 Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet Hakim was born in Bayonne, France. She has a Doctor of Letters degree from the Sorbonne, where she taught until her appointment as Professor at the University of Bordeaux where she currently teaches history of music and analysis. She studied with Susan Landale, Marie-Claire Alain, and Jean Langlais, and continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, particularly with Rolande Falcinelli. There she obtained Prizes in organ, improvisation, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, instrumentation, and orchestration. She is also Licenciate Performer in organ from the Trinity College of Music in London. She was awarded first prizes in organ and improvisation at the international competitions of Rennes, Beauvais, St. Alban, and Second Prize in interpretation at Chartres. Currently she is Titular Organist of the Cavaille-Coll organ of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris.
For the opening of the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists 2000, at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, she premiered with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra the vibrant Seattle Concerto by her husband, Naji Hakim.
As a musicologist, she is interested more particularly in French and Spanish organ from the XVIth to the XVIIth centuries and has been involved in several research projects at the Sorbonne, the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, the University of Bordeaux and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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