Thomas Ospital
About this Artist
Titulaire of the grand organ at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris and Professor of Organ Interpretation and Harmony at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), Thomas Ospital is a young artist who has quickly earned a place among the world’s finest concert organists.
He is a laureate of numerous competitions, receiving First Prize at the 2009 International Competition of Organ in Zaragoza, Spain; the Duruflé Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2012 International Organ Competition “Grand Prix de Chartres”; and Second Prize at the 2013 Toulouse International Organ Competition. In May 2014 he took the Grand Prize Jean-Louis Florentz and the Audience Prize at the International Organ Competition of Angers under the direction of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in November 2014 he was awarded Second Prize, Audience Prize, and the Florentz Prize at the International Organ Competition in Chartres.
Ospital is equally at home performing as a solo recitalist or with choir or orchestra. He is also eager to perpetuate the art of improvisation in all of its forms, including the accompaniment of silent films. His performances have taken him throughout Europe, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. He has also performed in Russia, Australia, and North America, where in 2012 he served for six months as Young Artist in Residence at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France in New Orleans.
Born in 1990, Thomas Ospital began his musical studies at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Bayonne, France, completing his studies with Esteban Landart in 2008. From 2008 to 2015 he was a student at the Paris Conservatory, where he earned First Place prizes in organ, improvisation, harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. His teachers at the Paris Conservatory included Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre, László Fassang, Isabelle Duha, Pierre Pincemaille, and Jean-François Zygel.
Ospital currently serves as Titular Organist of the largest pipe organ in France: the Grand Organ at Saint-Eustache in Paris. He took up the post in 2015, succeeding Jean Guillou. From 2016 to 2019 he served as the first Organist in Residence at Radio France. He is also Professor of Organ Interpretation alongside Olivier Latry (appointed 2021) and Professor of Harmony (appointed 2017) at CNSMDP.