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His work on the arrangement of works of Gustav Mahler has attracted interest from renowned artists and received encouragement from the Gustav Mahler Society in Budapest and Vienna. In addition to the work arrangements and compositions "classic", Serge Ollive is passionate about the composition from images, and works with the young director Mika Koudero for whom he signed the music for the short film "A6.", and Geoffroy Koeberlé that for "L'histoire d'une mère". A part of his work is published by Trumph and by Lighthouse music publications. |
Serge Ollive has studied conducting with Jenö Rehak, Arie Van Beek in Clermont-Ferrand (France), Uros LAJOVIC (University of Music and Visual Arts, Vienna - Austria), and Michael Dittrich (Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna - Austria).
Specialist music of Gustav Mahler, his large repertoire also allows him to conduct Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Puccini, Verdi, Beethoven ...
Born in 1977, Serge Ollive began his musical studies in 1995 at the National Conservatory of Marseille (France) where he studied organ in classes of Annick Chevalier-Naddéo and André Rossi (improvisation).
Between 1999 and 2000, he won his first prizes in harmony, counterpoint, and organ.
From 1997 to 2007, he was one of the most faithful servant of the Grand Organ in the Cathedral of Gap (France). He gave many concerts at this instrument and is still regularly invited to the summer season.
Since 1998, he performs regularly at numerous festivals, both as a soloist with orchestra or choir. Today, he has played over 300 concerts in France (Marseille, Sisteron, Valence, Montélimar Grignan, Narbonne, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer, St Omer, Gap, Lyon ...) and also in Germany, Switzerland , Italy, Austria and Hungary.
From 2003 to 2007, he was the Music Director of the Youth Orchestra of Provence-Alpes Gap.
In 2006, he founded the vocal ensemble "Cantabile" with which he devoted himself to sacred music of Duruflé (Requiem) Liszt (Via Crucis), Fauré (Requiem) ...
" Avec une technique transcendante, un art génial de la registration et des architectures sonores, [...] Serge Ollive a prouvé ses immenses talents musicaux. Surdoué, oui sûrement, et dans l'absolu un immense musicien, sans aucun doute. "
Le Dauphiné Libéré
" Serge Ollive a impressionné par sa maîtrise "
La tribune
" Please accept my deepest thanks for the magnificent artistic works for organ you've made in these creative transcriptions - some of the finest I have ever come across "
J.David Hart, American Guild of Organists
"Cette musique, si inspirée et délicate, j'ai eu un immense plaisir à l'interpréter. Le public a senti ce vent frais, "français", qui vient de l'autre côté de la planète"
Masaé Gimbayashi-Barbotte, pianiste (à propos des "9 esquisses" pour piano)
"Sans doute l'une de mes plus belles rencontres artistiques. La musique de Serge vous porte, vous transporte. Son secret : La passion.
Un artiste avec un grand A."
(Mika Koudero, scnénariste-réalisateur)
" La passion et le talent de l'organiste Serge Ollive ont donné à la Toccata de Duruflé une dimension qui restera longtemps gravée dans les mémoires "
Le Dauphiné Libéré