Naji HAKIM

NAJI Subhy Paul Irénée HAKIM (Lebanon,1955) studied organ (J. Langlais) and conducting (E. Aïello), and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris harmony (R. Boutry), counterpoint (J. C. Henry), fugue (M. Bitsch), organ (R. Falcinelli), analysis (J. Castérède) and orchestration (S. Nigg), where he was awarded seven first prizes. 

He is a licentiate teacher in organ (Trinity College of Music in London). Hakim won ten first prizes at international organ and composition competitions. In 1991 he was awarded the Prix André Caplet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 2009 the Premier Prix du Concours de Musique Sacrée de la Cathédrale de Monaco. 

He was an organist of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris from 1985 to 1993, after which he became an organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris, in succession to O. Messiaen (1993-2008). 

He was professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt (1988-2019). He is visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, member of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae in Rome and Doctor honoris causa of the Pontifical University Saint-Esprit of Kaslik in Lebanon.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI awarded Hakim Insigne crucis Augustae Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for his excellent commitment and work for the benefit of the Church and the Holy Father. His works include instrumental music (organ, flute, bassoon, horn, trumpet, harp, guitar, violin, piano), symphonic music (Les Noces de l'Agneau, Hymne de l'Univers, Ouverture Libanaise, Påskeblomst, Augsburger Symphonie, five organ concertos, a violin concerto, a piano concerto), and vocal music (oratorio Saul de Tarse, cantata Phèdre, Magnificat and four masses).