Jean-Baptiste Robin is widely regarded as one of today’s most prominent French concert organists and composers.

He serves as Organist of the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles, joining a prestigious lineage of celebrated French organists. He is also Professor of Organ and Composition at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Versailles and, beginning in 2025, Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

His extensive performance career has taken him to 20 European countries, Russia, Israel, Asia (China, Japan, and South Korea), Canada, and nearly half of the U.S. states. He has appeared at renowned international venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Maison Symphonique in Montréal, the Madrid National Auditorium, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Philharmonie and Auditorium de Radio France in Paris, Woolsey Hall in New Haven, the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, and Gulangyu Organ Museum.

In Europe, he has been featured in leading international festivals in Haarlem, Toulouse-les-Orgues, Madrid, Dresden, Porto, Bucharest, and San Sebastián, among many others. In France, he has performed in landmark churches such as Notre-Dame, Saint-Sulpice, and Saint-Eustache in Paris, and in major cathedrals including Cologne, Geneva, Porto, Monaco, and Poitiers, where he served from 2000 to 2010 as organist of the world-famous François-Henri Clicquot organ.

As a master teacher, he has been Artist in Residence at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and at Yale University in the United States. He has taught at the International Summer Academy for Organists in Haarlem, the Leipzig Summer Academy, and has given masterclasses worldwide, including at the Eastman School of Music (USA) and the Beijing Central Conservatory (China). He has served on juries for many of the world’s most prestigious international organ competitions, including the Canadian International Organ Competition (Montréal), St. Albans, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Gottfried Silbermann competitions.

He has recorded the complete works of Jehan Alain (Brilliant Classics), Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Marchand (Triton), and François Couperin as well as his own compositions. These recordings have been consistently praised by music critics and have won numerous prizes in France and England, including several Golden Diapason, the Editor's Choice by Gramophone, the Charles Cros Academy and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Vierteljahresliste. In 2023, his last recording of his works was awarded a "Choc de Classica".

Robin has composed over forty works, ranging from solo pieces to large-scale orchestral scores. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, and the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, under conductors including Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop, Laurent Petitgirard, Roberto Forés Veses, and Jean Deroyer. His collaborators include François Salque and Xavier Phillips (cello), David Guerrier and Romain Leleu (trumpet), François Chaplin (piano), and numerous organists worldwide. His powerful and inspired music expresses, shows, tells, and gives to imagination... by the use of symmetrical modes of his own, and called reflective... It lays the foundations of a large and stable universe and invents a singular and immediately recognizable color." (Michel Gribenski). In 2018 he won the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs in Radio France, in 2017 he was awarded composer of the year from the Belgium Radio.

In 2025, he has composed a concerto for organ and large orchestra and new organ works for the St. Albans International Organ Competition, and will embark on his first concert tour in Australia.

A laureate of the Lagardère Foundation and the Banque Populaire Group Foundation, Robin has also received the George Enescu Prize (2009) and the Hervé Dugardin Prize (2016) from SACEM, as well as the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts (2023).

He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, earning seven Premiers Prix and two postgraduate diplomas in theory and organ performance. His organ teachers included Marie-Claire Alain, Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, and Louis Robilliard, and he studied composition with George Benjamin at King’s College London.

Jean Baptiste Robin is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

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«Musicians of this caliber are uncommon.»
Aurore Leger, Classica (July 2020)

«His musical qualities, both as a performer and as a composer, are no longer to be praised: sensitivity, attention to detail, concern for song, an intimate understanding of writing and a strong sense of dramaturgy.»
Aurore Leger, Classica (May 2020)

« Jean-Baptiste Robin, performer and composer (...) the Mechanic Fantasy of this very refine neoclassical composer of today reveals an evocative force extremely personal. »
Paul de Louit, Diapason (May 2017)

« (...) The inspiration of his works is immediately perceptible by the listener, who can then make his own an emotion that touches very deeply. One remains captivated by the climates, like those of Jehan Alain, whom the author knows well, and from which he draws inspiration for his benefit. The ends of pieces are, in this way, are magical, sometimes suspended or instantly interrupted. »
Frédéric Munoz, Resmusica - The Recording of the mont May 2017

« We are dealing with the truly extraordinary. Robin plays with daring, verve and with unflinching attention to colouristic detail. The result is a triumph.» Choir & Organ Magazine July/August 2015

« Robin proves himself to be a master orchestrator in the transcriptions of piano works. Vivid colors abound in symphonic-inspired transcriptions of Debussy, Albeniz, and Bartok. His approach is also effective in Liszt's Prelude and Fugue; his kaleidoscopic registrational color is neither excessive nor distracting, but is rather symphonic in scope and dramatically engaging. Robin's artistry is based on his dramatically incisive approach to rhythm, an expansive and lyrical approach to phrasing, and an approach to registration based on symphonic color and grandeur. »
Michael Unger, American Record Guide (May/June 2015)

« This is big-organ performance at its most expressive and tasteful, a sonic punch that raises goosebumps. »
John Terauds, Musical Toronto (january, 2014)

« His own composition is a significant addition to the cosmic end of the scale of organ compositions. Thrilling, driving, demandung, amusingf, and energetic-this music has to be heard to be believed. Astounding ! Thank you, Jean-Baptiste ! »
Jonathan Dimmock, The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians in USA (June 2014)

« Like Virgil Fox, Robin wants to popularize the organ by performing music on it that might already be familiar in other versions, and that makes an immediate impression. Robin is respectful of the music. He does nothing silly or tasteless with it.
He is an imaginative player, with a flair for drama, but he doesn't allow the music to turn into a vehicle for his ego. »
Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine (May 2014)

« Robin studied Alain's complete organ works in detail with Marie-Claire; thus he has direct in-depth knowledge and experience that inform his performances. He possesses abundant technical facility in addition to expressive, poetic musicality and imagination, all of which are necessary to successfully perform this music.
Each generation brings new, fresh ideas to the standard repertoire, which much of Alain's music has become. These exciting recordings by Jean-Baptiste Robin are arguably the finest of the current generation. »
James Hildreth, The American Organist (may 2013)

« I have never heard a performance of the Trois Danses [by Jehan Alain] to equal Robin's : by turns somber, poetic, dramatic and even frenzied, it makes this suite that so often sounds awkward come alive as a unique masterpiece. »
Michael Fox, The Diapason (december 2012)