LES OMBRES DU FANTÔME

ROBERT SHOLL

Robert Sholl teaches at The Royal Academy of Music and the University of West London. His has written extensively on twentieth-century music, including Messiaen Studies, and James MacMillan Studies, ed. with George Parsons (both Cambridge University Press, 2007 and 2021), Contemporary Music and Spirituality ed. with Sander van Maas (Routledge, 2017), and The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice (Bloomsbury, 2021), and on musical improvisation to film (published in Princeton’s journal Perspectives of New Music); he is the editor of Olivier Messiaen in Context (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and is currently completing a biography of Messiaen for Reaktion’s ‘Critical Lives’ series. Robert studied in Melbourne, then in Paris (with Olivier Latry, and at the Sorbonne, Paris IV), and finally in London (at King’s College). In 2016-17 he played all of Messiaen’s organ works at Arundel Cathedral, and he is currently playing the six organ symphonies of Louis Vierne, the complete works Maurice Duruflé, together with major works of Charles Tournemire (with songs and chamber music) at Arundel. He has recorded live improvisations to film on the organ and piano, available on YouTube, including the ‘Unmasking scene’ from The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg5f5gvQFO0. He has given recitals at the St John’s Smith Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and twice at the Madeleine and at Notre-Dame de Paris.