Barbara Cornet is a young French Polish organist. In 2024, she was awarded the Schoonbroodt Prize from the Roi Baudoin Foundation. This biennal prize rewards a young and talented organist and contributes to developing careers.
She was the laureate of both Fondation Safran, and organ scholar of the Belgian organ maker Hippolyte Loret (1856) from Notre- Dame-du-Finistère church in Brussels for the year 2022-2023. In 2018, she received the young musician prize, attributed by the French-German Circle Deutsch Französische Gesellschaft from Fribourg in Brisgau.
Barbara Cornet studied at the Conservatoire royal of Bruxelles besides Benoît Mernier, and in France where she received advice from Eric Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste Robin, Marie-Ange-Leurent and Pierre-Yves Fleury.
In 2024 she graduated with the highest distinction in the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.
Barbara often performs during concerts, as a soloist or in ensembles: in Belgium, France and Poland. She played in the cathedrals of Chartres (Chartr’Estivales), Créteil, Besançon, at the Festival International d’Orgue d’Arbois, at the Festival Orgue en Ville, in Bruxelles (Lundi d’Orgue, Méditations d’orgue), in Leuven (Lunchconcert)…
Drawn to artistic creation and eager to explore other artistic disciplines, Barbara provides organ accompaniment for the show “Strano”, the latest production by Cirque Trottola, which is currently on tour in France and Europe.
Barbara is also the dedicatee of “Un arbre, par-dessus le toit, berce sa palme”, composed by Eric Lebrun and of “L’étoile du Berger”, an organ prelude by the composer Patrick Valls.