After studying organ, piano, musical analysis and composition at the Toulouse Conservatoire, Christopher Gibert went on to receive a premier prix with distinction in choral conducting. At the same time he graduated from the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès with a degree in musicology.

Organist for the past ten years of the sanctuary of Rocamadour, he is now in charge of the new organ of Saint-Sauveur. He is currently specialising in the religious works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a key figure in seventeenth century French music, at Paris-Sorbonne University, the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Boulogne Billancourt Early Music Centre. As a member of the Choeur Grégorien de Paris, he is deepening his knowledge of the Gregorian repertoire.

Choral conducting is undoubtedly Christopher Gibert’s greatest passion. With his two ensembles, the chamber choir Dulci Jubilo, created in 2013, and the ensemble La Pellegrina, formed at Rocamadour in 2016 and specialising in Baroque, he explores the possibilities of sound and different vocal combinations, as well as prosody and diction. He has conducted many productions at major festivals in southwest France (Toulouse les Orgues, Nuits Musicales en Armagnac, Cahors Organ Festival, Rocamadour Festival of Sacred Music) and in Grenoble and Brittany (as artistic director of the Festival des Chapelles at Carnac). The Charpentier Te Deum, the Fauré and Duruflé Requiem and the Poulenc and Pergolesi Stabat Mater settings are among his favorite works and, more generally, he is very keen on the early Contemporary music repertoires.

Christopher Gibert developed a Passion for composition at an early age. The sources of inspiration for his works, written essentially for vocal ensemble, range from Gregorian chant to the harmonic world of Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel. His penchant for asymmetrical rhythms gives his music a vigorous quality. He has composed several works for the Rocamadour Festival of Sacred Music: Salve regina (2013), Stabat Mater (2015) for choir and orchestra, first performed by the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the chamber choir Dulci Jubilo and the Thomas Ospital, and Memorare, which was premièred by the Ensemble vocal Exosphere of Strasbourg in 2016. His compositions have sparked much interest among vocal ensembles. Souvenez-vous (2012) is dedicated to the Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Charles, Versaommes; his setting of Ascendit Deus (2016) was written for the Maîtrise de Toulouse.