Alma Bettencourt

Born in 2004, Alma Bettencourt began playing the piano at the age of 5. In 2014, she joined the piano class of Elena Rozanova at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) while also starting organ studies with Éric Lebrun in 2016 at the CRR of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, where she obtained her Diplôme d’Études Musicales (DEM) in 2019. From the 2019/2020 academic year, she also studied piano under Romano Pallottini at the same institution, earning her DEM in 2021. In the 2020/2021 academic year, she was admitted to the class of Olivier Latry and Thomas Ospital at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, joining Emmanuel Strosser’s piano class two years later.

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Since 2016, Alma Bettencourt has performed in recitals and collective concerts in venues such as Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Auditorium of the CRR, Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire and Saint-Nicolas churches), Paris (Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingt, Saint-Louis-en-l’Île, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Pentemont Temple, Danish Church, Saint-Séverin), as well as in Fouesnant, Chennevières, Cunault, Montereau, Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Cherbourg, Quimperlé, Briançon, Plougastel-Daoulas, and Lannion. She premiered works by Michel Boédec, including Aleppian Circle, which was dedicated to her.

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In 2018, she won the L’Orgue des jeunes competition organized by the André-Marchal Academy. In 2021, she participated in the recording of Olivier Messiaen’s complete organ works at Toul Cathedral and performed at the composition competition held by Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris. In October 2022, she was a guest at the Toulouse les Orgues festival.