Jean-Michel Sanchez
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Jean-Michel Sanchez (born 28 June 1969 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône) is a contemporary French art historian, organist, improviserand musicologist.
Biography
Jean-Michel Sanchez holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Aix-Marseille I. His thesis is entitled Les buffets d'orgues du Sud-Est de la France de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la Grande Guerre. A specialist in sacred art, he was lecturer at the University of Provence (2005–2011) and currently teaches at the University of Free Time of Aix-Marseille and at the Dominican International University (Université Domuni). His research focuses on the architecture and decoration of French, Italian and Spanish churches (17th-19th centuries), but also on the whole of their contents: chasublery, goldsmithery, art of campanology, organs, liturgical furniture ... He has been a member of the "Centre International d’Études sur le Linceul de Turin" (Paris) since 1999. He has curated several exhibitions of sacred art (abbaye de Saint-Victor, Maison de l'Artisanat et des Métiers d'Art, Musée de Château-Gombert, Marseille).
As musicologist, he was titular organist of the Chartreux church in Marseille (1985–2006). He is currently co-organist of the church of the Mission de France in Marseille since 1994. His research in this field concerns the role of the organ in the liturgy and the evolution of professions of church musician from the Council of Trent to the Second Vatican Council. He has collaborated in the restoration of several historical organs (Saint-Maximin, La Brigue, Saorge, Tende, Rozay-en-Brie, Barjols) and has given recitals in France, Italy and Spain.
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