TOULOUSE LES ORGUES

For three decades now, the Toulouse les Orgues International Festival has been celebrating a rich, varied, and precious heritage, showcasing it throughout France and attracting organists from around the world thanks to its exceptional collection of instruments. For about ten days, the Festival transforms Toulouse into the center of the world for organ lovers!

The Festival constantly evolves and reinvents itself: bringing together enthusiasts while attracting new audiences, building bridges between the centuries-old repertoire of an instrument that seems frozen in time, almost sacred, and contemporary—even experimental—music. The organ is undeniably an instrument for sonic experimentation, a synthesizer ahead of its time, and a vehicle for conveying emotions.

A twelve-day journey through classical, Baroque, symphonic, Occitan, meditative, and modern aesthetics, bringing together organists with other musicians and featuring several stars as well as promising up-and-coming artists.

A program conceived and tailored down to the smallest detail with one goal in mind: to make the magnificent vaults housing the organs resonate in October, just as much as the hearts of festivalgoers!

Check out the full program on the festival’s website!