Education
In 1958, Thiry graduated with a first prize in organ performance at the Paris Conservatoire (organ class of Rolande Falcinelli).
music educator musician organist
In 1958, Thiry graduated with a first prize in organ performance at the Paris Conservatoire (organ class of Rolande Falcinelli).
French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote about him: «Louis Thiry is an extraordinary organist. All those who have heard and all those who will hear Louis Thiry can but admire him.»
He has taken part in many festivals all over the world, including Lille Besançon, Festival estival de Paris, Haarlem, the Messiaen Festival in Moscow, Venice, Palermo, Madrid, Vienna, Geneva, Düsseldorf, Koln, Karlsruhe, Luxembourg, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Salzbourg, Oslo, Cambridge, Noumea (Nouvelle Calédonie), Taipeh (Republic of China). James Thomas, conductor of the Cambridge Choral Society and Director of Music of Street Edmundsbury Cathedral is one of his former students.
In addition, he was honored with the Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite.