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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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