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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.

Johan Brouwer

December 13, 2017
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Johan Brouwer (1943) studied organ under Wim van Beek and music theory under Frans van Eeden at the Groningen conservatory, then harpsichord at the Amsterdam conservatory. After his soloist exam he took up further studies with Gustav Leonhardt. Johan Brouwer followed masterclasses by Ton Koopman, René Saorgin and Jos van Immerseel. Johan Brouwer has given concerts in the Netherlands, France, Portugal, England, Sweden and Germany and as leader/harpsichordist formed part of the Groningen baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum, concentrating not just on the great traditional works of the baroque but also on unknown work from the 17th and 18th centuries. He also worked for a long time as conductor of the Winschoten Chamber Choir, with which he performed much 17th century music together with the Collegium Musicum Groningen. Johan Brouwer has made various CDs, including a CD with his collection of harpsichords, built by David Rubio, a CD with radio recordings from ’73 and ’83 made by the NCRV on the Hinsz organs of Midwolda and Appingedam and 2 CDs in the book ‘35 Years of Collegium Musicum Groningen’, in which he can be heard as continuo player and conductor. 2012 saw the release of a CD in which works are played on the famous Arp Schnitger positiv (1695) in Nieuw-Scheemda and on his Italian harpsichord, built by David Rubio (1977) after Giovanni Giusti (1679).

Duo Switch

December 13, 2017
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The initial aim of Switch was to discover the existing repertoire for this combination; now, new works by talented young composers are being added. The name Switch was adopted from a piece of the same name written for the duo by Alejandro Castaños. The duo’s first concert was in the Arnold Schönberg concert hall in The Hague in March 2004, when the work Switch was premièred and Dmaathen by Iannis Xenakis was performed. The duo reached the semifinal of the Vriendenkrans competition of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. They played at the KEN festival in Glasgow (2004), won the Link competition in Tilburg (2005), and reached the semifinal of the prestigious Gaudeamus concours (2007).

Trio Dor

December 13, 2017
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The Belgian Trio Dor was founded in 1992 by the Roumania-Belgian clarinettist Vlad Weverbergh and has since toured through Belgium, Rumania, Sweden, The Netherlands, South-Africa, Austria (with a highlight in the Viennese Konzerthaus) and the United Kingdom, where they performed for the BBC. In 2006 the ensemble recharged with new strength on alto, accordion and double bass. The own arrangements and interpretations are characterised and supported by interaction, improvisation and experiment; basically with a delight for playing. The Trio Dor repertoire rests on the personality and great virtuosity of each one of the four musicians. The specific and unique dynamics of the ensemble, which radiates an intense musical fun, guarantees a typical, inimitable sound. Energetic and inspiring.