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Anneleen Lenaerts

December 13, 2017
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The harmony she produces touches everyone directly…the music is hers as if she were speaking. Everything appears effortless: whether in most virtuoso transitions or moments of the greatest delicacy, she takes the time to make every note speak…

Still aged only 23, the Belgian harpist Anneleen Lenaerts is making a name for herself as one of the finest young harpists of today. Her extraordinary talent made her perform all over Europe to great acclaim. Her harp playing is known for its colourful and warm sound, perfect timing and deep musical expression. In December 2010 Anneleen was appointed Principal Harp of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Anneleen started playing the harp at the age of 9 with Lieve Robbroeckx and worked with her continuously for nine years. She studied further with Isabelle Perrin in Paris and Jana Bouskova at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, graduating from everywhere with the highest distinction. Anneleen also studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue at the Brussels Conservatory.

From the very beginning Anneleen showed great musical talent and started winning an impressive amount of prizes in international harp competitions at a very young age: Concours International de Harpe Felix Godefroid, Concours International de Harpe et Orchestre, International Harp Competition Gödöllö, Josef Reinl Wettbewerb, USA International Harp Competition, Concurso Internacional de Arpa Arpista Ludovico and in 2005 the prestigious Grand Prix International Lily Laskine in France, where she also obtained the prizes for the best interpretation of Bach’s Chaconne and for the compulsory work of Karol Beffa. In 2009 she was a prizewinner in the Internationaler
Wettbewerb der ARD München where she also won the audience prize. Anneleen has been awarded several times for her remarkable results. The Flemish government honoured her with the YoTaM Prize. She was also awarded ‘le Prix Culturel International de la Jeunesse’ by the governor of Basse and Haute Normandy ant the Cultural Commission of Lions Club Deauville, the Prize of the Artistic Foundation Mathilde E. Horlait-Dapsens, the Prize Lunssens and Van Straelen and she became a laureate of the ‘Fondation Groupe Populaire’ in Paris in 2010. She has given solo recitals all through Europe and was repeatedly praised for her simplicity, musicality and virtuosity. She has made her debut in prestigious halls such as the Wigmore Hall London, the Salle Gaveau Paris, the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg,…
Anneleen has performed as a soloist with well-known orchestras in Belgium and elsewhere, such as the Mozarteum Orchester, and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, …

Eddy Vanoosthuyse

December 13, 2017
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Eddy Vanoosthuyse (1959, Kortrijk, Belgium) is the solo clarinetist at the Brussels Philharmonic/Flemish Radio Orchestra and professor clarinet at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Throughout the years, Vanoosthuyse has built a solid international career, as he is performing worldwide and is scheduled regularly at international festivals. Because of his passionate dedication to modern music, he is in contact with many of the most notable composers of his time including: John Corigliano, Olivier Messiaen, Alfred Prinz, Dirk Brossé, Scott McAllister, Jan Van der Roost, Boudewijn Buckinx, Willy Soenen, Raoul De Smet, Luc Brewaeys, David Loeb, and Wim Henderickx. Many of these composers have either dedicated works to him, or asked him to perform their new oeuvre. His performance of the clarinet concerto (Belgian premiere) of the American composer and Oscar winner, John Corigliano, was praised by the composer and press. His love for chamber music is emphasized by his frequent performances with several outstanding string quartets such as the Vilnius Quartet, Simon Bolivar Quartet, Danèl Quartet, Chile Quartet, and Ciurlionis Quartet, resulting in his having performed the Quintet of Mozart more than 50 times. In 2009, Eddy Vanoosthuyse founded his own chamber ensemble. The basis for which is formed by the clarinet with a string quartet. In addition to this new ensemble, he created a trio together with Vitaly Samoshko (first laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano, 1999) and Michael Kugel (viola). Eddy Vanoosthuyse gives masterclasses and is a guest professor at numerous conservatories and universities all over the world

Stephan Pas

December 13, 2017
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Stephan Pas studied clarinet and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. He continued his studies in Germany at the Musikhochschule Trossingen with Walter Hügler and was privately coached by Alois Springer. He attended masterclasses with Hans Graf (Mozarteum Salzburg), Yuiji Yuasa (Musikhochschule Wien) and Jorma Panula. Stephan is the founder and conductor of “Ensemble Contours” and the “Alban Berg Ensemble” which perform contemporary repertoire and for which he has also written orchestrations. He conducted the Kammerphilharmonie Budweis (CZ) and theKammerorchester der Schumann Akademie, Leipzich. His CD productions include Rameau’s opera Les Indes Galantes and El Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, a songbook from 1399, in a new arrangement for vocal and instrumental ensemble. Stephan is an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary Dutch repertoire, which resulted in a cd with orchestral songs of the dutch composer Anna Cramer (2010).

Màtè Szücs

December 13, 2017
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Màtè Szücs was born into a musical family in Debrecen in Hungary in 1978, where he started his violin studies with Zs. Szesztay. He was eleven when he won the Special Prize of the Hungarian Violin Competition for Young Artists and shortly after he won the First Prize of the Violin Competition of Szeged (with Prof. F. Szecs di) and the First Prize for the Best Sonata Duo of the Hungarian chamber music Competition. Màtè was seventeen when he changed from the violin to the viola. He graduated from the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Brussels (with Prof. Ervin Schiffer) and in Antwerp (Prof. Leo de Neve) with the highest distinction, and undertook a period of further study at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo (Prof. Ervin Schiffer) where he obtained his diploma with the highest distinction. Màtè won First Prize for Viola at the International Violin and Viola Competition in Liège in Belgium, and was also a fi nalist at the International Viola Competition “Jean Françaix” in Paris and is a Laureate of the International Music Competition “Tenuto” in Brussels. Màtè was and is a member of various chamber ensembles such as the Con Spirito Piano Quartett, Mendelssohn Ensemble, the Trio Dor and the Enigma Ensemble. Formerly holding the position of solo viola player in various prestigious orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, he is currently solo viola player of both the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a teacher at the Conservatory in Saarbrücken, and since the summer of 2006 he is the professor at the “Thy Masterclass” chamber music summer course in Denmark. Màtè plays regularly as a soloist in Europe. Since February 2010 he is appointed 1st solo viola of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Freddy Arteel

December 13, 2017
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Freddy Arteel, one of Europe’s fi nest clarinettists, has performed throughout the world as soloist and chamber musician for more than four decades. Until his retirement in 2000 he served as principal soloist of the renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, now known as “deFilharmonie”. He also taught clarinet at the “Lemmensinstituut” in Louvain and the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. During the course of his career he has given master classes in Canada, England, France, the Netherlands and Germany, has been a guest-teacher at the University of North Carolina USA and the “Cours International de Musique in Morges, Switzerland. Freddy was the fi rst to organize the International Clarinet Society in Europe, an annual event taking place in Ghent. He is the founder of the J.C. Denner Clarinet Choir and the chamber music ensemble Contrasts. He has made many recordings for both CD, LP, and also Television. This CD was produced at the request of former students as a way to honor Freddy on his 70th birthday, and to create a lasting legacy for Freddy’s long and distinguished career. Played as a soloist with the following orchestra: “De Philharmonie Antwerpen”, “Nationaal orkest van Belgie”, the“Kamerorkest van de Nederlandse Radio”, “I Fiammingi”, “L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande”, “The Slovak State Philharmonic”

Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort

December 13, 2017
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Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort was born on September 26, 1984, in Mechelen, Belgium. Liebrecht obtained his master degree for piano with the greatest distinction from the Brussels Royal Conservatory, where he studied with Jan Michiels. Thanks to the support of the Robus Foundation, Fontys, Fulbright and the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Liebrecht has perfected himself during the past few years, with Ton Demmers and Jan Wijn in the Netherlands, with Elissó Wirssaladze in Germany and with Menahem Pressler and Russel Sherman in the United States.

In his youth, Liebrecht was rewarded several piano prizes: he became a laureate of almost all important national piano competitions. Internationally, he obtained first prizes in the ‘Bach’, ‘Fontys’, ‘Kaufmann’ and ‘YPF’ competitions, and he was also laureate of the ‘International Steinway Competition’ and the ‘International Competition for young Musicians’. In 2007, he became a laureate in the prestigious ‘Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition’, in which he was also awarded the two prizes of the listeners of Belgium’s two most important radio and television channels, the French speaking channel RTBF and the Dutch speaking channel VRT.

Even though Liebrecht is still a young man, he already has a great deal of experience on the concert stage.

At the age of only 17, he played for the Belgian royals and in 2007 he accompanied them during their official visit to Ireland. He performed at festivals organized by renowned musicians like Philippe Herreweghe and Walter Boeykens, and played during the Flanders Festival, the Festival of Wallonia and ‘Les Sommets du Classique’ in Crans-Montana (Switzerland).

In the fall of 2007 he was the exclusive “classical star” at the famous Antwerp ‘Night of the Proms’, where he performed twelve times for a sold out ‘Sportpaleis’, accompanied by the ‘Il Novecento” orchestra conducted by Robert Groslot.

Liebrecht has given concerts in many of Belgium’s most prestigious venues: the Center for Fine Arts (Bozar), Flagey Concert Hall and La Monnaie in Brussels, the Singel and the Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall in Antwerp, the Capitole and the Bijloke Concert Hall in Ghent, the Concertgebouw in Bruges and the Casino in Knokke. Abroad, he has performed on prominent stages in a.o. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, South-Africa, Canada and the United States.

He has worked with conductors such as Callegari, Deneckere, Fritzsch, González, Goodwin, Herrewhege, Judd, Levi, Matchavariani, Van den Broeck, Varga, Vermeulen, Willens and Zollman, accompanied by orchestras  like the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, the Chamber Orchestra of The Hague, arc-en-ciel, the Kölner Akademie, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Flemish Radio Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Belgium in concertos by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Prokofieff and Rachmaninoff.

Liebrecht can often be heard on radio and television, at home and abroad.

In the autumn of 2009, his second album, dedicated to Robert Schumann, was released by Aliud Records.

During the upcoming cultural season, Liebrecht’s main musical partners will be a.o. Yossif Ivanov, Roel Dieltiens, Justus Grimm, Aldo Baerten, Roeland Hendrikx, Jef Neve and Severin von Eckardstein.