Samuel Liégeon, born in 1984 in Besançon, has forged a unique career at the intersection of music and the visual arts. Trained at the Paris Conservatoire, he was awarded seven first prizes and three master’s degrees, demonstrating exceptional mastery of musical disciplines. A laureate of numerous international competitions (Haarlem, Chartres, Leipzig, Strasbourg, Münster), he was appointed in 2009, following a competitive selection process, as titular organist of the Great Organ at Saint-Pierre de Chaillot in Paris, a parish in the Champs-Élysées district at the heart of the Colline des Arts.
As artist-in-residence in New Orleans in 2012–2013, he developed a renewed approach to creativity, inspired by improvisation, jazz and American painting. Alongside his musical career, he pursues a visual art practice closely linked to his musical world. Moving away from figurative art in favour of poetic abstraction, he explores rhythm, colour and movement as echoes of musical expression.
Internationally renowned, Samuel Liégeon performs regularly in Europe and the United States, both as an organist and as a painter, in projects that blend music, visual arts and cinema. A sought-after teacher, he has been teaching analysis, composition, orchestration and improvisation since 2013 at several French higher education institutions: Pôle Sup’ 93 in Aubervilliers-La Coureneuve, the Conservatoire and Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de Lorraine in Metz.
Based in Le Havre since 2022, he has established a workshop and a creative studio there. Spanning painting and music, his work reflects a constant quest for dialogue between space, light and sound.
