French composer and organist Jean-Baptiste Robin has established an international career as a performer, composer, and teacher. Equally recognized for his work as a concert artist and for a distinguished catalogue of original compositions, he appears regularly at leading concert halls, festivals, cathedrals, and universities throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.

Robin is Organist of the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles, one of France's most distinguished musical appointments. He also serves as Professor of Organ and Composition at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Versailles and as Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

An internationally sought-after recitalist, Robin has performed in many of the world's most prestigious venues, including Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Berlin Philharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Maison symphonique de Montréal, Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, the Forbidden City Concert Hall, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
He has also appeared in many of Europe's most celebrated churches and cathedrals, including Notre-Dame de Paris, Cologne Cathedral, Geneva Cathedral, Barcelona Cathedral, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, and Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montréal. A frequent guest artist in North America, he has completed more than twenty concert tours throughout the United States.

Alongside his performing career, Robin has gained international recognition as a composer. His catalog includes more than sixty works, ranging from solo instrumental music to large-scale orchestral, choral, and concertante works. His music has been conducted by Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop, and Laurent Petitgirard, and performed by ensembles including the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Maîtrise de Radio France, and distinguished artists such as Sarah Nemtanu, François Chaplin, Xavier Phillips, François Salque, Romain Leleu, and David Guerrier.
Recent highlights include the premiere of his Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in 2025 by organist Shen Yuan and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, and the premiere of his Solemn Mass for choir and two organs at Westminster Cathedral in London in 2026.

A dedicated teacher, Robin is regularly invited to present masterclasses and residencies at leading institutions around the world, including the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Hochschule für Musik Leipzig, the International Organ Academy Haarlem, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. He previously served as Distinguished Artist in Residence at Yale University and as Visiting Artist in Residence at Oberlin Conservatory and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Robin is also a frequent juror for major international organ competitions, including the Canadian International Organ Competition, the St. Albans International Organ Competition, the Gottfried Silbermann International Organ Competition in Dresden, and the Buxtehude International Organ Competition in Lübeck.
His acclaimed discography includes approximately fifteen recordings devoted both to the great organ repertoire—including Jehan Alain, Felix Mendelssohn, François Couperin, and Louis Marchand—and to his own music. His recordings have received numerous distinctions, including several Diapason d'Or awards, the Académie Charles Cros Coup de cœur, and a Classica Choc award for his album Time Circles.
Robin studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he was awarded seven First Prizes, before pursuing advanced studies in composition with George Benjamin in London. He is the recipient of awards from the Fondation Lagardère, the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire, the George Enesco Prize and Hervé Dugardin Prize of SACEM, the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs, and the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Jean-Baptiste Robin's music is performed throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia and is published by Éditions Billaudot.


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)