GUIDE TO

early
MUSIC IN
BELGIUM
cOvEr IMaGE

16th century chansonnier

ms. IV 1274, fol. 4r
© KBR (Brussels) /
Alamire Digital Lab (Leuven)
GUIDE TO
EARLY MUSIC
IN BELGIUM
2020
GUIDE TO earlY MUSIC IN

Flanders Arts Institute

 CONTENTS

BELGIUM PART 1
THE ARTISTS

14 ENSEMBLES &
ORCHESTRAS
SINGERS
40 • Sopranos &
mezzo-sopranos
50 • Altos & countertenors
53 • Tenors
56 • Baritones & basses
INSTRUMENTALISTS
60 • Keyboard instruments
76 • String instruments
90 • Wind instruments
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ORGANISATIONS AND CONTEXT
STRUCTURES

CONCERT ORGANISATIONS 148 ABOUT

111 • Arts centres & CULTURAL POLICY
concert halls 149 • Flanders
114 • Festivals 150 • Wallonia-Brussels
117 • Festival associations Federation
151 • East Belgium
118 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS,
DOCUMENTATION CENTRES 152 FURTHER READING ON
AND LIBRARIES EARLY MUSIC IN BELGIUM
MUSIC EDUCATION
125 • Conservatories
128 • Postgraduate Education
129 • Universities
130 • Other
131 MEDIA
132 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
134 BOOKING AGENCIES
135 PUBLISHERS
136 RECORD COMPANIES
INSTRUMENT MAKERS
139 • Keyboard instruments
141 • String instruments
143 • Traditional instruments
144 • Wind instruments
145 • Apprenticeships
instrument building
 BELGIUM = FLANDERS + WALLONIA + BRUSSELS
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Belgium is a federal state in

preface

the heart of Europe, comprising

3 regions (Flemish region, the
Brussels-Capital Region and the
Walloon Region),
3 communities (Flemish, French
and German-speaking), and
4 language areas (Dutch,
French, and German and
Brussels as a bilingual area),
whose boundaries overlap.
Flanders is the northern,
Dutch-speaking part of Belgium,
and Wallonia the Southern,
French- and also German-
speaking part. Each community
is autonomous for matters such
as culture, education, media,…
and has its own institutions.
Brussels, capital of Belgium and
of Flanders as well, is home to
the European Parliament and
many international cultural
institutions. Its cultural policy
is taken in charge by the
institutions of the communities.

PREFACE

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On a map of the world Belgium being followed up by
looks smaller than a postage many younger musicians
stamp. But a felicitous turn of in their own right.
history has made this region
into a cross­roads of different This practical guide offers
cultures. This is why this region an introduction to people
is rich in creative talent and and organisations that are
over­flowing with cultural representative of the early
activities. For ages Flemish music scene in Belgium. We
artists have been delivering make no claim to be exhaustive,
outstanding quality and but an attempt has been made
reinvigorating the cultural to be as complete as possible
scene with a sur­prising sense by listing those who contribute
of innovation. Adriaan Willaert, most significantly to the
Johannes Ockeghem, Nicolas promotion of early music.
Gombert, Phillipus de Monte
and many more, the profound Stef Coninx —
influence that Flemish compos- Flanders Arts Institute
ers had on music throug­hout
the whole of Europe for some
two hundred years is
undeniable. —
For more profiles of musicians,
But today music thrives discographies, updates and further
information on various aspects of the
everywhere, with every city
Belgian (‘classical’) music scene as
boasting a diversity of concert well as a musicological approach to
halls or other interesting early music, please visit our website:
locations for concerts, festivals www.classics.flandersartsinstitute.be
and many small-scale initiatives.
Also in the field of early music
and historical performance
practice it is no coincidence
that Flanders has been cutting
edge, and still is. The movement
engendered by the pioneers is
Marnix De Cat Philippe Malfeyt graindelavoix © Koen Broos
a nocte temporis Mezzaluna © Adrian Brown Sofie Vanden Eynde
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THE ARTISTS

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The New Baroque Times
Ratas del viejo Mundo © Tomas Vandecasteele
Tom Devaere © Björn Comhaire Annelies Van Gramberen © Dirk Van de Velde
La Hispanoflamenca
Toshiyuki Shibata © Ayane Shindo

B'Rock © Mirjam Devriendt

Zefiro Torna © Denial Sefer

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Floris De Rycker © Joris Casaer Romina Lischka © Marisa Vranjes
 1.1. Anima Eterna Brugge
Ensembles Instrumental
& orchestras Renaissance - 20th century
Label Zig-Zag Territoires, Sony
Classical, Alpha Classics, Emergo
Classics, Channel Classics, Ricercar,
Harlekijn

Founded in 1987 by Jos van

Immerseel, Anima Eterna Brugge
is an internationally renowned
project orchestra based in
Bruges. The aim of Anima Eterna
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is to explore the original sound-

scapes in which composers have
lived, worked and created each
ensembles & orchestras

piece. Depending on the pro-

gramme, the orchestra ranges
from 7 to 80 musicians, with a
repertoire from Monteverdi to
Gershwin. Research, sourcing
period instruments and exten-
sive preparation precedes each
new project. Anima Eterna per-
forms as orchestra in residence
at Concertgebouw Brugge, and
as Ensemble Associé at the
opera of Dijon. The orchestra re-
corded over 50 CDs, its record-
ings are available on Spotify and
Apple Music.
—
Jos van Immerseel,artistic direction
+32 50 95 09 29
[email protected]
www.animaeterna.be

a nocte temporis
Vocal-instrumental
Renaissance - Baroque
Label Alpha Classics

After several years of activity as

a soloist with conductors such
as William Christie, Philippe
Herreweghe, Hervé Niquet, and
Christophe Rousset, Reinoud
Van Mechelen founded his

own ensemble in 2016. His

goal is to present a historically from the baroque to the
informed performance and romantic eras, with all possible
to emotionally touch a large respect for and knowledge
audience. In its relatively short of historical performance
existence, a nocte temporis practice. The starting point of
has played at the Opéra de their approach is not merely
Lille, Festival Radio France, musicological research, but
Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, rather musical experimentation.
Festival de Saintes, MA Festival, Founded in early 2011 as a late-
BOZAR, AMUZ, deSingel, Salle baroque quartet, their debut in
Gaveau, Muziekgebouw aan ’t Flanders soon led to invitations
IJ and Wigmore Hall. While it to perform in the Netherlands
started as a chamber music and France. Soon however, the

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ensemble with projects such need for a more flexible concept
as Erbarme dich, Pirame & Tisbé arose, one where the realization
and The Dubhlinn Gardens, a of a musical or aesthetic idea
nocte temporis grew into a became of greater importance
Baroque orchestra in November than a fixed group with a limited
2018, for Dumesny, haute-contre repertoire. Thus, Apotheosis
de Lully, the first part of the was born as a dynamic collective
trilogy around the ‘haute- on period instruments,
contre’ voice (in collaboration exploring repertoire ranging
with the Centre de Musique from chamber music and vocal
Baroque de Versailles and soloists conducted from the
AMUZ). The recordings of these harpsichord or pianoforte
programmes by label Alpha (Ensemble Apotheosis) to a
Classics were awarded prizes, larger baroque formation or a
such as CHOC de l’Année of full-scale symphonic orchestra
Classica and a Diapason d’Or. (Apotheosis Orchestra),
— presenting music from the 17th
Reinoud Van Mechelen, through to the 20th century.
artistic direction —
[email protected] Korneel Bernolet,artistic direction
www.anoctetemporis.org +32 486 92 63 18
Jonas De Roover,management [email protected]
+32 485 30 98 01 www.apotheosis-orchestra.weebly.com
[email protected]

Ausonia
Apotheosis Instrumental
Vocal-instrumental Baroque
Baroque - 20th century Label Hitasura Productions
Label Etcetera Records
 
Ausonia specialises in French
Apotheosis is a vocal- and German music, with a
instrumental collective of special focus on the role of
historically informed musicians the contemporary performer
led by harpsichordist- confronted with music from
conductor Korneel Bernolet. the 17th and 18th century. It
Their goal is to recreate music also represents a crossover
 between the unbroken, secular jazz guitarist and composer
tradition of Noh theatre and the Peter Verhelst were curious
recently rediscovered tradition to see how they could make
of Baroque music. Since 2001, their different musical worlds
Ausonia has consisted of meet. The ensemble writes
Frédérick Haas (harpsichord), its own songs and searches
James Munro (double bass) for unique interpretations
and Mira Glodeanu (violin), of the song repertoire. Their
surrounded by a team of artists music is inspired by classical
that varies according to the music, jazz, early music, French
programme. chanson, Jewish music, Arab
— music and avant-garde. Bel
Frédérick Haas,artistic direction Ayre gave concerts in Belgium,
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[email protected] the Netherlands, France and

www.ensemble-ausonia.org
Lithuania. The Neapolitan
ensembles & orchestras

Yann Olivier,agent
song project was performed
on the stages of Festival van
Vlaanderen, the yearly concert
BachPlus at the Royal Palace and Klara in
Vocal-instrumental
Baroque deSingel.
Label Etcetera Records, —
+32 485 14 42 03
Evil Penguin Classic
[email protected]
www.belayre.com
The Baroque ensemble
BachPlus was founded in 2010
by Bart Naessens. BachPlus has
performed at Concertgebouw B-Five
Vocal-instrumental
Bruges, AMUZ, Ghent Festival of Renaissance - 21st century
Flanders, at concert series in Label Coviello Classics
Bruges, Aalst and Aardenburg,
and elsewhere in Flanders and Renaissance consort music is
abroad. Their programmes focus at the heart of B-Five’s artistic
on the work of Johann Sebastian soul. The group also often
Bach, flanked and confronted performs contemporary music
with that of contemporaries or composed for them. B-Five
predecessors. BachPlus has has been on the stages of
released three CDs. AMUZ, BOZAR, NDR Hamburg,
—
Fränkischer Sommer Nürnberg,
Bart Naessens,artistic direction
+32 476 30 59 21
MA Festival, Festival Alte
[email protected] Musik Zürich, Wittenberger
www.bachplus.be Renaissance Festival, Musica
Antigua Winterthur and the
Klara Festival in Brussels. Their
Bel Ayre CD In search of Dowland was
Vocal-instrumental described by Klassik Heute as
Renaissance - 21st century one of the best recorder CDs
of the last ten years. B-Five

Bel Ayre means beautiful song. recorded their most recent

Soprano Lieselot De Wilde and album William Byrd – Consort
music and songs with soprano than four centuries of music;
Sunhae Im. the instruments are adapted
— to the period. Their specific
+32 496 530 429 sound is said to ‘exude theatre
[email protected] and colour’. B’Rock Orchestra
www.b-five.eu
often takes part in projects that
create a fascinating dialogue
between music and other art
B.O.X (Baroque forms. The orchestra also
Orchestration X) commissions new work and
Instrumental collaborates with personalities
Baroque, Indie, Pop, Electronics from the music and theatre
Label 62TV Records, 4AD
world.

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—
B.O.X is an Antwerp-based Aglaja Thiesen,artistic direction
Baroque band focusing on +32 9 335 87 97
collective creation. Founded [email protected]
in 2010 by lute and theorbo www.b-rock.org
player Pieter Theuns, B.O.X
gathers some specialists
on early instruments such Capriola Di Gioia
as harpsichord, triple harp, Vocal-instrumental
viola da gamba, cornetto and Baroque
sackbut. They collaborate Label EPR-Classic, Evil Penguin
with a variety of artists from Classic, Aeolus
the indie rock scene, creating
genre-bending new sounds Driven by a shared passion for
and building bridges between the (post-)Baroque repertoire,
audiences. harpsichordist/organist Bart
— Naessens and soprano Amaryllis
Pieter Theuns,artistic direction Dieltiens founded Capriola
+32 485 45 11 71 Di Gioia ensemble in 2007 for
www.boxbaroque.com small-scale performances of
(often forgotten) music from the
17th and 18th centuries. In the
B’Rock spring of 2020 they made a CD
Instrumental recording of Pergolesi’s Stabat
Baroque - 21th century Mater. For larger orchestrations,
Label Etcetera Records, Archiv, BR
the basic line-up of Capriola
Klassik, PENTATONE
Di Gioia is expanded. But this
scaling up in no way diminishes
B’Rock was founded in 2005 the ensemble’s hallmark of
in Ghent by harpsichordist giving the listener/spectator
Frank Agsteribbe, double bass the feeling of intrinsic theatre
player Tom Devaere, Tomas and drama present in music, a
Bisschop and Hendrik Storme. feeling that often wrongly has
B’Rock strives for innovation remained undiscovered.
and a refreshing approach —
in its performances of a [email protected]
repertoire that covers no less [email protected]
 Chœur de Chambre ClubMediéval
de Namur Vocal-instrumental
Vocal Middle Ages
Middle Ages - 21st century Label Musica Ficta
Label Alpha, Ricercar, Aparté,
Christophorus, Cypres Records, ClubMediéval, led by fiddle
Ambronay player Thomas Baeté, is
passionate about the music of
Since its creation in 1987, the the late Middle Ages, and about
Chamber Choir of Namur has bringing this fascinating world
promoted the musical heritage of symbols, poetry and politics
of its region of origin through back to life. ClubMediéval
concerts and recordings of strives for historical accuracy
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works by Lassus, Rogier, Hayne, in order to achieve a heartfelt

Du Mont, Fiocco, Gossec, performance. ClubMediéval has
ensembles & orchestras

Grétry, while also taking on performed in festivals such as

great works from the choral Antwerp’s Laus Polyphoniae,
repertoire. In 2010, the artistic Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek,
direction of the Chamber Tage Alter Musik Regensburg,
Choir of Namur was entrusted Festival de Musique Ancienne
to Leonardo García Alarcón. Ribeauvillé and played in
In 2016, the Chamber Choir Concertgebouw Brugge, AMUZ
of Namur took part in its first and BOZAR. Their first CD
stage production at the Paris featuring unedited ballate and
Opera, and in 2017 was in the madrigals by Paolo da Firenze
cast of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas was internationally acclaimed.
at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, —
in Liège. Monteverdi’s Orfeo was Thomas Baeté,artistic direction
performed in 2017 throughout [email protected]
Europe and South America. www.thomasbaete.be
+32 475 52 49 27
On its concert and repertory
Stijn Jacobs,management
are compositions of Lully, [email protected]
Veneziano, Arcadelt, Handel, +32 479 44 67 46
and Rameau. It has also created
a new work by the Belgian
composer Michel Fourgon. Collegium Vocale Gent
—
Vocal / Vocal-instrumental
Leonardo García Alarcón,
Renaissance - 21st century
artistic direction Label Harmonia Mundi France, Virgin
www.cavema.be/en/choeur-de-
Classics, φ (PHI), Alpha Classics, Glor-
chambre
Classics, France- Musique, Ricercar,
Jean-Marie Marchal,
Musique en Wallonie, Accent,
direction CAV&MA:
Pentatone
[email protected]
+32 81 711 502
+32 495 20 90 71 Collegium Vocale Gent was
founded in 1970 on Philippe
Herreweghe’s initiative by a
group of friends studying at the

University of Ghent. They were

one of the first ensembles to
use new ideas about Baroque Currende was founded in 1974
performance practice in vocal by singer and conductor Erik
music. Their authentic, text- Van Nevel. The ensemble advo-
oriented and rhetorical cates Franco-Flemish polyph-
approach gave the ensemble the ony and revives this valuable
transparent sound with which it heritage through sophisticated
would acquire world fame and and original programming. With
perform at the major concert equal enthusiasm, Currende
venues and music festivals performs music of the Baroque,
of Europe, the United States, from Schütz and Monteverdi to
Russia, South America, Asia Handel and Bach. Currende’s
and Australia. Since 2017 the performances are marked by
ensemble runs its own summer transparency, vitality and scru-

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festival Collegium Vocale Crete pulous attention for text and
Senesi in Tuscany, Italy. language. The ensemble toured
In recent years, Collegium internationally and collaborated
Vocale Gent has grown with Anima Eterna Brugge, La
organically into a flexible Petite Bande, Concerto Köln,
ensemble whose wide Concerto 91 Amsterdam and Il
repertoire encompasses a Giardino Armonico. Currende
range of different stylistic has an extensive discography
periods. Besides Renaissance of more than fifty CDs, several
and Baroque, they are also of which received excellent
specializing in the romantic, press reviews. Their recordings
modern and contemporary of João Lourenço Rebelo and
oratorio repertoires. Collegium Claudio Monteverdi received
Vocale Gent has built up an international praise.
impressive discography of more —
than 100 recordings, most of Erik Van Nevel,artistic direction
them with the Harmonia Mundi +32 9 324 51 54
[email protected]
France and Virgin Classics
www.currende.be
labels. In 2010, Philippe
Herreweghe started his own
label φ (phi).
— Delle Donne Consort
Philippe Herreweghe, Instrumental
artistic direction Renaissance - Baroque, 21st
+32 9 265 90 50 century
[email protected]
www.collegiumvocale.com The Delle Donne Consort is
a Belgian recorder quartet,
founded in 2020; its members
Currende studied with Bart Coen at the
Vocal / Vocal-instrumental LUCA School of Arts cam-
Renaissance - Baroque, 20st pus Lemmens and the Royal
century Conservatory of Brussels. In its
Label Etcetera Records, Accent, programs, the ensemble is seek-
Eufoda, Cantus, Musique en Wallonie, ing for a wide variety in musical
Klara, Telarc, The Sound of Flanders
styles and different approach-
es. They work around specific
 themes or focus on a specific Nicola Boud, bassoonist Julien
composer. The quartet’s mem- Debordes, hornist Nicolas
bers are well-versed in the his- Chedmail and double bassist
torically informed performance Damien Guffroy, the quartet
practice of Renaissance and – under the ensemble name
Baroque music, but they also Northernlight – also recorded
love to experiment with contem- Franz Schubert’s Octet in F
porary music and electronics. Major D. 803. The quartet
The group’s name derives from has also performed with
the concerto delle donne, a pianists Bertrand Chamayou,
group of virtuoso female singers Alain Planès and Boyan
at the Renaissance court of Vodenitcharov.
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Ferrara, whose florid, highly —

ornamented singing brought [email protected]
prestige to Ferrara, inspired
ensembles & orchestras

composers of the time, and

revolutionized the role of Ensemble Clematis
women in professional music. Vocal-instrumental
— Baroque
Lieve De Sadeleer Label Musica Ficta, Ricercar
+32 474 55 74 37
[email protected] The violinist Stéphanie de Failly
www.delledonneconsort.be founded Clematis in 2001 with
the intention of concentrating
on the lesser-known repertoire
Edding Quartet of the 17th century. Clematis
Instrumental is directed by Stéphanie de
Classicism Failly and by harpsichordist
Label Etcetera Records
Brice Sailly. Clematis recorded
music of Carlo Farina, Giovanni
The Edding Quartet was Battista and Tomaso Antonio
founded in 2007 to perform Vitali, and Giovanni Legrenzi. It
the classical and early also focuses on German sacred
romantic repertoire on period and instrumental music, from
instruments, based on an open the early 17th century to Bach.
and honest approach. A first For its vocal programmes it
CD with Joseph Haydn's late collaborates with soloists such
string quartets was released in as Julie Roset, Paulin Bündgen,
September 2008. It was followed and Zachary Wilder. Clematis
by a second CD recording with performed in Belgium as well
clarinettist Nicola Boud that as in the Netherlands, France,
included Wolfgang Amadeus Israel, Italy, Spain, Poland,
Mozart’s clarinet quintet. Both Bolivia, Mexico and Russia.
CDs were received with great —
enthusiasm by the press and Stéphanie de Failly & Brice Sailly,
the public. Since 2014, Edding artistic direction
Quartet has also been exploring www.clematis-ensemble.be
later 19th-century works by Jérôme Lejeune,administrator

Schubert, Mendelssohn and [email protected]

+32 496 20 57 42
Brahms. With clarinettist
Ensemble Isabella 2009’, both live broadcasted. For
Vocal-instrumental the Flemish classical radio they
Middle Ages - Renaissance performed Biber’s 23-part Missa
Bruxellensis and they created
Ensemble Isabella is a new Stabat Mater by Hawar
passionate about medieval and Tawfiq with Cappella Pratensis.
Renaissance music. Isabella Their first CD features organ
presents this repertory in a concertos by Handel and
varied palette of voices and Corrette.
instruments (harps, vielle, —
organetto, and recorders) and Bart Rodyns,artistic direction
bases its performance practice [email protected]
on its own research. Programs [email protected]

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are carefully designed to open www.eubc.be
a window to the historical
and cultural context behind
the music. Depending on the Ex Tempore
program, the ensemble varies Vocal / Vocal-instrumental
from three to five members. Baroque - 21st century
Label Ricercar, CPO, Vox Temporis,
Isabella’s roots lay in the Archiv, L’Oiseau-Lyre, Deutsche
medieval music department of Grammophon, Etoile Production,
the Trossingen Conservatory; Hyperion, Etcetera Records
today they are based in Basel,
Switzerland. Ex Tempore was founded in
— 1989 by Florian Heyerick and
Marie Verstraete
focuses on vocal music from
+32 474 68 14 75
[email protected]
1600 to today. The concert
www.ensembleisabella.com and recording activities target
the performance of lesser-
known works from the Baroque
Euterpe Baroque Consort period. With variable strength
Vocal / instrumental – ranging across the whole
Renaissance - Baroque gamut from solo to chamber
Label Mixtuur choir – Ex Tempore explores
the world of the motet, cantata,
The Euterpe Baroque Consort and oratorio. Among the
was established by artistic highlights a Scarlatti project
leader Bart Rodyns in 2007. stands out, as well as a noted
Professional singers, soloists production in the Flemish opera
and musicians are members with Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno
of this flexible ensemble and d’Ulisse and an internationally
interpret Baroque music in acclaimed performance of
a historical way. The EUBC Telemann’s Der Tod Jesu. Several
was invited to play in festivals CDs have appeared since,
such as Flanders Festival, featuring works by Telemann,
Musica Divina, Cloppenburger Handel, Monteverdi, Heinrich
Kultursommer, MuziekPodium von Herzogenberg, the Scarlatti
Zeeland. The ensemble played family, Johann Ludwig Bach,
‘Klara in het Paleis 2008 and Michael Haydn, and Christoph
 Graupner. Conductors such as new expressive possibilities of
Reinhard Goebel and Sigiswald the refined, European chamber
Kuijken have worked with Ex music repertoire in multi-
Tempore and have brought the disciplinary and intercultural
ensemble to important venues concert forms where early
in Europe. music from other cultures
— combine with modern music,
Florian Heyerick,artistic direction world music and dance. Their
+32 92 31 97 12 first CD Lachrimae (2014) was
[email protected]
received enthusiastically by
www.extempore.be
the press. The newest project,
Dhrupad Fantasia, combines
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the oldest form of North Indian

graindelavoix classical music (the dhrupad)
Vocal / Vocal-instrumental
with music from 16th century
ensembles & orchestras

Middle Ages - Renaissance,

Traditional/Non-Western Music, England. Hathor Consort works
21st century regularly with vocal ensembles
Label Glossa such as pluto-ensemble and
Collegium Vocale Gent. With its
Antwerp-based music and art multi-facetted programming,
ensemble, directed by Björn the Hathor Consort has been
Schmelzer, working with the invited to numerous festivals
past as a message in a bottle, and concert halls throughout
erupting the flow of current Europe.
trends. The grain is the bone —
in the throat, the thing out of Romina Lischka,artistic direction
[email protected]
place, in the past as well as in
www.hathor-consort.eu
the present. Artiestenbureau Els & the Artists,
—
management
Björn Schmelzer,artistic direction
[email protected]
[email protected]
+32 496 81 39 97
www.graindelavoix.be
Katrijn Degans,management
[email protected]
+32 493 18 01 26 Hildebrandt Consort
Vocal-instrumental
Renaissance - Romanticism
Label Organroxx
Hathor Consort
Instrumental
Renaissance - Baroque, Modern Organist, harpsichordist
Music, World Music and composer Wouter
Label Fuga Libera, Ramée Dekoninck founded the
ensemble Hildebrandt Consort
The Hathor Consort was formed to perform stylistically
by Romina Lischka in 2012 and justified transcriptions from
dedicated to Renaissance and the keyboard repertoire
Baroque repertory centered for instrumental/vocal
around the viola da gamba. orchestrations on period

Simultaneously, the group is instruments. The press has

also interested in exploring appreciated productions with
music by Bach, Mendelssohn Huelgas Ensemble also worked
and Schumann. Hildebrandt with contemporary composers
Consort has played at Iedereen such as Wolfgang Rihm and
Klassiek, Bach Academie Brugge, James MacMillan. The group’s
Thüringer Bachwochen, Bach more than one hundred
en Combrailles, in Leuven and recordings have received
Tokyo, and performed live for numerous awards.
Canvas, Klara and MDR KULTUR. —
They have also performed Paul Van Nevel,artistic direction
baroque versions of their songs www.huelgasensemble.be
Silke Jacobsen,management
together with De Nieuwe Snaar
[email protected]
at Antwerp’s Sportpaleis.

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—
Wouter Dekoninck,artistic direction
+32 495 93 31 41 I Suonatori Poetici
[email protected] Vocal-instrumental
www.hildebrandtconsort.org Baroque

Since 2015, Nele Vertommen

Huelgas Ensemble and Beniamino Paganini have
Vocal / Vocal-instrumental regularly performed together
Middle Ages - Renaissance in various ensembles and
Label Seon, Cypres Records, ECM, orchestras with baroque oboe,
Sony Classical, Pavane, Globe traverso, recorder, voice, harp-
Records, Musique en Wallonie, sichord and organ. In 2018 they
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia
named their duo I Suonatori
Mundi France
Poetici. Both performers
have performed with ensem-
Since its foundation in 1971
bles such as Il Gardellino,
by Paul Van Nevel, the Huelgas
Collegium Vocale Gent, La
Ensemble has been one of the
Petite Bande, Scherzi Musicali
most celebrated ensembles
and La Chapelle Harmonique.
specialising in the performance
In addition, with their ensemble
of polyphonic music from the
Musica Gloria, they also give
Middle Ages and Renaissance.
concerts with larger and varying
The ensemble is known
instrumentations. As a duo they
world­wide for its inventive
have performed in concerts, live
programming, particularly of
radio broadcasts and Masses.
un­known masterpieces. The —
name refers to the Spanish [email protected]
Cistercian monastery near [email protected]
Burgos. Performances by www.beniaminopaganini.com/
the Huelgas Ensemble are i-suonatori-poetici-2/
characterized by a deep
knowledge of the aesthetics
and concepts of musical and Il Gardellino
vocal practices of the period. Instrumental/ Vocal-instrumental
The ensemble has been praised Baroque
for its lively and innovative Label Klara, Eufoda, Accent,
approach to the repertoire. Integral Classics, Passacaille
 Il Gardellino was founded boatswain of the dream’ and
in 1988 by hoboist Marcel is an allusion to the medieval
Ponseele and flautist Jan De literary practice of letting the
Winne. The group evolved from narrator of a story doze off
eight permanent members of without actually sleeping; what
the ensemble into a dynamic happens to him afterwards is
entity, joined by singers, extra in the dorveille, between the
winds and strings according shores of waking and dreaming,
to the requirements of the where everything is true … and
works being performed. The false.
core members are leading —
specialists in historically Steven Marien
+32 3 272 58 00
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informed performance practice

and internationally recognised [email protected]
interpreters of Baroque
ensembles & orchestras

music. Il Gardellino carefully

researches its programs and is Il Trionfo
highly regarded nationally and Vocal-instrumental
internationally. It is a frequent Baroque
Label Klara
guest at important European
music festivals and concert halls
Il Trionfo presents itself as
and performed in Australia,
an ensemble specialised in
Asia, the US, Central and South
early Italian Baroque: music in
America, Israel and Russia.
—
which the text is of paramount
Jan De Winne & Marcel Ponseele, importance. The ensemble
artistic direction performed at Laus Polyphoniae
[email protected] 2008, in Paris and elsewhere
[email protected] in France, at the Netwerk Oude
+32 492 95 15 05 Muziek in the Netherlands, in
+32 478 36 39 30 the Czech Republic and Poland.
Jan Van den Borre,intendant A CD recording was released in
[email protected]
2009: Il Canto d’Orfeo. Il Trionfo
+32 477 69 67 66
[email protected]
del Tempo presents a limited
www.ilgardellino.be number of concerts each year.
—
Jan Van Elsacker,artistic direction
+32 3 455 48 80
Il Nostromo del Sogno [email protected]
Instrumental
Middle Ages
InAlto
Il Nostromo del Sogno presents Vocal-instrumental
musical narratives from the Baroque
Middle Ages. The ensemble Label Passacaille, Etcetera Records,
flirts with the boundary Ricercar
between concert and music
theatre, and provides rhyming InAlto aims to explore both
surtitles at each performance. Il vocal and instrumental music

Nostromo del Sogno means ‘the from the Baroque period, by

composers such as Monteverdi, La Caccia
Schütz or Praetorius. By a Instrumental / Vocal-instrumental
thorough study of the available Renaissance
Label Ricercar, Musica Ficta, AMG
sources and by selecting the
Records Benelux, Etcetera Records
best historically informed
partners, InAlto seeks to bring
out the best in the repertoire La Caccia is an ensemble led by
they play. Patrick Denecker that mainly
— programmes music from the
Lambert Colson,artistic direction 15th and 16th centuries. Initially
+32 474 29 79 92 it worked in small ensembles
www.inalto.be and with instruments of
Jean-Marc Poncelet,management the so-called bassa capella

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ClaraMusica Artist Management (soft sounding instruments),
+32 478 34 82 85 later also with alta capella
[email protected]
instruments (shawms and brass
instruments). This brought the
instrumentation of La Caccia
Kuijken String Quartet completely into the domain
Instrumental of the music bands that any
Classicism
Label Denon, Challenge Records, self-respecting European city
Arcana, Accent would employ from the Middle
Ages to the 18th century. The
The Kuijken String Quartet was rich repertoire of the Flemish
founded in 1986 with a view polyphonists is frequently
to focussing on the quartets featured both vocally and
of Haydn and Mozart. The instrumentally. The ensemble’s
formation consists of violinist composition varies according to
Sigiswald Kuijken, violinist the programme. La Caccia has
François Fernandez, viola player played throughout Europe and
Marleen Thiers and cellist has released several CDs.
—
Wieland Kuijken. A regular guest
Patrick Denecker,artistic direction
is viola player Ryo Terakado. All [email protected]
members enjoy an international
reputation as historically
informed string players.
The Kuijken String Quartet
La Hispanoflamenca
Vocal
performed in almost every Renaissance - Baroque
European country, Australia, Label Klara, Etcetera Records
the US, China and Japan. The
quartet recorded repertory by La Hispanoflamenca specialises
Haydn and Mozart. Since 2007 in 16th and 17th century po-
the quartet performs with Sara lyphony from the Low Countries
Kuijken as second violin, and and from the Iberian Peninsula.
sinds 2017 with cellist Michel Composers from the north who
Boulanger. sought their good fortune in the
— south enjoy special attention,
Sigiswald Kuijken
as do the Spaniards who trav-
[email protected]
elled in the opposite direction.
 The ensemble is composed of La Petite Bande has recorded
singers from the Low Countries instrumental as well as vocal
and Spain. In addition to the music, including operas and
Renaissance repertoire, La oratorios from the Baroque
Hispanoflamenca with Orquesta and Classical periods. La
Barroca de Sevilla has also Petite Bande has performed
performed music by Bach and in a multitude of international
Mozart, directed by conductors festivals and concert series,
Gustav Leonhardt, Enrico Onofri in Europe, Australia, South
and Monica Huggett. The CD America, China, Korea and
recording with Lamentations Japan.
by Spanish composer Pedro —
Sigiswald Kuijken,musical director
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Ruimonte was met with enthusi-

astic international reviews. +32 477 94 16 85
— [email protected]
ensembles & orchestras

Bart Vandewege,artistic direction www.lapetitebande.be

+34 609 22 48 07 Herman Siebens,management
[email protected]
www.lahispanoflamenca.com
La Roza Enflorese
Vocal-instrumental
La Petite Bande Middle Ages - Baroque
Label Pavane
Instrumental / Vocal-instrumental
Renaissance - Classicism
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi The Belgian group La
(BMG), Accent, Hyperion, Seon/Virgin, Roza Enflorese has been
Denon, Challenge Records (Brilliant interpreting the Sephardic
Classics) monodic repertoire since
2000. Originating in an oral
La Petite Bande was founded in tradition, these songs are
1972 by Sigiswald Kuijken at the open to a wide range of
request of the record company interpretative possibilities.
Harmonia Mundi (Germany) Made up of five musicians
in order to record Lully’s with a variety of backgrounds
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, (including classical, jazz and
under the direction of Gustav folk music), the ensemble
Leonhardt. The orchestra takes presents these songs as an
its name and constitution encounter between early,
from Lully’s own orchestra at traditional and modern music,
the court of Louis XIV. All its drawing both on instrumental
members are internationally techniques inspired by popular
renowned specialists in early music and on improvisation.
music. After an initial focus on Aiming to create a varied and
French music, the orchestra’s contrasting sound-world, La
repertoire expanded to include Roza Enflorese brings together
Italian music as well as that of instruments from different
Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, places and periods (vielles,
and Mozart. The series of 19 viols, lute, vihuela, oud, kanun,

CDs of Cantatas by J.S. Bach was saz, recorders, crumhorns

completed in February 2013. and percussion instruments
from the Near and Middle Le Pavillon de Musique was
East). Lately, La Roza Enflorese founded in 2020 by violinist Ann
added medieval monodic Cnop. Their first project was the
songs, Spanish Renaissance world premiere and recording
polyphonies and original of Henri-Jacques De Croes’s
compositions to their repertory. forgotten violin concertos.
— Which immediately describes
Marie-Lou Kazmierczak the ensemble’s mission:
[email protected] the rediscovery of unknown
+32 (0)2 537 85 91
Baroque repertoire pieces. In
2021, the ensemble will be in
residence during the new Intra
Le Concert d’Anvers

27
Muros festival at Alden Biesen.
Instrumental —
Classicism - Romanticism Ann Cnop,artistic direction
Label Fuga Libera
[email protected]
www.lepavillondemusique.be
Le Concert d’Anvers is a new
period orchestra under the
artistic direction of Bart Van Les Abbagliati
Reyn. It was founded in 2012 Vocal-instrumental
and is based in Antwerp. Its Baroque
focus is the repertoire of Label Ramée
the 18th and 19th centuries.
Central to their approach is The members of Les Abbagliati
conveying the spark of the focus on the music from the
musicians’ joy of playing to the 17th and 18th century, and
audience. Linked to Octopus combine well-known music
until recently, the orchestra has with forgotten composers. They
played at the Brussels Centre often join forces with dancers
for Fine Arts (BOZAR), deSingel or singers who have learnt the
and was invited to the Haydn faded art of gesture. The musi-
Festival in Brühl (Germany). cians have worked with reknown
The orchestra is made up of Belgian Baroque groups. The
experienced musicians who ensemble had a residence at
appear in renowned early the Festival d’ Ambronay in
music ensembles such as Il 2011, presented a showcase
Fondamento, Anima Eterna for REMA (Réseau Européen de
Brugge, B’Rock, Orchester Musique Ancienne) in Marseille
des Champs-Elysées and Les in 2013, and performed at the
Musiciens du Louvre. Concertgebouw Brugge, Festival
— van Vlaanderen, Musique
Bart Van Reynartistic direction Baroque en Famenne Ardenne,
www.leconcertdanvers.be de Internationale Barocktage
Stift Melk, Kadriorg Palace
in Tallinn, FEMAP (festival de
Le Pavillon de Musique música antiga dels pirineus),
Instrumental and Finland. In October 2020
Baroque their first CD D’Astorga & Lalli
LABEL Etcetera
appeared.
 — Les Buffardins
+32 474 54 11 60 Instrumental
[email protected] Baroque, Rococo
www.lesabbagliati.be Label Accent
Artiestenbureau Els & the Artists,
management The ensemble Les Buffardins,
+32 496 81 39 97 founded by Frank Theuns, is
[email protected]
named after the famous French
flute virtuoso Pierre Gabriel
Buffardin, teacher of Johann
Les Agrémens Jacob Bach and Johann Joachim
Instrumental Quantz. The ensemble focuses
Baroque - Romanticism
on the French, German and
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Label Ricercar, Alpha

English baroque repertoire with
The ensemble Les Agrémens traverso, performed on period
ensembles & orchestras

was created in 1995 by The instruments. The ensemble has

Centre for Vocal Art and Ancient played numerous concerts, and
Music (CAV&MA). Guy Van Waas recorded 9 CDs. These were
has been principal conductor enthusiastically received by
and artistic director of Les the press and public, and were
Agrémens since 2001. The the recipient of international
orchestra has played in several awards.
—
opera productions on stage at Frank Theuns,artistic direction
the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the www.franktheuns.com/les-buffardins/
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
and La Monnaie and in concerts
in operas and opera-ballets by Les Muffatti
Grétry, Kreutzer and Dauvergne. Instrumental
With Ricercar, Les Agrémens Baroque
has released recordings of Label Ramée
Pachelbel, Bach, Charpentier,
Haydn, Gossec and Grétry. In 1996, a group of young
The orchestra has taken part Brussels musicians took up the
in several productions of challenge of embarking on a col-
emblematic works by Handel. Its lective musical and professional
preferred repertoire spans from adventure. Together they found-
the end of the 17th century to ed a baroque orchestra with
Beethoven’s symphonies. Les the aim of highlighting master­
Agrémens and Guy Van Waas pieces by famous composers
also support young soloists and bringing to light unknown
from the European Vocal gems from the musical heritage
Department of Imep. through in-depth musicological
— research, source research and
Guy Van Waas,artistic direction organological study. The or-
Jean-Marie Marchal,
chestra’s name refers to Georg
direction CAV&MA
[email protected]
Muffat (1653-1704). He was an
www.cavema.be/en/agremens indisputable source of the early

+32 81 711 502 history of the orchestra and one

+32 495 20 90 71 of the first to define in great
detail the main characteristic Mezzaluna
differences of the French and Instrumental
Italian styles. The ensemble’s Renaissance
Label Ramée
first recording is dedicated to
this composer. The discography
of Les Muffatti already includes The Ensemble Mezzaluna
eight recordings that have been was founded in 2003 as a
enthusiastically received by the logical consequence of many
press. years of musicological and
— organological co-operation
Catherine Meeùs & Benoît between the Belgian recorder
Vanden Bemden,artistic direction player Peter Van Heyghen and
[email protected] the English recorder maker

29
www.lesmuffatti.be Adrian Brown. The ensemble
Adi Chesson,management typically consists of three to six
+32 2 227 46 72
experienced recorder players
[email protected]
from Belgium, the Netherlands,
France and Austria. Their aim is
to interpret polyphonic music
Luthomania composed between ca. 1480
Instrumental
Baroque, World Music and ca. 1630 using historically
Label Papyros, Music&Words documented performance
practice. The point of departure
In the Luthomania project, the for the performance practice
musical cultures of Arabia, East of the ensemble is the large
Asia and Europe meet around a set of recorders made by
popular and age-old instrument: Adrian Brown, which in their
the lute. It is a dialogue to the conception and construction
tones of traditional and new are as close as possible to
compositions, in which each various historical examples
musician reveals his or her own preserved in different European
timbre: the Chinese pentatonic, museums. Mezzaluna made its
Arabic taqsim, baroque, jazz acclaimed debut in Antwerp at
and contemporary influences. Laus Polyphoniae in July 2003.
After many concerts and two Since then they have performed
acclaimed CDs (Périples and at major festivals in Belgium,
Itinérances), Luthomania longed the Netherlands, Germany and
for a confrontation with another Austria.
—
plucked instrument: the harp,
Peter Van Heyghen,artistic direction
also an instrument with an [email protected]
ancient history. The European www.ensemblemezzaluna.com
baroque harp, the Chinese
zheng and the Arabic qanun add
a sensual accent. This resulted Millenium Orchestra
in the CD Perigrina (2014). Instrumental
— Baroque - Romanticism
Philippe Malfeyt Label Alpha Classics, Ricercar,
[email protected] Ambronay
 The Millenium Orchestra was Peter Van Heyghen (recorder)
founded in 2014 and plays on and Kris Verhelst (harpsichord
original instruments adapted and organ). The repertoire
to different Baroque, classical consists of ensemble music
and romantic repertoires. The composed between the late
orchestra plays masterpieces of 16th and the early 18th century.
the past as well as unpublished More Maiorum has performed
scores. It has performed throughout Europe, the United
programmes with music of States, and in Japan.
Mozart (with soprano Jodie —
Devos), Scarlatti (with Choeur Peter Van Heyghen,artistic direction
de Chambre de Namur), Tartini [email protected]
30

(with Evgeny Sviridov). In

the coming years, Millenium
Orchestra will continue its cycle Musae Jovis
ensembles & orchestras

of great oratorios by Handel Instrumental

before turning its attention to Baroque
Label Sonamusica
the sacred works of Antonio
Vivaldi.
—
Musae Jovis ter maximi proles
Leonardo García Alarcón, canora, plangite: thus starts
artistic direction the six-part motet by Nicolas
www.cavema.be/en/choeur-de- Gombert as an epitaph for
chambre Josquin Desprez. Gombert’s
Jean-Marie Marchal, invocation of the divine muses
direction CAV&MA recalls the intent of early
[email protected] Baroque composers to return
+32 81 711 502, +32 495 20 90 71
to the ideals of ancient theatre,
with particular attention to
audibility and expression of
More Maiorum the word. Musae Jovis explores
Instrumental, Vocal-instrumental known and unknown repertoire
Renaissance - Baroque
Label Klara/Etcetera Records, of the seventeenth and early
Passacaille eighteenth centuries. It was
founded in 2015 by Pieter De
The name More Maiorum refers Moor and comprises 2 violins,
to the customary law of the viola da gamba, theorbo and
ancestors as used in ancient organ or harpsichord. In 2016
Rome. It means as much as ‘in the group was selected by the
the way of the ancestors’. The International Young Artist’s
chamber music ensemble which Presentation (IYAP) at Laus
now bears this name committed Polyphoniae. Their first CD,
themselves to HIP of Baroque Sanctum Desiderium, was
music on period instruments. released in October 2016.
—
Peter Van Heyghen has been
Pieter De Moor,artistic direction
the ensemble’s artistic director [email protected]
since 1993. The formation of the +32 495 60 76 52
ensemble varies, but is always

built around the central duo

Musica Favola Classicism, with the musicians,
Vocal instruments and performance
Baroque - Classicism practice being adapted to
Label Accent, Musique en Wallonie
the programme. In 2014 the
  ensemble was selected for
Musica Favola, referring to the fringe concerts of the MA
Monteverdi’s Orfeo, 'una favola Festival in Bruges and the Oude
in musica', was founded in 2008 Muziek Festival in Utrecht. It
by tenor Stephan Van Dyck. has performed using various
The ensemble mainly focuses orchestrations, from soloists
on 17th and 18th century vocal with strings and basso continuo
music from our region, but also to orchestral, in programmes
from France, Italy and Germany. with music by Purcell, Handel,

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Musica Favola interprets music Bach and Mozart.
by among others Caccini, —
Monteverdi, Du Mont, Danielis, [email protected]
Lambert, Guedron, De la Barre, [email protected]
Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart. www.beniaminopaganini.com/over-
Continuo (harpsichord, theorbo, musica-gloria
viola da gamba) and voice are
the basic instruments of the
ensemble to which, depending Oltremontano
on the project, violins, cornets Instrumental
or other singers are added. Renaissance - Baroque
Label Klara, Eufoda, Accent, Spektral,
Musica Favola has participated
Ricercar, Cypres Records, Passacaille
in various festivals at home
and abroad. The ensemble has
Oltremontano was founded
recorded two CDs: “Airs de
in 1993; the ensemble name
Cour” by Michel Lambert and
refers to the leading Flemish
“Musique sacrée” by Henry Du
composers of polyphony who
Mont.
—
shaped the music life of Europe
Stephan Van Dyck,artistic direction in the 15th and 16th century.
[email protected] In Italy they were dubbed
Oltremontani, those from
beyond the mountains. The core
Musica Gloria of this ensemble consists of
Vocal-instrumental sackbuts, cornets and double
Renaissance - Classicism reed instruments, a strength
that corresponds to the early
Musica Gloria was founded alta capella formation of the city
in 2006 in Bruges by traverso street musicians. The ensemble
player and harpsichordist has worked with ensembles
Beniamino Paganini. The such as Psallentes, Cinquecento
members regularly play with and Pluto-ensemble. The
Il Gardellino, Scherzi Musicali, ensemble’s recordings were
B’Rock, La Petite Bande and enthusiastically received by the
Collegium Vocale Gent. The press. Oltremontano is Artist
focus is on the repertoire from in residence at the KMSKA from
the Renaissance, Baroque and 2017 to 2022.
 — the Middle Ages to the 18th
Wim Becu,artistic direction century. Their performances
+32 473 89 24 12 are characterised by a lively and
[email protected] improvisational approach. The
www.oltremontano.com
ensemble collaborated with the
Moroccan group Weshm, singer
and hurdy-gurdy player Claude
Park Collegium Flagel, actress Antje De Boeck
Vocal and the British a cappella group
Renaissance
Coope Boyes & Simpson. With
the latter, they performed a
Park Collegium is the house
war programme in London and
ensemble of the Alamire Foun­
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Ypres in 2014 during the WW I

dation and resides in the House
commemoration.
of Polyphony. Its aim is to ex- —
ensembles & orchestras

plore the polyphony of the 15th Paul Rans,artistic direction

and 16th centuries based on +44 7523 298094
historical sources. The compo- [email protected]
sition of the ensemble changes, www.paulrans.com
and opportunities are given to
young vocalists. In the spirit
of the mission of the House Per Flauto
of Polyphony, Park Collegium Instrumental
mainly asks itself questions Baroque
about performance practice, Label Sony, Deutsche Harmonia
and thus is a living laboratory Mundi
where practice and research
meet. The project is led by Per Flauto was founded in 2009
Stratton Bull and other experts. by Bart Coen with the special
— purpose to record a CD devoted
Alamire Foundation to a Naples manuscript from
+32 16 32 87 50 1725, containing music by
[email protected] Alessandro Scarlatti, Francesco
www.alamirefoundation.org Mancini and Domenico Sarri.
A second CD, The London
Flute, highlighted the diverse
Paul Rans Ensemble nationalities present in London
Vocal-instrumental during the first half of the 18th
Middle Ages - 21st century century, and offered music by
Label Eufoda, BRT, Globe, Fréa Music
& Words
Corelli, Dieupart and Handel.
The backbone of the ensemble
The Paul Rans Ensemble consists of recorder player
was founded in 1989 by Paul Bart Coen and harpsichordist-
Rans, Philippe Malfeyt, Piet organist Herman Stinders. The
Stryckers and Paul Van Loey, members of Per Flauto are
occasionally reinforced by active in several specialised
violinist An Van Laethem. It early music ensembles. The
presents popular songs and group wants to raise the

instrumental music from visibility of lesser-known pearls

from the Baroque period.
— focuses on Gregorian chant
Bart Coen,artistic direction and related polyphony from
+32 498 52 50 54 various historical periods.
[email protected] Particular attention is paid
www.perflauto.be
to the Gregorian chant of
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FRR2GCnflHM
the late Middle Ages and the
Renaissance. Insights on
this are based on practice-
based research. Psallentes
Pluto-ensemble has worked with ensembles
Vocal
Middle Ages - 21st century such as Capilla Flamenca,
Label Ramée Oltremontano, Zefiro Torna,

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Chœur de Chambre de Namur
The Pluto-ensemble was and the French Millenarium;
founded by singer Marnix De with instrumentalists such
Cat as a variable vocal group as Manuela Bucher and Sarah
that brings a repertoire from Louise Ridy; or organists
the Middle Ages to today. For its such as Arnaud Vande Cauter,
performances of Franco-Flemish Bart Jacobs and Joris Verdin.
Polyphony, the ensemble Psallentes is an enthusiastic
relies on De Cat’s experience partner in museum projects
as a polyphony performer. The and has performed on many
group extends its repertory, large and small stages
however, from the Ars Nova and throughout Europe and North
Ars Subtilior of the fourteenth America. The various Psallentes
century to the Baroque CDs have been highly praised:
(Fux, Biber, Tuma, Bach) and twice a Diapason d’Or, a ‘10
contemporary polyphony in de Répertoire’and a ‘Prix Choc’
minimal and repetitive music. from le Monde de la Musique,
The ensemble regularly works and the Cecilia prize by de
with the Hathor Consort. Their Belgische muziekkritiek. In 2012
CD Animam gementem cano the ensemble started a series
received a Prix Choc of Classica. of recordings with the label Le
— Bricoleur.
Marnix De Cat,artistic direction —
[email protected] Hendrik Vanden Abeele,
www.pluto-ensemble.eu artistic direction
www.psallentes.be
Stijn Jacobs ,manager
+32 479 44 67 46
Psallentes [email protected]
Vocal
Middle Ages - Renaissance
Label Musique en Wallonie, Ricercar,
Eufoda, Accent, Deutsche Harmonia Quadrivium
Mundi, Le Bricoleur Vocal-instrumental
Middle Ages - Early Renaissance
Label Kattenberg Recordings
The early music ensemble
Psallentes (‘the singing’) was
founded in 2000 by Hendrik Quadrivium is an ensemble
Vanden Abeele. The ensemble specializing in late-medieval
 music, particularly the Franco- and Krommer on period
Flemish repertoire of the 14th instruments. The members
and 15th centuries. This refined of Quatuor Dialogues studied
and complex repertoire is at the Royal Conservatory of
brought to life on a specialized Brussels and have worked with
medieval instrumentarium. The ensembles such as La Petite
ensemble Quadrivium consists Bande, Ricercar Consort, Anima
of voice (Ellen Delahanty), Eterna Brugge, Il Fondamento,
recorder and organetto (Geert les Muffatti, les Agrémens, Il
Van Gele), vielle (Maaike Gardellino, Le Parlement de
Boekholt), harp and psaltery Musique and Bach Collegium
(Bill Taylor), and lute (Willem Japan. In 2015 the ensemble
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Mook). A secondary specialty recorded its first CD with harp­

of the ensemble has become sichordist Ewald Demeyere.
the addition to their programs —
ensembles & orchestras

of contemporary works which Vinciane Baudhuin

compliment or comment on +32 476 41 30 94
vinciane.baudhuin@
their medieval repertoire. The
quatuordialogues.be
ensemble’s first CD presented www.quatuordialogues.be
their program La Cause est
Amer, with medieval love poems
from Japan set to music by
Janpieter Biesemans, paired
Ratas del viejo Mundo
Vocal-instrumental
with medieval art songs from Middle Ages - Baroque
the Low Countries. For the Label Etcetera Records, Ramée,
next CD Flemings in Spain, the DistroKid
ensemble worked with tenor Jan
Van Elsacker. Ratas del viejo Mundo
— treats scores by well-known
Geert Van Gele,artistic direction composers and music from
+32 3 236 66 32
the street (anonymous, folk)
[email protected]
www.quadrivium.net
with equal value. It combines
traditional with classical
instruments as well as
with voices. Ratas del viejo
Quatuor Dialogues Mundo has performed in the
Instrumental
Baroque - Classicism Netherlands, Denmark, Spain,
Label Challenge Classics Belgium, the Czech Republic,
Italy and the United States. In
Quatuor Dialogues was founded 2019 they performed Šumava,
in 2010 by oboist Vinciane a production with South
Baudhuin with the aim of American circus virtuosos and
highlighting the repertoire for madrigals by De Monte. A high-
oboe and string trio from the profile collaboration with Sidi
period 1750-1820. It therefore Larbi Cherkaoui is currently
focuses on a historically in the works. The ensemble’s
informed performance of recordings have received

works by Mozart, Vanhal, worldwide acclaim.

Abel, Johann Christian Bach, —
Floris De Rycker,artistic direction explore the Baroque repertoire,
[email protected] from chamber music to opera
www.rdvm.org and oratorio. The ensemble
recorded music of composers
such as Bach, Pergolesi, Vivaldi,
RedHerring Biber, and Buxtehude.
Vocal-instrumental —
Baroque Philippe Pierlot,artistic direction
Label Antarctica, Acoustic Revive [email protected]
(Japan) www.ricercarconsort.com

In 2011 Patrick Denecker

founded RedHerring as a Scherzi Musicali

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flexible ensemble for baroque Vocal-instrumental
music, focusing on well-known Baroque
and unknown repertoire pieces Label Alpha, Musique en Wallonie,
from the 17th and 18th century. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony,
For RedHerring, a preliminary Ricercar
study of the source material
and the historical instruments The Belgian ensemble Scherzi
is self-evident for further Musicali was founded by
musical exploration. The varied Nicolas Achten and focuses
programmes of RedHerring are on (re)discovering work from
not shy about experimenting the 17th and 18th centuries.
with audience involvement in The orchestration varies
the concert event. from 3 to 40 musicians. In its
— educational mission, Scherzi
Patrick Denecker,artistic direction Musicali regularly collaborates
+32 472 54 23 04 with Jeunesses Musicales/
[email protected] Jeugd & Muziek to introduce
www.redherring.be young audiences to early
music. The discography of
Scherzi Musicali currently
Ricercar Consort consists of ten recordings,
Vocal-instrumental eight of which contain works
Baroque that have never been released
Label Mirare, Flora
on CD. These recordings were
enthusiastically received by
Ricercar, to seek, has been the international press. Scherzi
the underlying motto of the Musicali is Artist in Residence at
Ricercar Consort ever since its the KMSKA from 2018 to 2022.
foundation. When it made its —
first concert tour in 1985 with Nicolas Achten ,artistic direction
Bach’s Musical Offering, the +32 496 10 57 19
ensemble had already acquired [email protected]
a international reputation www.scherzimusicali.be
with its recordings of German Management: Luc Van Loocke
Baroque cantatas and Weinstadt Artists Management
[email protected]
instrumental music. Today, the
Ricercar Consort continues to
 Sospiri Ardenti containing the first ever solo
Vocal-instrumental for clarinet. It recorded and
Renaissance, Baroque performed Mozart’s concerto
Label Kattenberg Recordings
on a historical basset clarinet.
In collaboration with the
The ensemble Sospiri Ardenti University of Antwerp, Terra
specializes in the music of Nova Collective presented seven
the late Renaissance and lesser known composers in a
early Baroque period and series of 14 concerts, called
performs staged chamber Trouvailles. Furthermore, it
music of the Baroque era. Their released CDs with music for the
programs The Nightingale, clarinetto d’amore, a forgotten
a family opera on a story by
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instrument from the Mozart era,

H.C. Andersen set to music of and from the composer Joseph
Telemann, and a program of Ryelandt.
ensembles & orchestras

Shakespearean music were —

received enthusiastically. The Vlad Weverbergh,artistic direction
members of Sospiri Ardenti [email protected], office@
have specialized in historical terranovacollective.com
performance, and have www.terranovacollective.com
performed with ensembles
such as the Flanders Recorder
Quartet, American Bach The New Baroque Times
Soloists, ARTEK, Philharmonia Vocal-instrumental
Baroque Orchestra, and La Baroque
Label Glossa, Antarctica Records
Primavera. The ensemble has
performed in Europe and in
America. The New Baroque Times was
— founded in Brussels in 2012
Geert Van Gele,artistic direction as a vocal and instrumental
+32 3 236 66 32 ensemble that re-explores
[email protected] 17th and 18th century music.
www.sospiri.com In projects ranging from
instrumental chamber music
to large choral works, they also
Terra Nova Collective make use of poetry, dance and
Instrumental visual arts to combine ancient
Baroque - Classicism art and contemporary creation.
Label Etcetera Records
The New Baroque Times is
in residence at the Instituto
Terra Nova Collective seeks Cervantes in Brussels, where
to discover, catalogue and it hosts an annual season
study exceptional pearls of of concerts, conferences,
unknown music by composers educational activities and a
from the Low Countries in the cultural exchange programme
18th and early 19th century. to disseminate Spanish and
In 2016, Terra Nova Collective Belgian musical heritage. The
gave the world premiere of New Baroque Times works

the Missa Maria Assumptae with ensembles such as

by J.A. Faber, a Baroque mass Astoria, RedHerring, Brussels
Chamber Orchestra, La Cetra Heksentoeren, with lyrics by
d’Orfeo and Chapelle Musicale Pieter Dubbels and music
de Tournai, and conductors from Armide by J.B Lully. Their
such as Hansjörg Albrecht, most recent CD recording,
Dirk Vermeulen and Patrick commissioned by Antwerp’s
Denecker. The New Baroque Vleeshuis, is the first complete
Times has been a guest in Spain, recording of the works by and
France and Italy, and has played around composer Isabella
at the major music festivals in Duarte (1620-1685).
Belgium. —
— Thomas Baeté,artistic direction
Pablo Carcía,artistic direction +32 475 52 49 27
+32 494 62 03 23pablo@ [email protected]

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thenewbaroquetimes.com, info@ www.thomasbaete.be/groups/
thenewbaroquetimes.com transports-publics
www.thenewbaroquetimes.com Stijn Jacobs,management
[email protected]
+32 479 44 67 46
Transports Publics
Vocal-instrumental
Baroque Vox Luminis
Label Musica Ficta Vocal, Vocal-instrumental
Renaissance - Classicism
Label Ricercar, Alpha Classics,
Transports Publics has existed
Ramée, Musique en Wallonie
since 2012 and is the collective
name for the projects in which
Thomas Baeté endeavours Since its foundation in 2004,
to manoeuvre his audience the vocal ensemble Vox
to the lesser known corners Luminis, led by bass vocalist
of baroque music. For each Lionel Meunier, has received
project, he brings together a international acclamation
group of 3 to 10 performers for its unique sound, both in
with whom he leaves the beaten a solo line-up and in larger
track of the Baroque repertoire productions. Specialising in
in favour of a forgotten the 17th and early 18th century
composer or performer, a new English, Italian and German
angle or a curious connecting repertoire, Vox Luminis brings
bridge. Transports Publics masterpieces and unknown
has presented a production repertoire pieces back to
around the figure of John life. In 2012, Vox Luminis was
Gostling, the favourite vocalist awarded ‘Recording of the Year’
of among others Henry Purcell, at the prestigious Gramophone
and released a first CD with Awards. In the meantime,
never-before-recorded music Vox Luminis has released
by seventeenth-century viola sixteen recordings and won
da gamba virtuoso Anthony international awards, including
Poole. At the request of the Choral Award 2018 from
Concertgebouw Brugge and the BBC Music Magazine and 3
Bruges Museums, Transports Diapasons d’Or. The ensemble
Publics created the production recently received another
 Gramophone Music Award in Utopia
the Choral category for the Vocal
CD Buxtehude: Abendmusiken Renaissance
Label Etcetera Records, Ramée
(2019). Vox Luminis annually
presents some 70 concerts at
the most important concert Utopia saw the light of day
halls and festivals worldwide in 2015. This young vocal
and is the artist-in-residence ensemble unites 5 singers with
of Concertgebouw Brugge. a great passion for polyphony.
The ensemble recently began Utopia took its name from
a structural collaboration Thomas More’s book from
with the renowned Freiburger 1516. Inspired by More’s
innovative ideas, Utopia aims
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Barockorchester.
— to play a social role through its
Lionel Meunier,artistic direction projects and collaborations.
ensembles & orchestras

[email protected] The annual Utopia Festivaldag

Tomas Bisschop,direction features music, visual art,
[email protected] film and photography, as well
www.voxluminis.com as lectures and debates on
social themes. As ‘ensemble in
residence’ at Sint-Pauluskerk
Ultreya (Antwerp), Utopia has a home
Instrumental base for concerts and new
Early music, Folk music projects. In recent years
Utopia has performed at major
The duo Ultreya was founded festivals and on concert stages
in 1990 and consists of Martina in Belgium, the Netherlands,
Diessner and Peter Van Germany, Poland, Spain and the
Wonterghem. Both musicians Czech Republic. Utopia released
play early music and traditional 2 CDs with music by Cristóbal
music on an extensive set of de Morales, Josquin Desprez,
instruments. Ultreya regularly Balduin Hoyoul and Michael
collaborates with the ensemble Praetorius.
Pandora². This collaboration —
has resulted in the programmes +32 485 40 45 34
Cantigas de Santa Maria, Jakobus [email protected]
- muziek op de weg naar Santiago www.utopia-ensemble.be
[music for the pilgrimage to
Santiago] and Gruuthuse, liederen
uit het manuscript [songs from Vlaams Radiokoor
the manuscript]. Jakobus (2009) Vocal
and Gruuthuse (2013) also Renaissance - 21st century
appeared on CD. Martina and Label Antarctica, Evil Penguin
Peter are also part of the folk Classic, Palazzetto Bru Zane
group Boreas.
— The Vlaams Radiokoor
+32 9 374 08 37 was founded in 1937 as a
[email protected] professional chamber choir by

www.duo-ultreya.be the Belgian National Institute

for Radio (NIR). From the
outset, the Vlaams Radiokoor science, contemporary visual
has been an extremely flexible arts, (puppet) theatre and
ensemble that covers a very dance, Zefiro Torna creates
broad repertoire, from early captivating total concepts
to contemporary music, from around a variety of symbolic
a capella to large choral and and allegorical themes. To this
orchestra line-ups, and from end, the ensemble entered into
serious music to light music dialogue with individual artists,
and operettas. Bart Van Reyn directors, choreographers,
has been music director of the composers and performers.
Radio Choir since the 2019-20 The creations and CDs of Zefiro
season. The shared passion for Torna are the recipients for

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the contemporary repertoire, frequent awards.
the belief in the voice as the —
ultimate interpreter of our Jurgen De bruyn,artistic direction
emotions, and the pursuit +32 496 70 60 14
[email protected]
of making our vocal heritage
www.zefirotorna.be
accessible to vocalists and Sigrid Damen,management
audience are what unites +32 496 40 36 03
ensemble and conductor. [email protected]
The Vlaams Radiokoor is an
institution of the Flemish
Community.
—
Alain De Ley,artistic administrator
+32 2 627 11 60
www.vlaamsradiokoor.be

Zefiro Torna
Vocal-instrumental
Middle Ages - Baroque, Traditional
Music
Label Eufoda, Etcetera Records,
Homerecords, Antarctica, Warner
Classics

Since its foundation in 1996,

internationally renowned music
ensemble Zefiro Torna has
been known for its innovative
and original concepts. The
ensemble works with musicians
from throughout Europe and
brings to life the musical
heritage from the Middle Ages
to Baroque in a unique way. By
linking a historical performance
practice to other music
genres, literature, philosophy,
 1.2. Soetkin Baptist – soprano
Singers Renaissance - 21st century

Soetkin Baptist studied at

LUCA School of Arts Lemmens
Campus in Leuven. Since 2007
she has been performing
on stage with Wouter
Vandenabeele’s Chansons sans
Paroles, her duo with Anne
Van den Bossche (piano), with
French chanson programmes,
with the ensemble Polygone,
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1.2.1. Sopranos &

mezzo-sopranos her duo with guitarist Bert
Candries, and Duo Dès. Since
singers sopranos & mezzo-sopranos

April 2012, Soetkin has been

collaborating on ‘Drumming’
by Rosas and is a regular guest
with graindelavoix, ensemble
Psallentes and Zefiro Torna.
In September 2014 she made
her music theatre debut
(Liedjes met Wortels/Songs with
Roots) commissioned by Zonzo
Compagnie. She is part of Ratas
del viejo Mundo, sings as a
soloist and as a guest singer
with various ensembles, and is
a member of vocal ensemble
VocalArt.
—
Musica Idea,management
Inge Depraetere
[email protected]
+32 475 89 07 21

Lore Binon – soprano

Renaissance - 21st century
Label Outhere

Lore Binon studied violin and

voice at the Royal Conservatory
of Brussels. She completed her
studies at the Escola Superior
de Musica de Catalunya in
Barcelona and the Conservatory
of Amsterdam. During her

studies she received the Cardon

prize for exceptional results,
and in 2019 she received the Cesti in Innsbruck (2017).
Klara prize for promising youth. She was part of the Les Arts
With the role of Barbarina Florissants’ young artist
(Nozze di Figaro), she made programme Le Jardin des Voix
her opera debut, and in 2017 2019. With William Christie
she took on the role of Pamina and Paul Agnew, she interprets
in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the role of Arminda in La
the Flemish Opera. She was finta Giardiniera by Mozart.
also artist-in-residence at the She recent performed music
Festival of Flanders Mechelen. by Rameau, Charpentier,
She is a much sought-after Couperin, Britten, Purcell and
soloist at home and abroad for Desmarest. She worked with
both the symphonic repertoire René Jacobs, Raphaël Pichon

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and early music. In addition, and Christian Immler. She has
Lore Binon has a great love also sung for several recordings
for chamber music. She is with Ensemble Pygmalion, Le
co-founder of Revue Blanche, Poème Harmonique, Collegium
which received the Klara prize 1704, Scherzi Musicali, a nocte
for promising youth in 2013. temporis and Vox Luminis.
Lore’s discography includes the Several recordings with
recordings Les poètes maudits Collegium 1704, Ensemble
and Impressions de Pelléas Correspondances, Holland
(Mélisande), Ein Deutsches Baroque and Le Poème
Requiem and Shelter. Harmonique are scheduled to
— be released in 2020-2021.
+32 485 11 15 75 —
[email protected] +32 470 64 88 04
Ariën Arts & Music Management, b.v., [email protected]
management www.deborahcachet.com
+32 9 330 39 90 Olivier Lallouette,management
www.arien-artists.com +31 6 33 04 24 94
[email protected]

Déborah Cachet – soprano

Baroque Elise Caluwaerts – soprano
Baroque – Early Romanticism
Deborah Cachet studied
studied at LUCA School of Arts Soprano Elise Caluwaerts is
campus Lemmens and the a much sought-after soloist
Conservatorium Amsterdam. in Belgium and abroad. Her
Deborah won prizes in several predilection for challenging
vocal competitions: first prize repertoire has led to
at the Concours International numerous creations and
de Chant Baroque de Froville special collaborations with
(2015), first prize and the internationally renowned
audience award in the New composers and ensembles.
Tenuto competition (2013), and She sung from the coloratura
finalist for the 8th International repertoire with the St.
Singing Competition for Petersburg Symphony
Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Orchestra and performed in
 Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the She is in demand at most
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Belgian orchestras. In 1997
in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia Anne Cambier made her debut
in Norway and played the female at De Munt in Brussels. With
lead in Enjott Schneider’s opera Muziektheater Transparant she
Marco Polo in Guangzhou. performs songs by Barber,
She often participates in played the leading role in
multidisciplinary projects, Mozart’s Zaide and in Seleuce
among others with literary (Tolomeo-Händel), and she
talent Lize Spit. In 2019, at the played Elisa in Mozart’s Il Re
request of House of Flanders, Pastore. With an exceptionally
she curated an artistic smooth voice, she shines in
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production in which art, fashion the Baroque repertoire. She is

and technology come together a regular guest with baroque
in the San Francisco’s Legion of orchestras such as Musica
singers sopranos & mezzo-sopranos

Honor museum. Antiqua Köln, Les Agrémens, Il

— Fondamento, The Academy of
www.elisecaluwaerts.com Ancient Music, La Petite Bande.
Aulos Music Management, Together with Michael Pas she
management
performed the music theatre
[email protected]
production Quel beau jour on
the life of Marie-Antoinette.
—
Anne Cambier – soprano www.annecambier.be
Baroque - 20th century Catalpa Productions,management
Label Catalpa Productions, +32 478 28 19 55
Bloomline, Klara, Signum Sound www.catalpaproductions.be
Productions, Alpha, MMP, Etcetera
Records, Accent
Helen Cassano – 
After her studies at the KASK &
Royal Conservatory, School of mezzo-soprano
Renaissance - Baroque
Arts HOGENT & Howest, Anne Label Ricercar, Etcetera Records,
Cambier continued her studies Alpha Classics, Musique en Wallonie,
at the London Guildhall School Sonamusica, Ediciones Singulares,
of Music and Drama. During her Ambronay Editions, Cypres Records,
stay in London, Anne Cambier Evil Penguin Classic, Palazzetto Bru
performed roles with diverse Zane, Sony Music, Deutsche Harmonia
British opera companies, and Mundi
she collaborated with Les
Arts Florissants conducted by Helen Cassano was born in
William Christie. Anne Cambier London in 1979 and grew up in
has often performed in Spain Madrid. She returned to London
with the baroque ensemble in 1999 to study music at Royal
La Grande Chapelle and her Holloway, University of London.
own baroque ensemble, I She continued her studies
Justiniani. From 1996 her career at the Royal Conservatories
took off, partly thanks to her of Brussels and The Hague,

semifinal finish in the 1996 and the LUCA School of Arts

Queen Elisabeth Competition. campus Lemmens in Leuven.
She sings with the Chœur Geyter has a large discography
de Chambre de Namur and with different ensembles, such
the Vlaams Radiokoor, and as Il Gardellino.
became a founding member —
of Vox Luminis. She joined the [email protected]
Huelgas Ensemble in 2015 and www.grietdegeyter.be
became a fixed member of the
Vlaams Radiokoor in 2019. She
recorded music of Carissimi, Liesbeth Devos – soprano
Schütz and Bonefont. In 2007 Renaissance - 20th century
Label Phaedra, Fuga Libera, Cypres
she founded the Brussels
Records
Chamber Choir, which she

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conducts.
—
Belgian soprano Liesbeth Devos
[email protected] studied oboe and voice at the
www.helencassano.be Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
She won first prize at the Kurt-
Leimer Wettbewerb (Zurich), was
Griet De Geyter – soprano a finalist of the Liedwettbewerb
Baroque - 21st century des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Label Passacaille, Brilliant Classics (Bayreuth) and a finalist of the
Wigmore Hall/Independent
The Belgian soprano Griet De Opera Voice Fellowship. Liesbeth
Geyter lost her heart to vocal Devos appeared regularly for
Baroque music. She studied at various roles in the three opera
the LUCA School of Arts campus houses in Belgium (De Munt, the
Lemmens in Leuven, at the Flemish Opera and the Opéra
Dutch National Opera Academy Royal de Wallonie) and has also
and the Royal Conservatory of performed at the San Francisco
The Hague, where she received Opera. As a concert vocalist,
the Ruim Baan Voor Talent prize. Liesbeth Devos has sung the
Some of her most treasured solo with various symphonic
projects were a video recording orchestras such as Amsterdam
of Bach’s Matthew Passion with Sinfonietta, Les Arts Florissants,
the Netherlands Bach Society Antwerp Symphony Orchestra,
for www.allofbach.com, the The Academy of Ancient
opera production Dido & Acis Music, Brussels Philharmonic,
with The Ministry of Operatic Orchester de Dijon Bourgogne,
Affairs and projects with iI Flanders Youth and Music
Gardellino, Collegium Vocale Orchestra, Handel and Haydn
Gent, the Netherlands Bach Society, Le Concert d’Anvers,
Society, Collegium Marianum Württembergische Philharmonie
and Le Poème Harmonique. She Reutlingen and the Slovenian
has worked with conductors Philharmonic Orchestra. She
such as Philippe Herreweghe, has appeared on CD with music
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paul by August De Boeck, Bram Van
Dombrecht, Bart Van Reyn, Camp and Lodewijk Mortelmans.
Richard Egarr, Václav Luks and —
Jos van Veldhoven. Griet De [email protected]
www.liesbethdevos.com
 Amaryllis Dieltiens – soprano Lieselot De Wilde studied at the
Baroque - 20th century LUCA School of Arts campus
Label Klara, Aeolus, Carus Lemmens and with Jard Van
Nes. In 2014 she participated in
Bruges soprano Amaryllis the Academy of Pierre Boulez.
Dieltiens studied at the LUCA She obtained a first prize
School of Arts Lemmens during the Concours Axion
Campus in Leuven, the Classic of Belfius Bank. She
Conservatory of Amsterdam, was one of the three soloists
and the Dutch National Opera in The Wasp Factory, an opera
Academy. She became a much by the Icelandic composer Ben
sought after (opera) singer Frost. She recorded together
and performed roles in operas
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with Korneel Bernolet and his

by Purcell, Mozart, Rameau, Apotheosis Ensemble the album
Handel, Biber, Dove and Mozart. Trois Visages d’Hécate and she
singers sopranos & mezzo-sopranos

In recent years, Amaryllis also appears with Apotheosis

has increasingly opted for on the recording of Pigmalion
concert work; she has worked by Rameau. Furthermore,
with Juanjo Mena, Konrad Lieselot worked with Ensemble
Junghänel, Frans Brüggen, and Correspondances, Catalina
Ton Koopman. She has sung Vicens, Sofie Vanden Eynde,
with orchestras such as the Romina Lischka, Marnix De
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Cat, and Jurgen De bruyn.
Nederlands Philharmonisch Lieselot appeared in several
Orkest, the Netherlands Bach successful productions of
Society, Musica Ad Rhenum, LOD, a Ghent-based company
B’ Rock, and with ensembles for creation of contemporary
such as Combattimento, Musica opera and music-theatre.
Amphion, Apollo Ensemble These productions toured
and BachPlus. Her repertoire to Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
extends from early Baroque deSingel, de Vlaamse Opera,
to the 20th century, with a and Aldeburgh Festival.
focus on the Baroque and —
Classical repertoire. In 2007, +32 485 14 42 03
together with Bart Naessens [email protected]
she founded the chamber music www.lieselotdewilde.net
ensemble Capriola Di Gioia. She
has collaborated on many CD
recordings. Soetkin Elbers – soprano
— Baroque
[email protected] Label Antarctica, Brilliant Classics

Soetkin Elbers studied at the

Lieselot De Wilde – soprano Koninklijk Conservatorium
Renaissance – 21st century Brussel and the Musik und
Label Ricercar, Etcetera Records, Kunst Privatuniversität Wien.
Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Her passion for Baroque music
Grammophon has led her to specialise in the

practise of Baroque gesture,

through a close collaboration audience price at the Wigmore
with renowned Baroque dance Hall Song Competition,
and gesture specialist Sigrid Sophie Karthäuser counts
T’Hooft. Her vast repertoire among the most coveted
includes operas, oratorios, recitalists with appearances in
church cantatas, contemporary Antwerp, Lille, Nantes, Paris,
pieces, lieder and many solo at New York’s Carnegie Hall
Baroque chamber cantatas. and London’s Wigmore Hall,
She is a core member of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Kölner
Brussels Baroque ensemble Philharmonie, BOZAR, Frankfurt
Les Abbagliati and of the and Paris, accompanied by
contemporary music ensemble pianists Graham Johnson,

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Neues Atelier (Austria). As a Eugene Asti, Cédric Tiberghien
guest she collaborates with and David Lively. Sophie
several ensembles, notably with Karthäuser is an equally sought-
Belgian early music ensemble after concert soloist and is
RedHerring with whom she frequently invited by prestigious
recorded the album La Muse ensembles and orchestras
et la Mise (en Concert) . While such as Staatskapelle Dresden,
still a student in 2007 she made Gewandhausorcherster,
her opera debut at the Opéra Freiburger Barockorchester
Royal de Wallonie where she and Akademie für Alte Musik
performed several soprano Berlin among others. Her
parts in The Fairy Queen under presence on the podium on
Sébastien Rouland. countless occasions alongside
— conductors such as Riccardo
[email protected] Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung,
www.soetkinelbers.net Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas
Hengelbrock, Pablo Heras-
Casado, Philippe Herreweghe,
Sophie Karthäuser – soprano and René Jacobs, give testimony
Baroque - 21st century to her outstanding artistry.
Label Aparté, Passacaille, Harmonia
—
Mundi, PENTATONE, Alpha Classics, Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher,
Opus Arte, Ricercar, Archiv management
Productions, Cypres Records, Virgin [email protected]
Classics +43 5 06 80 012

Sophie Karthäuser studied

at the Guildhall School of Cécile Kempenaers –
Music and Drama. Renowned
worldwide as one of the finest
soprano
Renaissance - Baroque
interpreters of Mozart’s works, Label Eufoda, Harmonia Mundi,
Sophie Karthäuser has earned Zig-Zag Territoires, Sony, Etcetera
such praise by singing her first Records, Deutsche Grammophon,
ever Pamina under the baton Aeolus
of René Jacobs at La Monnaie
and her debut Susanna led by Cécile Kempenaers studied at
William Christie with Opéra de KASK & Royal Conservatory,
Lyon. Ever since she won the School of Arts HOGENT,
 Howest and the Brabants the opera roles of Zerlina in
Conservatorium Tilburg. Cécile Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ (G.
mainly sings as a concert soloist Corbiau); Coryphée in ‘Alceste’
and has worked with renowned by Gluck (De Munt, I. Bolton/B.
conductors such as Philippe Wilson); Atilia in ‘Eliogaballo’
Herreweghe, Marcus Creed, by Cavalli (De Munt, Innsbruck,
Daniel Reuss, Ton Koopman and Jacobs/Boussart); Papagena
René Jacobs. She works with in Mozart’s ‘Zauberflöte’ (De
baroque orchestras such as the Munt, Caen, Lille, New York,
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, R. Jacobs/W. Kentridge and
Freiburger Barockorchester, Toulouse, C.P. Flor/N. Joël),
Collegium Vocale Gent, Lautten L’Amour and Clarine in ‘Platée’
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Compagney and has also by Rameau (Opéra du Rhin,

contributed to numerous CD C. Rousset/M. Clément), La
productions. She is a member Musica and Euridice in ‘L’Orfeo’
singers sopranos & mezzo-sopranos

of ensembles such as Zefiro by Monteverdi (Cremona, A.

Torna, Vocalconsort Berlin, Marcon). Scheen also assisted
Capella de la Torre, and the in the recording of the film
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. music for ‘Le Roi danse’ (DG)
She sings (and dances) in with Musica Antiqua Köln
various productions with the conducted by Reinhard Goebel,
Berlin dance company Sasha released a CD on improvisations
Waltz & Guests: Dido and Aeneas with Paolo Pandolfo, and a CD
(Purcell), Medea and Passion with music by Barbara Strozzi
(Pascal Dusapin), Matsukaze with Cappella Mediterranea and
(Toshio Hosokawa) and Orfeo Alarcón. Together with Christina
(Monteverdi). Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata,
— Scheen presented a series
Musica Idea,management of concerts with works by
Inge Depraetere Purcell, and recorded the CD
+32 475 89 07 21
‘Himmelsmusik’ with Philippe
[email protected]
www.musicidea.be
Jaroussky.
—
[email protected]

Céline Scheen – soprano

Baroque – Classicism
Label Warner Liesbeth Schepers – soprano
Baroque – Romanticism
Belgian soprano Céline Scheen
Belgian soprano Liesbeth
studied at the conservatories
Schepers studied voice and
of Mons and Brussels and at
double bass at the Maastricht
the Guildhall School of Music
Conservatory. She also
and Drama in London. Scheen
performed as soloist in Stabat
has given concerts in the major
Mater by Pergolesi, Gloria by
venues of the world under the
Vivaldi, Caffee-Cantate by Bach,
direction of conductors such as
Cantata Non sa che sià dolore
Ivor Bolton, Reinhard Goebel,
by Bach, Vos aurae per montes

René Jacobs and Philippe

and Geme l’onda che parte
Herreweghe. She has performed
dell’monte by Vivaldi, Phèdre Haus der Berliner Festspiele,
et Hypollite by Bourgeois. Royal Opera House/Covent
With the Baroque ensemble Garden, De Munt, Flagey,
Les Goûts Réunis she regularly Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, as
performs in the Netherlands well as in festivals such as the
and Germany, mainly from the Ruhrtriennale, Operadagen
French Baroque repertoire. She Rotterdam, Laus Polyphoniae,
is intensively involved with the Festival van Vlaanderen, and MA
lieder repertoire. Thanks to Festival. She collaborated with a
her broad interest in different variety of artists a.o. conductors
styles, languages and poetry, (Alejo Pérez, Giedrė Šlekytė,
she has built up a repertoire Philippe Herreweghe), classical,
that includes works ranging ethnic and jazz musicians

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from Mozart to Lutosławski. She (Romina Lischka, Bart Coen,
studied under Irwin Gage in Ghalia Benali, Frank Vaganée),
Saarbrücken in 2007, where she composers (Annelies Van Parys,
followed specialised training Jeroen D’hoe), directors (Johan
in lieder duos together with Simons, Ivo van Hove, Tom
pianist Lionel Bams. In 2005 she Goossens) and choreographers
was awarded third prize in the (Alan Lucien Øyen, Anne Teresa
Euriade Vocaal Concours for the De Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi
literary lied, and in 2008 she Cherkaoui).​
became a laureate in the Forte —
competition organised by the +32 496 05 63 02
province of Limburg (Belgium). [email protected],
www.anneliesvangramberen.be
She regularly gives recitals
with pianists Michel Stas and
Peter Vanhove, and she is fond
of creating original concert Els Van Laethem – soprano
programmes together with Renaissance, Baroque
Label Etcetera Records, Globe,
organists such as Anja Hendrikx Homerecords
and Hans Heykers.
—
[email protected]
Els Van Laethem studied singing
at LUCA School of Arts campus
Lemmens. She was attracted
almost immediately to the world
Annelies Van Gramberen – of early music. For eighteen
soprano years she has been a permanent
Middle Ages – 21st century
member of the renowned
Huelgas Ensemble, conducted
As a dramatic coloratura
by Paul Van Nevel, with
soprano Annelies Van
concerts at home and abroad
Gramberen can handle a wide
and various CD recordings.
range of genres and styles, from
In 1996, together with Jurgen
lied, oratorio, and opera to
De bruyn, she founded the
styles ranging from medieval to
early music ensemble Zefiro
contemporary. She performed
Torna. The ensemble quickly
in internationally praised
left its mark on the current
productions, at venues such as
musical landscape by forging
 relationships with other Sarah Van Mol – soprano
cultures in combination with Renaissance - 21st century
other forms of contemporary Label Pavane, Accent
music and theatre. She regularly
sings in the ensemble Octopus Sarah Van Mol studied piano,
conducted by Bart Van Reyn organ and voice at the Royal
and graindelavoix conducted Conservatoire Antwerp.
by Björn Schmelzer. Els Van Since then, she has been a
Laethem is active as soloist welcome guest in performances
in the oratorio and cantata of Handel’s The Messiah,
repertoire. In addition to early Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and
music, she is also interested St. John’s Passion, St. Matthew’s
Passion and the Christmas
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in more alternative forms of

music. She participated in in Oratorio by Bach. With Euterpe
productions such as Het huis Baroque Consort, where she is
singers sopranos & mezzo-sopranos

der verborgen muziekjes, Gloria a regular soloist, she is able

and Cara mia by composer to indulge herself in works
Dick van der Harst, Songs from by Monteverdi, Carissimi and
mirage with Aranis conducted contemporaries. She has
by Joris Vanvinckenroye, contributed to numerous CD
Mozart machine with Bl!NDMAN recordings, including with
conducted by Eric Sleichim, organist Jan Van Mol. For the
Urban Stranger with Score Vlaams Radiokoor she sang the
Man conducted by Thomas soprano solos in recordings
De Prins. She has made CD with music by J.S. Bach, Sergei
recordings for contemporary Rachmaninov and Johan Duijck.
music composers Jeroen D’hoe, As an ensemble singer, Sarah
Wim Mertens and George De is a permanent part of the
Decker. In the duo Plutôt Vénus Vlaams Radiokoor and regularly
with Dick van der Harst, she sings with other professional
presents arranged music from ensembles, including Collegium
all periods, including her own Vocale Gent, the Netherlands
compositions. With ensemble Bach Society, Gli Angeli Genève,
Oxalys she recently recorded Psallentes, all from a very
the CD Tusschen de twee, with diverse repertoire ranging from
lieder by Dick van der Harst Renaissance through Baroque
to texts by Guido Gezelle. She to Contemporary. Bo Holten
also took part in the dance wrote the soprano solo in his
productions En Atendant en composition ‘Handle Variations
Cesena by Rosas, under the with Care’ especially for her
direction of Anne Teresa De voice. As a music educator
Keersmaeker. she is affiliated with the music
academy of Lier.
—
+32 479 22 73 63
[email protected]
www.sarahvanmol.be

Kerlijne Van Nevel – 
mezzo-soprano
Renaissance

The Belgian mezzo-soprano,

Kerlijne Van Nevel, studied at
LUCA School of Arts campus
Lemmens and the Royal
Conservatory of The Hague,
where she specialized in Early
Music. Kerlijne Van Nevel has
enjoyed working with several

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renowned conductors, such
as Philippe Herreweghe, Dirk
Brossé, Bart Van Reyn, Kurt
Bikkembergs, and Barthold
Kuijken. She is a regular
member of the ensemble
Currende and Psallentes
and is frequently invited as
a soloist with various choirs
and ensembles (Vox Luminis,
Tourdion). In 2006, Kerlijne
Van Nevel founded the vocal
quartet, Encantar. The four
young female singers perform
polyphonic music from the
14th, 15th and 16th centuries,
mostly a cappella. In 2008,
they were prize-winners in the
Gouden Vleugels Competition
and gave a series of concerts
with the ensemble Il Gardellino.
In February 2009, Encantar
was awarded the Klara-
Tandemtrofee for the most
unforgettable performance
of the competition. In 2010
she recorded four discs with
Encantar, Flanders Recorder
Quartet, Currende and Vox
Luminis and in December of the
same year appeared as soloist
in Monteverdi’s Vespers.
—
[email protected]
 1.2. Stratton Bull – c ountertenor
Singers Renaissance
Label Challenge Classics, Challenge
Records, Ricercar

After graduating from his

language and literature studies,
Stratton Bull studied voice at
the Conservatory in his home
town Toronto and later at the
Royal Conservatoire of The
Hague. He has performed with
leading ensembles in Europe
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1.2.2. Altos &

and North America, including
countertenors
Tafelmusik Toronto, Hespèrion
singers altos & countertenors

XXI, Cappella Pratensis, Cantus

Cölln and Capilla Flamenca, and
has been singing with Cappella
Pratensis since 1988, shortly
after the ensemble was founded.
Stratton has been the artistic
director of Cappella Pratensis
since 2004. His special interest
is interpreting 15th and 16th
century polyphony based on the
old notation. He regularly gives
workshops and masterclasses
on the subject, including at
the Royal Conservatoire of The
Hague and the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis. Through his work
at the Alamire Foundation
(International Centre for the
Study of Music in the Low
Countries, KU Leuven), he works
closely with musicologists on
projects related to the music
that Cappella Pratensis sings,
including the digitisation of
late-medieval choirbooks.
—
[email protected]
www.cappellapratensis.nl
www.alamirefoundation.org/nl/
organisatie/staf/stratton-bull

Marnix De Cat – countertenor Jonathan De Ceuster –
Middle Ages – 21st century countertenor
Label Etcetera Records, Musique Renaissance - 21th century
en Wallonie, Eufoda, Ramée, Alpha
Classics, CPO, Ricercar
Belgian countertenor Jonathan
De Ceuster studied at the Royal
The Belgian counter-tenor, Conservatoire of Antwerp,
conductor, organist and the Brussels Conservatoire,
percussion player, Marnix the Conservatoire de Metz
De Cat graduated from the and the Royal Academy of
LUCA School of Arts campus Music in London. Jonathan
Lemmens in Leuven earning a is active in both the opera
First Prize in organ, harmony and music theatre fields and

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and counterpoint. He also has performed Baroque and
studied singing, percussion contemporary operas at the
and fugue, and received a First opera houses of Antwerp,
Prize in choral conducting. Ghent, Düsseldorf, Strasbourg,
Marnix De Cat sings and plays Geneva, Venice and numerous
music from the 14th to the theatres all over Europe. He
21st century. He founded the has sung the world premières
Pluto-ensemble. Marnix is a of Achilleus (Henderickx),
permanent member of the Richard III (Battistelli), Intra
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam Muros (Sleichim), HRZSCHMRZ
(alto, since 2002). From 1996 (Verstockt), and JJR (Phénelon).
till 2013 he was one of the four On the choral scene, Jonathan
permanent core members regularly works with several
of the Capilla Flamenca, early music ensembles such
participating in its worldwide as Collegium Vocale Gent,
tours. In addition, he regularly Amsterdam Baroque Choir,
collaborates with the Collegium Netherlands Bach Society,
Vocale Gent, Currende, Weser- CantoLX, Chœur de Chambre
Renaissance and Huelgas de Namur and BachPlus. He has
Ensemble. As a soloist he performed worldwide under the
worked with conductors such baton of Philippe Herreweghe,
as Gustav Leonhardt, Philippe Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken
Herreweghe, and Jos van and many other outstanding
Immerseel, and as a singer in conductors.
modern dance productions —
with Alain Platel, Sidi Larbi +32 477 61 77 10
Cherkaoui and K. Augustijnen. [email protected],
Marnix De Cat collaborated on www.jonathandeceuster.com
about 95 CD-recordings. Ariën Arts & Music Management, b.v.,
— management
[email protected] Pascale Montauban
+32 9 330 39 90
[email protected]
 Steve Dugardin – altus foundation of ‘Touchant’, a men’s
Renaissance - 21st century quartet specialised in Close
Label AMG Records, Bolli records, Harmony.
Fuga Libera, Opus 111 —
[email protected]
Steve Dugardin studied www.stevedugardin.be
with Aimée Thonon and
Marie-Thérèse Maesen, and
subsequently with Lucienne Van Bart Uvyn – countertenor
Dijck at the Royal Conservatoire Renaissance -Baroque
Antwerp. He quickly began
collaborating as a chorister in Countertenor Bart Uvyn studied
productions conducted by Erik at LUCA School of Arts campus
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Van Nevel, Sigiswald Kuijken, Jos Lemmens in Leuven and at

van Immerseel, Ton Koopman, the Royal Conservatory in The
singers altos & countertenors

Gustav Leonhardt and Frans Hague. Bart Uvyn is regularly

Brüggen. He also sang for invited by ensembles such as
more than 10 years in Philippe Capilla Flamenca, Psallentes,
Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale Vox Luminis and Sette Voci. He
Gent. As a soloist he has also participated in various
regularly worked among others projects of BachPlus and
with Ricercar Consort, Les Arts Bl!NDMAN. Bart is also a fixed
Florissants, Il Fondamento, ensemble member of Currende
Huelgas Ensemble, Chœur de (Erik Van Nevel) and often
Chambre de Namur, La Petite participates in projects with
Bande, Musica Antiqua Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent. He’s
and the Netherlands Bach co-founder of Utopia - Belgian
Society. Recently he could be Handmade Polyphony’. In 2010
heard with Ensemble Clematis he sang the role of Philibert
conducted by Leonardo Naturel in the opera ‘Rage
García Alarcón. Various CD d’Amours’ by Rob Zuidam
recordings were made of many conducted by Otto Tausk. In the
of these collaborations. Steve near future he sings in different
Dugardin has extensive theatre productions with Collegium
experience. He has performed Vocale Gent, Utopia, BachPlus
in operas by Scarlatti, Handel and the Netherlands Bach
and Cavalli. He also took Society.
on the title role in Philip —
Glass’s Akhnaten. He became +32 474 28 18 93
acquainted with the dance [email protected]
www.bartuvyn.be
scene through his participation
in ‘Iets op Bach’ by Alain
Platel. This was followed by
collaborations with Jan Decleir,
NTGent Muziektheater, Hollands
Diep, LOD Muziektheater Gent
and Toneelgroep Amsterdam.
His passion for contemporary

music led among others to the

1.2. Guy De Mey – tenor
Singers Baroque -Classicism
Label Harmonia Mundi, Ricercar,
Eufoda

Belgian tenor Guy De Mey

studied voice under Stella
Dalberg, Erna Spoorenberg,
Sir Peter Pears and Eric Tappy.
He has performed at La Scala,
Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, Liceu Barcelona, and
Teatro Real de Madrid. Recent

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1.2.3. Tenors
performances include the opera
houses of Zurich and Nancy,
De Munt, and the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich. His
discography – some fifty
recordings – attests to the
scope of his repertoire. Over
the years he has recorded for
various major labels and in that
context worked with conductors
such as John Eliot Gardiner, Ton
Koopman, Roger Norrington,
Michel Corboz, William Christie.
Various recordings have
been awarded international
prizes (Grand Prix du Disque,
Deutscher Schallplattenpreis,
Caecilia Award, Diapason d’Or).
—
Ariën Arts & Music Management, b.v.,
management
Pascale Montauban
+32 9 330 39 90
[email protected]

Tore Tom Denys – tenor

Renaissance - Romanticism
Label Etcetera Records, Musique en
Wallonie, Eufoda, Ricercar, Hyperion

Tore Tom Denys studied at the

University of Antwerp, and was
(1994 – 1998) a member of the
World Youth Choir. This led
him to developing a love for
early music, so he decided to
 swap the trumpet for singing. and Orff. As an ensemble
He is a co-founder of the singer he performs with the
ensembles Cinquecento and Chœur de Chambre de Namur,
vivante (first prize winners at L’Arpeggiata, Akadêmia,
the International H. Schmelzer Collegium Vocale Gent, RIAS
Competition in Melk). For ten Kammerchor, Ictus and
years he has been the tenor with Oltremontano. For years he has
the Belgian ensemble Capilla been conducting the Brussels
Flamenca. His solo career has Bachkoor and Clockwork Music
seen him perform at a variety Brussels. His own ensemble
of festivals in Austria including Querelles specialises in 17th
Wien Modern, Resonanzen, century protestant figural
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Styriarte, Salzburger music. Vincent Lesage has lived

Festspiele, Bregenzer in Leipzig since 2020, where
Festspiele and Carinthischer he studied the Sammlung
singers tenors

Sommer, amongst others. Jacobi in Grimma, one of the

Performances abroad have most important sources of
taken him to the Ludwigsburger this repertoire prior to Bach's
Schlossfestspiele, Festival appointment as a cantor at St.
Schloss Herrenhausen, Festival Thomas' church. Vincent Lesage
van Vlaanderen, Festival Oude is also active in theatre: he
Muziek Utrecht, and Ferrara contributes to music theatre
Musica Festival. Collaborations and opera productions at De
with a variety of conductors Munt, Opéra Royal de Wallonie,
and artists (including Arvo Pärt, the Flemish Opera, LOD
Leonard Slatkin, Tonu Kaljuste, muziektheater Gent and the
Philippe Herreweghe, Heinz Volksopera.
Karl Gruber, Otto Zykan, Frieder —
Bernius, Vittorio Ghielmi) have [email protected]
enriched his experiences as a
performer.
— Stephan Van Dyck – tenor
+43 664 232 34 69 Renaissance – 21st century
[email protected] Label Harmonia Mundi, Sony, Naxos,
Fnac music, Alpha, Ricercar, Opus
111, Bis, Zig-Zag Territoires, Musique
en Wallonie, Accent
Vincent Lesage – tenor
Baroque
Stephan Van Dyck studied
Vincent Lesage studied singing at the Royal
musicology at KU Leuven and Conservatory Brussels and
baroque violin and voice at the Musicology at the University
Royal Conservatory of Brussels. of Brussels; he continued his
As a tenor with a focus on studies at the Studio Versailles-
early music and oratorio, he Opéra with René Jacobs and
is in demand for solo parts in Rachel Yakar. He obtained a
the works of Bach, Telemann, degree at the Conservatoire
Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn up national supérieur de musique

to and including Verdi, Puccini et de danse de Paris in the

class of William Christie. He has
worked with La Chapelle Royale, Fenice. He has performed lieder
Huelgas Ensemble, Ensemble recitals with Jos van Immerseel,
Clément Janequin. He has sung Claire Chevallier and Tom
as a soloist for Christophe Beghin. He is also a lecturer at
Rousset, William Christie, the academy in Lier (Belgium)
Philippe Pierlot, Ton Koopman, and at the Hochschule für Musik
and Sigiswald Kuijken. He van Trossingen (Germany).
sang in operas of Boismortier, —
Cavalieri, Monteverdi, and [email protected]
Rameau. He is a teacher at
the Nivelles Music School and
instructor at the Conservatoire Reinoud Van Mechelen –
tenor

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royal de Bruxelles. He
taught Masterclasses at the Baroque
Conservatories of Toulouse, Label Alpha Classics

Oslo, Warsaw, Den Haag and at
the Centre de musique Baroque Reinoud Van Mechelen obtained
de Versailles. He recorded two his Master’s degree in 2012
CDs with his ensemble Musica at the Royal Conservatory
Favola. of Brussels. In 2017 he was
— awarded the prestigious
[email protected] Caecilia Prize as Young Musician
[email protected] of the Year by the Association
of the Belgian Music Press.
Reinoud regularly performs
Jan Van Elsacker – tenor with several major Baroque
Renaissance - Romanticism ensembles, including Les
Label Virgin Classics, Etcetera Arts Florissants, Collegium
Records, Harmonia Mundi, Codaex, Vocale Gent, La Petite Bande,
Ricercar, Musique en Wallonie, Zig-
Il Gardellino, B’Rock, Scherzi
Zag Territoires, Passacaille, Cantus,
Naxos
Musicali and the European
Union Baroque Orchestra.
In 1996 Jan Van Elsacker became He has also made a name for
laureate of the international himself as opera singer with
competition Musica Antiqua a role debut in 2019-2020 as
Brugge. His preference is Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at
for early Italian baroque. In the Opéra de Toulon, Purcell’s
January 2008 he sang the title King Arthur at the Staatsoper
role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo Berlin, Rameaus Pygmalion
(National Opera of Poland) at the Grand Théâtre de
in collaboration with La Luxembourg, L’Incoronazione di
Fenice, a production that was Poppea (Arnalta) in the Théâtre
revived in France and Spain in des Champs-Elysées and both
2015-2016. Jan Van Elsacker the St John Passion and the St
regularly collaborates with Matthew Passion with Collegium
renowned companies such Vocale Gent. The first CD in
as Concerto Palatino, Le his own name of 2016 (with his
ensemble a nocte temporis),

Poème Harmonique, Weser-

Renaissance Bremen, and La entitled Erbarme dich, received
 unanimous praise from the 1.2.
press and was awarded a Choc Singers
Classica and a Caecilia Prize
2016. In the meantime 4 more a
nocte temporis CDs have been
released by Alpha Classics.
—
[email protected]
www.reinoudvanmechelen.be
Laurent Delage Artists Management,
management
[email protected]
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1.2.4. Baritones &

basses
singers tenors

Nicolas Achten – baritone [email protected]
Renaissance - 21st century (jazz) www.concerts-weinstadt.com
Label Erato, Alpha, Musique en
Wallonie, Ricercar, Deutsche
Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi,
Lieven Deroo – bass
Challenge Records, Virgin, Ars
Renaissance - 21st century
Produktion

Lieven Deroo studied economics

Nicolas Achten studied singing,
and then flute at the Royal Con­
lute, harpsichord and ancient
ser­vatory of Brussels. He first
harp at the Royal Conservatories
received voice lessons from
of Brussels and The Hague; he
Rita Piron; after that he went
completed his training in various
on to perfect himself with Guus

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masterclasses, notably at the
Hoekman in the Netherlands
Baroque Academy of Ambronay
and with educator Lucie Frateur.
and at the Centre de la Voix de
As a professional vocalist,
Royaumont. Since 2004 he has
he was able to start early on
been invited by prestigious early
with the Choir of the National
music ensembles, including
Opera and since 1985 he has
La Petite Bande, Ausonia, Les
been a member of the BRTN
Agrémens, Akadêmia, Les Talens
Choir – the current Vlaams
Lyriques, Il Fondamento, Les
Radiokoor – with which he
Musiciens du Louvre, Le Poème
presents some fifty concerts
Harmonique, Akademie für Alte
each year. As a bass soloist
Musik Berlin, and under the
he has sang in more than 250
direction of conductors such as
concerts at home and abroad,
Jean Tubéry, Sigiswald Kuijken,
including for radio, television
Marc Minkowski, Christophe
and the Festival of Flanders.
Rousset and René Jacobs. Today
His repertoire includes works
he is one of the few classical
from the Renaissance to the
singers to accompany himself,
present day. He specialises in
returning to historical practice.
Masses, cantatas, passions and
Eager to deepen this approach
oratorios from the Baroque and
and to put his research into
Classical periods. As a freelance
practice, he founded the
ensemble singer he can still be
ensemble Scherzi Musicali. In the
heard with among others the
margins, Nicolas also explores
Nederlands Kamerkoor, La Petite
atypical encounters, in duet with
Bande, Il Fondamento, Anima
folk accordionist Dider Laloy,
Eterna Brugge, Collegium Vocale
or in trio with jazz saxophonist
Gent, Psallentes, Currende,
Manu Hermia or pop/rock
Vox Luminis and the Huelgas
singer Kris Dane. Nicolas Achten
Ensemble conducted by Paul
teaches singing, lute and applied
Van Nevel with whom he has
early music theory at the Royal
performed numerous concerts
Conservatory of Brussels.
—
at home and abroad, and has
www.nicolasachten.be collaborated on some 17 of their
Weinstadt Artists Management, CD recordings.
management —
Luc Van Loocke [email protected]
 Pieter Stas – bass premiere the Lukas-Passion
Renaissance - 21st century by Homilius/C.P.E. Bach. Since
2015, Lieven Termont has
Pieter Stas studied cello at the been part of Utopia, a five-part
conservatories of Ghent and vocal ensemble with a focus
Antwerp with France Springuel on 16th-century polyphony,
and Ilja Laporev. In addition to of which a third CD will be
being a cellist, he is also active released in 2021. Lieven
as vocalist. He was selected Termont obtained a Masters
for the European Youth Choir in music from LUCA School
and the World Youth Choir. of Arts Lemmens Campus in
Currently he is mainly active Leuven and studied under
as a vocalist with Capella Reial
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Lieve Vanhaverbeke, Maarten

de Catalunya and Vox Luminis. Koningsberger and Jard Van
As a teacher he is currently Nes. Lieven is a laureate
singers baritones & basses

affiliated with the Bornem of the Erna Spoorenberg

music academy. Pieter Stas Vocalisten Presentatie 1996
is a founding member of the in the Netherlands and is a
Goeyvaerts String Trio. voice teacher at the SLAC/
— Conservatorium in Leuven and
[email protected] the music academies of Aalter
(Art A’A) and Aalst (Utopia).
—
Lieven Termont – baritone [email protected]
Renaissance - Classicism
Label Eufoda, Etcetera Records,
Passacaille, Musique en Wallonie,
Jan Van der Crabben –
Ricercar, Harmonia Mundi, Sony
classical baritone
Baroque - 21th century
Label Accent, Etcetera Records, Fuga
Lieven Termont is a well-known Libera, Senzanome, Naxos, Phaedra
name in the world of early
music. As soloist, the Belgian Jan Van der Crabben studied
baritone has sung under the piano and then voice at the
baton of Paul Dombrecht, Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Philippe Pierlot, Erik Van Nevel, Van der Crabben has been a
Florian Heyerick, Paul Van frequent guest at important
Nevel and Marcel Ponseele. festivals in the Netherlands and
As a soloist and in ensembles, abroad. In 1990 he was awarded
Lieven Termont has performed the ‘Prix de la meilleure
throughout Europe, North and interprétation de la Mélodie
South America and Southeast en langue française’ and the
Asia, and can be heard on ‘Grand prix de la musique
more than sixty CDs; mostly contemporaine’ at the Concours
with Capilla Flamenca and the international d’oratorio et de
Huelgas Ensemble. As a soloist Lied. His repertoire extends
in the Baroque repertoire, he from Baroque to Contemporary.
can be heard on a series of As a baroque vocalist he often

Bach CDs with Il Gardellino and collaborates with renowned

with Il Fondamento in the world
companies such as La Petite
Bande, the Netherlands Bach
Society and Musica Antiqua
Köln. His regular accompanist
as lieder vocalist is Inge
Spinette. Together they present
recitals with works from
both the French and German
Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Duparc,
Poulenc, Schubert, Wolf and
Strauss.

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 1.3. Frank Agsteribbe – organ,
Instrumentalists harpsichord
Baroque - 21st century
Label Etcetera Records, Passacaille,
Accent, Phaedra, Cassa Nova Records

Frank Agsteribbe is a versatile

musician who profiles himself
as a conductor, composer, key-
board player and graphic artist.
In all his activities, he looks
for direct expression, plastici-
1.3.1. Keyboard ty and lively colourfulness, in
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Instruments opera as well as in Baroque or

Contemporary music. He is es-
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

pecially interested in the points

of contact between music of the
17th or 18th century and the
music of today. After studying
organ and harpsichord, he
played with the most prominent
Flemish baroque ensembles (La
Petite Bande, Collegium Vocale
Gent, Huelgas Ensemble, Anima
Eterna Brugge, Il Fondamento).
He was co-founder, conductor
and harpsichordist of B’Rock,
assistant conductor at De
Munt and the Aix-en-Provence
Festival, and is founder and first
conductor of the vocal ensem-
ble cantoLX from Luxembourg.
He has performed with violinist
Guido de Neve in work by J.S.
Bach, in Flemish music from the
18th century and in contempo-
rary work. Frank Agsteribbe has
more than 100 compositions to
his credit, most of which were
commissioned.
—
[email protected]
www.frankagsteribbe.be

Tom Beghin – pianoforte Korneel Bernolet –
Baroque - Romanticism harpsichord
Label Eufoda, Etcetera Records, Baroque – 20th century
Naxos, EPR-Classic Label Ramée, Aliud, Apotheosis
Records, Etcetera Records, Ricercar,
Tom Beghin combines a Alpha, Musica Ficta, Accent
career as performer with
that of researcher and A conductor and harpsichordist,
teacher. His published work Korneel Bernolet is one of the
spans various media, from most versatile talents of the
commercially released CDs to international music scene today.
academic essays and books. He studied with Paul Clement,
His monograph The Virtual Ewald Demeyere, Gustav

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Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty- Leonhardt and Christophe
First-Century Keyboardist Rousset, and obtained Master
(Chicago, 2015) followed his degrees in both harpsichord
recording of the complete solo and conducting at the Royal
Haydn keyboard works (Naxos Conservatoire of Antwerp.
2009/2011). He co-edited Korneel made his debut as a
Haydn and the Performance of continuo player with Sigiswald
Rhetoric, winner of the 2009 Kuijken’s La Petite Bande, was
AMS R. Solie Award. 2017 saw named ‘Young Musician of the
the birth of Inside the Hearing Year’ in 2014 by the Belgian
Machine, an amalgam of Music Press Association,
publications on Beethoven’s late and two years later was
piano sonatas and deafness. appointed the new Professor
Results of a research project on of Harpsichord at the AP
Beethoven’s 1803 Erard piano Hogeschool Antwerpen – Royal
are forthcoming. Alumnus of the Conservatoire of Antwerp. With
HIP-doctoral program at Cornell his own Apotheosis Orchestra
University, Prof. Beghin taught on period instruments, he
at UCLA and McGill University. plays and conducts music from
Since 2015, he has been Senior Baroque until the high Romantic
Researcher and Principal era. The group has produced
Investigator at the Orpheus several chamber music CDs
Institute for Advanced Studies since 2011. Korneel Bernolet is
& Research in Music, in Ghent, active world-wide as a recital
Belgium, while also serving soloist (throughout Europe,
on the Associated Faculty of South-Korea and Australia) and
the Arts of the University of as an ensemble player, amongst
Leuven. His research cluster, the above mentioned also with
Declassifying the Classics, B’Rock, Il Gardellino,Vlaams
focuses on the intersections Radiokoor, BachPlus, Scherzi
of technology, rhetoric, and Musicali, Transports Publics,
performance. Utopia, several smaller
— ensembles and as a duo partner
[email protected] of Christophe Rousset, Ewald
www.orpheusinstituut.be/ Demeyere and Bart Naessens.
en/orpheus-research-centre/ —
researchers/tom-beghin
 [email protected] der Künste Berlin. Lucas
www.bernolet.com Blondeel spent many years
studying historical performance
and pianoforte with Jos van
Els Biesemans – pianoforte, Immerseel, Bart van Oort and
organ, harpsichord, piano Malcolm Bilson. He performs on
Middle Ages - 21st century historical as well as on modern
Label Ramée, Genuin, Alpha Classics, instruments. He won prizes in
Animato, Etcetera Records international competitions in
Antwerp, Geneva, Zurich, Berlin
Els Biesemans is a pianist, an and Cincinnati and performed
organist, a chamber musician, in most European countries,
and the initiator and director
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the United States, China, Japan

of Zurich’s Flügelschläge and Singapore. His passion for
pianoforte festival. She studied Lieder was rewarded with the
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

in Leuven and at the Schola prize for best Lied accompanist

Cantorum Basiliensis. With a at the La Voce Competition of
performance repertoire ranging the Bavarian Radio in Bayreuth.
from medieval to modern His recordings include the
music, Els Biesemans has won Schubert Impromptus (Klara),
the Ciurlionis Competition Für Marianne with music by
in Vilnius and was awarded Haydn (Cypres Records), cham-
the Arp-Schnitger Prize at the ber music by Albert Huybrechts
Bremen Music Festival. Both (Cypres Records), From 2012 to
in Switzerland and abroad, 2019, he taught a piano and pi-
she performs as a soloist anoforte class at the Akademie
on the pianoforte, on the für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. He
organ, and with her chamber gives regular masterclasses
music ensemble Elsewhere. in Belgium, the Netherlands,
Els Biesemans is celebrated Germany, Hungary, China and
as an interpreter of famous Italy. In April 2018 he was ap-
composers, but also as a pointed professor for piano and
discoverer of forgotten music. pianoforte at the Universität der
— Künste Berlin.
[email protected] —
www.elsbiesemans.be [email protected]
www.lucasblondeel.com
www.callot-blondeel.be
Lucas Blondeel – piano,
pianoforte
Classicism - 21st century (with Nicolas Callot – p iano,
a focus on the works of Haydn, pianoforte, clavichord
Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Baroque - 19th century
Schumann and Debussy) Label Phaedra, Warner/Klara, Warner
Label Klara, Cypres Records,
Classics, Enigma Records, BB-Classics
Phaedra, Warner, Genuin, Fuga Libera
Nicolas Callot studied at the
Lucas Blondeel studied at Conservatory of Amsterdam

the Royal Conservatoire of and took lessons with Elisabeth

Antwerp and at the Universität
Leonskaja and Jan Wijn. Claire Chevallier is a celebrated
Nicolas Callot won numerous pianist of solo recitals, chamber
National Competitions and concerts and concerts with
was a Laureate of the Brahms orchestra. She is world-
Competition in Austria. renowned for her performances
He performed with several and recordings. Claire is
important orchestras, specialized in historically
culminating in his recent informed performance: she
performance with the Antwerp re-actualizes music on old
Symphony Orchestra under instruments. She also has her
Philippe Herreweghe. He own collection of historical
released a solo-piano CD for the pianos, consisting of six

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label Phaedra, and two CDs with grand pianos from the period
his piano-duo partner Lucas 1840-1920. Claire teaches
Blondeel for the Warner Classics at the Conservatoire Royal
label. As a lied-accompanist de Bruxelles and served on
he works regularly with the panel of judges for the
Hendrickje Van Kerckhove. In Liszt Concours in Utrecht
2017, together with Bart Rodyns and the International Chopin
he founded the duo Zeitspiel. Competition of Warschau,
Besides the modern piano he amongst others. She’s an
also performs on historical expert of the works of French
instruments and was guided by composers such as Ravel,
Malcolm Bilson. Nicolas Callot Debussy, Satie, and Poulenc.
teaches piano and chamber Her recording of Ravel’s
music at the Academy of Music Concerto pour la main gauche
and Performing Arts of Tilburg with Anima Eterna Brugge is
and at de!KUNSTHUMANIORA. a landmark in the world of
He was assistant teacher classical music. Chevallier has
of Mila Baslawskaja at the also extensively worked with
Conservatory of Amsterdam. performing and other artists,
He gave masterclasses in China such as Rosas, David Claerbout,
and Trondheim (Norway). Josse De Pauw and Jan Lauwers
Besides his career as a pianist (Needcompany).
and teacher, he also works —
as a recording engineer and [email protected]
supervisor for different labels. www.clairechevallier.com
—
[email protected]
www.nicolascollet.be Dimos de Beun – r ecorder,
www.callot-blondeel.be harpsichord, continuo organ
Renaissance – Baroque
Label Aeolus, Harp&Co, Etcetera
Claire Chevallier – Records, Eufoda
pianoforte, piano
Classicism - 20th century Dimos de Beun studied
Label Zig-Zag Territoires, Outhere, recorder at the Royal
Cypres Records, Alpha Classics, Conservatory in Brussels,
Passacaille and harpsichord at the Royal
 Conservatories of Brussels the field of partimento and
and Antwerp. He studied historical improvisation. In
organ under Ignace Michiels 2013, he was a member of
and Joris Verdin in Bruges the jury for the international
and Antwerp. As a recorder harpsichord competition Paola
and continuo player he has Bernardi in Bologna. In 2018 he
worked with ensembles such won the CPEB: CW Counterpoint
as La Petite Bande, Ricercar Contest where the jury was
Consort, Huelgas Ensemble, Ex unanimous in his opinion that
Tempore, Vlaams Radiokoor, his ‘Ricercar a 5 per cembalo’
Collegium Vocale Gent, B’Rock, is the most accomplished
Rosas, Currende, Akademie für and natural in its flow.
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Alte Musik Berlin, Il Gardellino Demeyere teaches partimento,

and Zefiro Torna. He has improvisation, oratorio and
participated in TV productions historical performance practice
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

and CD recordings, both solo at the Royal Conservatoire of

and in ensemble, and with Antwerp and is a main subject
various international labels. teacher of harpsichord,
He is a teacher of recorder, partimento and improvisation
harpsichord and ensemble at the Institut Supérieur de
playing at the Academies of Musique et de Pédagogie of
Waregem, Blankenberge and the Namur, where he also heads the
Bruges Conservatory. Together Early Music department.
with Annelies Decock, he —
founded the Baroque ensemble [email protected]
Arcus Coloratus. www.ewalddemeyere.com
—
[email protected]
Luc Devos – piano, pianoforte
Baroque - 21st century
Label Accent, Ricercar, EMI, Famos
Ewald Demeyere –
Records, Naxos, Cypres Records, B&B,
harpsichord Marco Polo, Olympia, Mozarteum
Renaissance - Baroque Belgicum, Gallo, Terpsichore
Label Accent, Challenge Classics

After his studies in Leuven,

Ewald Demeyere is a
London, Brussels and Paris,
harpsichordist, conductor,
Luc Devos won multiple
music theorist and professor.
competitions in the Benelux:
He believes that the conveying
Tenuto, Stephan De Jonghe, the
of the emotional contents of
Prize for the best interpretation
a composition is a performing
of a contemporary work (Tromp
artist’s most important task. As
Competition Eindhoven, 1979),
a performing artist, Demeyere
the Emmanuel Durlet prize.
has taken part in more than 100
In 1983 he won First Prize at
CD recordings, many of which
the international Frédéric
with solo and chamber music
Chopin Competition in Palma
repertoire (working with, among
de Mallorca and in the same
others, Barthold Kuijken). Today

year he was finalist at the

he is one of the specialists in
Clara Haskil Competition
in Montreux. Luc Devos has organ festivals and concert
performed in recitals and series in the Netherlands and
as a soloist with renowned abroad. In addition to the
orchestras such as the Tonhalle historical organ, she also plays
Orchester Zürich, het Brabants the portative organ: the first
Orkest, Orchester de la Suisse type of organ created in the
Romande, Salzburger Solisten Middle Ages. Iris completed the
and all the major Belgian Gregorian chant programme
orchestras. He also has strong at the Centrum Gregoriaans
affinity for chamber music and in Drongen in 2019. She
has given concerts with Jules sings with the renowned
Bastin, Yuzuko Horigome, Philip Schola Trunchiniensis Femina

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Hirschhorn, Arthur Grumiaux, conducted by Peter Canniere.
José van Dam, Sigiswald and Together with organist Marie-
Barthold Kuijken. Moreover, Noëlle Bette, she forms the
he is also the pianist of the duo 64-Feet, which translates
Arthur Grumiaux Trio. In 1994 the earliest keyboard music
he was awarded the title jeune into a contemporary sound.
musicien européen de l’année And vice versa: in contrast
by l’Union de la Presse Musicale to ancient music, 64-Feet
Belge. Luc Devos has made interprets compositions from
several recordings, including contemporary music. 64-Feet
Chopin’s mazurkas, impromptus also uses a wide variety of other
and nocturnes, works by Liszt, instruments in addition to the
Schubert and Prokofiev, and large organ: Korg synthesizer
Mozart’s violin sonatas with R3, voice, Doepfer, Rossignol-
Sigiswald Kuijken on period portative (Pels-D’Hondt), tape,
instruments. melodica, organ pipes, portative
— organ. Iris is a teacher of organ,
+32 16 26 18 99 keyboard, accompaniment
[email protected] practice and piano lab at
academy De Noorderkempen in
Hoogstraten and Baarle-Hertog,
Iris Eysermans – organ, and the academy for music,
portative organ word and dance in Heist-op-
Middle Ages - 21st century den-Berg.
Label ChampdAction —
[email protected]
Iris Eysermans graduated as www.iriseysermans2.webnode.nl
organist at the conservatories www.64-feet.be
of Antwerp under Joris Verdin
and Rotterdam under Bas de
Vroome. Her greatest passion Bart Jacobs – organ,
is early music: the Middle harpsichord
Ages and the Renaissance, but Renaissance - 21st century
also new music – in particular Label Ricercar, Organroxx, Ramée,
graphic notation – are part of Montefagorum, Eufoda, Alpha, Musica
her performance practice. Iris Ficta, Aeolian
has given concerts at various
 Bart Jacobs studied organ, Piet Kuijken – piano,
harpsichord, chamber music pianoforte
and figured bass with Reitze Baroque - 21st century
Smits and Kris Verhelst at the Label Passacaille, Fuga Libera,
LUCA School of Arts campus Accent, Arcana, Phaedra, Etcetera
Lemmens in Leuven. Between Records, Channel Classics, René
Gailly, Denon, Hänssler Verlag
2006-2010 he won prizes at the
international organ competi-
tions of Alkmaar, Amsterdam Piet Kuijken is a student of Jan
and Bruges. As soloist and Vermeulen; he studied at the
continuo player, he has toured Royal Conservatory in Brussels
extensively across Europe and under Jan Michiels, Arie van
Lysebeth and André De Groote.
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collaborated with renowned en-

sembles including Vox Luminis, He graduated with the highest
Les Muffatti, Hathor Consort, honours from the piano and
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

Il Gardellino, Psallentes, chamber music classes. He

Currende, Collegium Ad Mosam, has appeared at solo recitals,
His debut solo albums have played with chamber ensembles
been enthusiastically received and orchestras under the
at home and abroad. The CD Ein baton of conductors such as
Feste Burg ist unser Gott (2016) Avim Ostrovski, Zeeve Dorman,
was awarded with prizes in- Robert Groslot, Norbert Nozy,
cluding CHOC de Classica 2017, Etienne Siebens, Silveer van
Diapason 5 and Gramophone den Broeck, Robert Casteels
Editor’s Choice 2017. The CD and Wieland Kuijken. He has
Concertos for organ and strings performed in many European
(2019), with his own reconstruc- countries, as well as Japan
tions of concertos for organ and the United States. His
and strings by J. S. Bach and wide repertoire spans from
performed with the Baroque the Baroque to modern
orchestra Les Muffatti, received music; he performs on the
the most prestigious awards at harpsichord, pianos of various
home and abroad. Bart Jacobs historical periods, and on
has cooperated with All of Bach, modern instruments. Since
a project of the Netherlands 1988, he has been linked with
Bach Society. He is co-founder the Prometheus Ensemble,
of the Vlaamse Klavecimbel and has appeared in duos
Vereniging (the Flemish with pianist Bart Meynckens,
Harpsichord Society), which clarinettist Henk Soen, cellist
aims to enlarge the public’s Karel Steylaerts, and his father
interest in the harpsichord by Wieland Kuijken. He has also
organizing annual Harpsichord on numerous occasions played
Days, workshops and public with the Oxalys, Ictus and Ensor
master classes. ensembles, as well as Anne
— Cambier, Olga Pasiecznik, His
[email protected] discography includes works
www.bartjacobs.eu by Luc van Hove, the chamber
works of Debussy, as well as

the complete viola da gamba

sonatas of Johann Sebastian all Bartók, all Brahms (piano
Bach.With Karel Steylaerts, he solo and chamber music with
recorded the complete cello piano). As a soloist he worked
and piano works of Joseph with numerous conductors,
Jongen. orchestras and ensembles -
— with Inge Spinette he forms the
[email protected] piano duo YinYang.
www.pietkuijken.be —
[email protected]
www.michielsjan.be
Jan Michiels – piano
Baroque - 21st century
Label Fuga Libera, Etcetera Records, Bart Naessens – organ

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Eufoda, Cypres Records, Klara, Renaissance - 21st century
Megadisc MDC, Audiomax, Pavane Label Etcetera Records

Since being a laureate in the Bart Naessens studied organ

Brussels Queen Elizabeth under Luc Ponet and obtained
competition 1991, Jan Michiels his specialisation diploma in
has been known for his very organ in Paris in the domain
personal and multi-layered of ‘French symphonic organ
approach to the piano music’. In 2007 he graduated
repertoire, combining old in harpsichord and in 2008 he
and new in always changing obtained his master’s degree
perspectives. Numerous in orchestral conducting.
recordings testify his activity - Bart’s musical activities take
to quote a few, ‘Lost in Venice place in many different areas.
with Prometheus’, ‘The War of He is a highly respected
the Romantics’ or ‘Slavic Soul’ and appreciated continuo
contain music from Bach till player, and can be seen
today seen from the position both solo and in chamber
of a performer composing music settings on concert
his programs through a stages in the Netherlands
continuous dialogue with living and abroad performing very
music history. Jan Michiels diverse repertoires: from early
worked indeed closely with polyphony to creations by
composers such as G. Kurtág, contemporary composers. As a
H. Holliger, H. Lachenmann, result, he is in regular demand
K. Goeyvaerts, K. Huber, R. with the most prominent
Groslot and K. Defoort. One of musicians and renowned
his main inspiration sources ensembles and orchestras such
is Luigi Nono, who stood at as Zefiro Torna, Il Gardellino,
the centre of his doctorate in Collegium Vocale Gent, Vlaams
the Arts ‘Teatro dell’Ascolto’ Radiokoor and Currende. In
(2011). Apart from the ‘ritual 2010 a long dream became
recitals’ mentioned above he reality with the foundation
realized several complete cycles of the ensemble BachPlus,
such as all Beethoven Sonatas, where together with Elisabeth
all works from the second Hermans he aims to create a
Viennese School, all Debussy,
 stage for the performance of with ensembles such as Il
the (cantata) repertoire of J.S. Gardellino, Scherzi Musicali,
Bach and his contemporaries. B’Rock and La Petite Bande. He
This project is currently being is a harpsichord teacher at the
implemented with special academies of Gentbrugge and
success at home and abroad, Overijse.
and has managed to charm —
die-hard music lovers with their [email protected]
original and unique approach www.beniaminopaganini.com
to the Bach oeuvre. He is also
founder/conductor of the
orchestra X-Travaganza, where Guy Penson –
harpsichord, pianoforte
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he has already appeared on

(inter) national stages. Renaissance – Classicism
— Label Eufoda, Ricercar, Accent,
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

+32 476 30 59 21 Pavane, Phaedra, Musique en

[email protected] Wallonie, Etcetera Records, Fuga
www.bachplus.be Libera

Guy Penson studied at the KASK

Beniamino Paganini – & Royal Conservatory school of
harpsichord arts HOGENT & Howest. He is a
Renaissance - Baroque laureate of several international
competitions including the
Beniamino Paganini is a Musica Antiqua Competition in
passionate traverso player, Bruges in 1980. Since finishing
harpsichordist and ensemble his studies, Guy Penson has
leader. He also plays organ gained an impressive reputation
and recorder. He studied in Belgium and abroad. He has
traverso, harpsichord, maestro appeared as a guest-artist at
al cembalo and musicology. the most important European
At the age of 16 he started at festivals (France, Italy, Spain,
both Royal Conservatories Germany, Hungary, Romania,
of Brussels, and later at the Russia, Scandinavia), as well as
conservatories of Leuven and in the United States, Canada,
The Hague. He studied traverso South America and Japan. As
under Barthold Kuijken, Frank a harpsichordist he performs
Theuns and Jan De Winne, regularly in solo recitals, and
Renaissance flute under Kate in collaboration with many
Clark and Patrick Beuckels, renowned ensembles, like Il
harpsichord under Frédérick Fondamento, Il Gardellino
Haas, Fabio Bonizzoni, Kris and RedHerring. In addition
Verhelst, and maestro al to the harpsichord, he has
cembalo under Patrick Ayrton. specialised in pianoforte and
He participated in master tangentenflügel. A hundred
classes with Nicolas Achten, CDs top a list of Guy Penson’s
Marten Root and Karl Kaiser. recorded work, which also
He is artistic director of Musica encompasses several radio and

Gloria and regularly performs TV-recordings. His recordings

of soloworks by J.S. Bach, W.F.
Bach, and W.A. Mozart have and organ works, mostly on
been welcomed with great assignment. A special aspect of
enthusiasm by the Belgian and his activities lies in the artistic
the international press. direction of the Bach Academy
— Alden Biesen. From September
[email protected] 2020 onwards, Luc Ponet is in
charge as Artistic Director of
Intra Muros – Festival for Early
Luc Ponet – organ Music - Castle Alden Biesen.
Middle Ages - 21st century —
Label Pavane, Naxos, Etcetera [email protected]
Records, Etoile Production, RMJ www.forummusicale.eu
Recordings, Vision-Air

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Luc Ponet is titular organist Bart Rodyns – organ,
of the basilica in Tongeren, harpsichord, harmonium
organist-in-residence of the Renaissance - 21st century
Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, Label Accent, Phaedra, Etcetera
and city organist of Leuven: Records, Ramée, Warner Classics,
three locations with important Enigma Records, Zed Classics,
historical (restored) or new Mixtuur
(reconstructed) organs. He
has performed as a soloist at Bart Rodyns studied organ/
festivals in Europe, Russia, harpsichord with Dieter Van
the United States, Mexico, Handenhoven. Later he studied
South America, Japan and the at the Music Conservatories of
Philippines. He forms a duo with Antwerp and Maastricht. His
renowned musicians such as principal teachers were Dorthy
Guido Segers, Raphael Leone, de Rooij, Hans Leenders, Joris
Jean-Pierre Van Hees, Alexander Verdin and Marcel Verheggen.
Ponet and in ensembles Bart won several prizes at
with a diverse and often very international competitions
original instrumentation such in Birmingham and Leiden,
as The G-Brass Project, with and in Belgium. He has made
Manu Mellaerts, José Chafer recordings for the Belgian,
Mompó and Slawek Cichor Dutch, French, Danish and
and The Moondog Company, Hungarian radio. The vocal
with Alexander Ponet, Maarten and instrumental ensemble
Vergauwen and Gabriele Euterpe Baroque Consort of
Basilico. Ponet is also the which Bart is the artistic leader
regular organist of De Munt. Luc and keyboard player, interprets
Ponet studied successively at authentic music on historical
the LUCA School of Arts campus instruments. He is the preferred
Lemmens in Leuven and at keyboard player of Wim Becu’s
the Hochschule für Musik und ensemble Oltremontano. At the
Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. end of 2015, he re-established
As a researcher he is linked to the historical ensemble The
the KU Leuven. In recent years Party (1860) in which he plays
he has composed various choral the pressure reed organ,
with soprano Hendrickje van
 Kerckhove, violinist Eliot and tenor Reinoud Van
Lawson and double bass player Mechelen and is also a core
Lode Leire. He works frequently member of Vox Luminis. Other
with Les Muffatti, Oltremontano, noteworthy collaborations
Utopia, BachPlus, InAlto, include working with cellists
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Pieter Wispelwey and Nadège
and other ensembles and Rochat, the Australian Chamber
soloists. At Fontys Academy Orchestra, Seattle Symphony
of Music and Performing Orchestra and Danish rock
Arts Tilburg, Bart Rodyns is group Efterklang.
appointed as Professor Organ, —
Harmonium & Harpsichord. As [email protected]
of June 2020 Bart Rodyns was www.anthonyromaniuk.com
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appointed titular organist of the

Antwerp St. Paul’s church. He
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

thus plays a truly historic organ, Mario Sarrechia –

possibly the most important harpsichord, organ,
ancient instrument in the pianoforte
Southern Low Countries. Baroque -Romanticism
— Label Accent, Apotheosis Records
[email protected]
www.bartrodyns.com Belgian harpsichordist Mario
Sarrechia studied at the Royal
Conservatoire of Antwerp
Anthony Romaniuk – piano, and the Conservatorium of
pianoforte, harpsichord Amsterdam. He became part of
Middle Ages - 21st century La Petite Bande, with which he
Label Alpha Classics, Melba performed as a continuo player
and soloist on tours throughout
Jazz-obsessed in his youth in Europe and Japan. As a soloist,
Australia, Anthony Romaniuk he has given recitals both at
studied classical piano in home as abroad with a reper-
New York (Manhattan School toire ranging from the 16th to
of Music), spent several years the 19th century on harp­sichord
specialising in early music and organ. He is also the artistic
(harpsichord and pianoforte leader and founding member of
in the Netherlands) and, Amsterdam Corelli Collective,
post-studies, has continued a baroque string ensemble he
his development across the founded in 2013. As a research-
realms of improvisation, Indy er, he has focused on keyboard
rock and ambient/electronic intabulations of French chan-
music. As a classical recitalist, sons and has given lectures on
his repertoire includes music this subject at the University of
from Byrd to Bach, Beethoven, Cambridge and the Vleeshuis
Chopin and Brahms (often on Museum Antwerp. Besides his
historical instruments), to activities as a professional mu-
Ligeti, Crumb and contemporary sician, he also teaches theory of
music. He works regularly with music at the Hogeschool Leiden.

violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja —

+31 6 18 47 95 85 at the LUCA School of Arts
[email protected] campus Lemmens in Leuven in
www.mariosarrechia.com 1996, he continued to perfect
himself with Liuwe Tamminga,
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini,
Herman Stinders – organ, and Martin Haselböck. As
harpsichord his alter ego Torus Biglane,
Renaissance - Baroque he explores the boundaries
Label Accent, Sony classical, Lauda of Early and Contemporary
Musica, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, music by fusing sounds from
Eufoda
the past and future, and
creating soundscapes for
Herman Stinders studied various contexts. Besides

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harpsichord with Jos van his activities as a performer
Immerseel at the Royal and composer, he teaches
Conservatoire of Antwerp. organ and chamber music at
Since then he has given the Kunstacademie Torhout
numerous concerts, including and at the Conservatorium
at Currende (Erik Van Nevel) Oostende, where he conveys
and Collegium Vocale Gent his enthusiasm for these
(Philippe Herreweghe). Herman instruments to a new generation
Stinders teaches harpsichord of musicians.
and chamber music historical —
instruments at the Royal +32 475 32 60 51
Conservatory in Brussels. In www.ilcostro.com
2009 Bart Coen requested his
presence as a core member of
the new ensemble Per Flauto. Jos van Immerseel –
Herman Stinders was involved harpsichord, organ,
in an impressive number of CDs. pianoforte
—
Renaissance - 20th century
[email protected] Label Zig-Zag Territoires, Sony,
Deutsche Grammophon, Channel
Classics, Alpha Classics, Carus,
David Van Bouwel – Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Erato,
harpsichord, organ Accent
Renaissance - 21st century
Jos van Immerseel is pianist,
Label Ricercar, BR Klassik, Deutsche
Grammophon, Channel Classics, conductor, researcher,
Alpha Classics collector, and professor. He
studied with Flor Peeters (organ
David Van Bouwel has a proven and composition), Eugène
career record as an Early Music Traey (piano), Jef Alpaerts
harpsichordist and organist, (chamber music), Lucie Frateur
having performed in numerous (voice), Kenneth Gilbert
concerts and recordings with (harpsichord) and Daniël
ensembles such as B’Rock, Il Sternefeld (conducting). He is
Fondamento, La Fenice and Vox also self-taught in organology,
Luminis. After graduating magna rhetoric, pianoforte and
cum laude under Luc Ponet clavichord. He has built up a
 unique collection of historic Delft. He has won several
keyboard instruments that prizes, including first prize
occasionally accompany him at the Musica Antiqua organ
at his concerts and are used in competition in Bruges (2009)
album recordings. In 1987 he as the first Belgian ever since
founded Anima Eterna Brugge, the foundation of the festival
a symphony orchestra that aims and the organ competition in
to use the instruments that 1964. As a soloist on organ and
were actually familiar to the harpsichord, he performs an
composers and that inspired extensive repertoire, from the
them. Van Immerseel taught at 16th to the 21st century. As a
the Conservatories of Antwerp, continuo player he has worked
Amsterdam and Paris and has with Anima Eterna Brugge,
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been invited as guest teacher by B’Rock, Concerto d’Amsterdam,

the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Currende, Hildebrandt Consort,
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

(Basel), Indiana University Oltremontano and Ricercar

(Bloomington) and Kunitachi Consort. He is one of the
College of Music (Tokyo). He founders of the new ensemble
has been a guest conductor Le Pavillon de Musique. He has
with orchestras such as the performed concerts in Great
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
the Akademie für Alte Musik the Netherlands, Austria, Poland
Berlin, the Wiener Akademie, and Sweden. He works at the
and the orchestra of the music academies of Ekeren and
Mozarteum. Wilrijk as an organ, harpsichord
— and accompaniment teacher. In
[email protected] 2013 he released his first solo
CD, recorded on the historic
organ of Sint-Pieterskerk in
Ben Van Nespen – organ Turnhout.
Renaissance - 21st century —
Label Carus, Brilliant Classics, De [email protected]
Haske, Accent, Eufoda, Etcetera,
Cypres Records
Joris Verdin – organ,
Ben Van Nespen is a Belgian
organist and harpsichordist.
harmonium
Renaissance - 21st century
He obtained a master’s degree Label Etcetera Records, Brilliant
and a specialisation diploma Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Ricercar,
in organ at LUCA School of Cypres Records, Le Bricoleur, Vision-
Arts Lemmens Campus in Air, AMG Records, René Gailly …
Leuven under Reitze Smits,
and a master’s degree in Joris Verdin is both organist and
harpsichord under Kris musicologist. This combination
Verhelst. He also followed matches his preference of
diverse courses with Jos van reviving forgotten music at
Immerseel, Joris Verdin, Ludger the same time as he creates
Lohmann, Hans-Ola Ericsson, contemporary compositions. He

Stef Tuinstra and Menno van has recorded over fifty CDs as a
soloist, spanning many musical Kris Verhelst has been
eras and styles. After various performing throughout Europe,
activities as accompanist, The United States of America
arranger and producer he now and Japan on both historical
focuses on the organ as well keyboard instruments and
as the harmonium and other modern copies (harpsichord,
keyboard instruments. He clavichord and organ). Her
teaches the organ at the Royal interpretations always reflect
Conservatoire of Antwerp and a thorough understanding
is professor at the KU Leuven, and deep respect for the
Belgium. Master classes, specific qualities of every
musical editions and articles individual instrument. Kris

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are an important part of his Verhelst studied organ with
activities. Amongst them, Chris Dubois at LUCA School
the first complete edition of Arts campus Lemmens in
of César Franck harmonium Leuven and harpsichord with
works and the first handbook Jos van Immerseel at the Royal
of harmonium technique. Conservatoire of Antwerp.
A compilation of his organ During the past decades she
works was recorded in 1998 has built up an international
and reissued in 2014. The reputation both as a soloist and
Spanish town Torre de Juan as a continuo player, performing
Abad appointed Joris Verdin and recording regularly with
as honorary organist of the well-known ensembles such as
historical organ built by the orchestras Il Gardellino,
Gaspar de la Redonda in 1763. Les Muffatti, Anima Eterna
Combining modified organ and Brugge, Collegium Vocale Gent,
synthesizer started some twenty La Petite Bande and chamber
years ago. With the progress music ensembles such as
of the more recent software, More Maiorum, Oltremontano,
this project got a real boost. Ricercar Consort. Kris Verhelst
Working over several years teaches basso continuo
resulted in a full program of and chamber music at the
own compositions. From 2019 Conservatory of Amsterdam.
Joris Verdin develops a new She is regularly invited to give
focus working with video to his masterclasses and to lead
own compositions. workshops.
— —
[email protected] [email protected]
www.jorisverdin.com

Jan Vermeulen – pianoforte

Kris Verhelst – Classicism - Romanticism
harpsichord, organ Label Etcetera Records, Brilliant
Renaissance - Baroque Classics, Accent, Harmonia Mundi
Label Etcetera Records, Eufoda,
Passacaille, Accent, Ramée,Klara, Jan Vermeulen is considered
Channel Classics, Mirare, Aliud, EMR one of today’s most prominent
pianoforte virtuosos. After
 his piano studies at the Royal Catalina Vicens is one of the
Conservatory in Brussels, most sought-after historical
his interest and urge for keyboard soloists of her
authenticity pushed him into generation. She is regularly
the direction of historical invited to hold lectures at
instruments. His pioneering historical performance practice
recording of the sonatas of and musicology conferences, as
Carl Maria von Weber at the well as to perform in the main
beginning of the nineties early music festivals in Europe
marked the start of a flourishingand the Americas. Having
career as a pianoforte artist. specialized in performing on
Now Jan Vermeulen harvests early keyboard instruments,
worldwide fame with the she has performed at various
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recording of Schubert’s collections of early instruments

complete piano works, an opus around the globe, including the
instrumentalists keyboard instruments

magnum which he completed in oldest playable harpsichord

2010. Following this project, he in the world and recording
was chosen Musician of the Year one of the best preserved
2010. As a soloist Jan Vermeulen gothic organs in Europe.
has performed all over Europe. Vicens is also recognized
His love for chamber music for her work with medieval
brought him together with keyboards, working alongside
musicians such as Wieland specialized instrument builders
Kuijken, Paul Dombrecht, in the development and
Christine Busch, France reconstruction of medieval and
Springuel, Roel Dieltiens, MarcelRenaissance organs. Vicens
Ponseele, Anne Cambier and performs and records regularly
the ensembles Explorations, as a member of ensembles
Il Gardellino a.o. Since 2014 of medieval, Renaissance,
he forms a four hand duo with Baroque and new music
Veerle Peeters. Besides his in Europe, USA and South
career as a performer, Jan America. She is the artistic
Vermeulen is also a dedicated director of the ensemble and
pedagogue. He teaches piano, social project Servir Antico,
pianoforte and chamber music with whom she explores
at the LUCA School of Arts the music and intellectual
campus Lemmens in Leuven. heritage of the humanistic
— period in connections with
[email protected] different contemporary social
www.janvermeulen.be contexts and issues. Passionate
www.duovermeulenpeeters.com
about education, Vicens
has developed an innovative
concept to combine historically
Catalina Vicens – informed performance research
harpsichord, organ, organetto, with the pedagogy of historical
percussion, soprano keyboards for the harpsichord
Middle Ages - 21st century class at the Royal Conservatory
Label Carpe Diem, Ramée, Cobra,

of Brussels, where she teaches

Etcetera Records, Eloquentia
since 2019.
— Julien Wolfs – harpsichord
[email protected] Baroque
www.catalinavicens.com Label Ricercar, Ligia Digital, Flora,
www.ensembleservirantico.com Mirare, Paraty
 
Belgian harpsichordist Julien
Boyan Vodenitcharov –  Wolfs started his harpsichord
piano, pianoforte studies with his mother Marie-
Classicism - 21st century Anne Dachy at the Académie de
Label Pavane, Flora, Mogno, Accent, Jodoigne. He then took lessons
Fuga Libera, Explicit Records, with Menno van Delft at the
Musique en Wallonie, Cypres Records, Conservatory of Amsterdam and
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Börner at the Conservatoire
Boyan Vodenitcharov entered National Supérieur de Musique
the Conservatory in Sofia in de Lyon. Julien Wolfs was the
1979, having already been a first Belgian harpsichordist to
prizewinner at the Senigallia win a prize at the prestigious
international competition. Musica Antiqua competition in
He went on to come third in Bruges. In 2007 he was the first
the Busoni Competition in laureate of the competition,
1981 and in the 1983 Queen with a Second Prize tie, the
Elisabeth Competition. He Audience Award and the
undertook further studies with Minkoff Publishing Prize. He
Leon Fleischer at the Peabody is also a founding member
Conservatory in Baltimore of the Les Timbres ensemble,
in 1986 and 1987. He gives with violinists Yoko Kawakubo
concerts throughout Europe, and Myriam Rignol. Julien
the United States, Canada, and Wolfs gives numerous recitals
Japan, performing at prestigious on Belgian and international
concert halls such as BOZAR, stages: Festival de Wallonie,
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Festival van Vlaanderen, Flagey,
the Palais de la Musique et des BOZAR, AMUZ and Festival du
Congrès de Strasbourg, the Clavecin en Fête.
Smetana Hall in Prague, and the
Suntory Hall in Tokyo. For 20  
years now, he has also taken an
interest in period instruments,
on which he has recorded a
number of CDs. In addition to
his activities as a performer,
Boyan Vodenitcharov also works
in the fields of composition and
improvisation. A number of his
works have been performed in
France, Germany, Belgium, and
Bulgaria. He currently teaches
the piano, the pianoforte, and
improvisation at the Royal
Conservatory in Brussels.
 1.3. Nicolas Achten – lute,
Instrumentalists harpsichord, historical harp
Renaissance - Baroque
Label Ricercar, Alpha, Musique en
Wallonie, Virgin, Challenge

Nicolas Achten studied

singing, lute, harpsichord
and ancient harp at the Royal
Conservatories of Brussels
and The Hague; he completed
his training in various
1.3.2. String masterclasses, notably at the
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Instruments Baroque Academy of Ambronay

and at the Centre de la Voix de
instrumentalists string instruments

Royaumont. Since 2004 he has

been invited by prestigious early
music ensembles, including
La Petite Bande, Ausonia, Les
Agrémens, Akadêmia, Les Talens
Lyriques, Il Fondamento, Les
Musiciens du Louvre, Le Poème
Harmonique, Akademie für
Alte Musik Berlin, and under
the direction of conductors
such as Jean Tubéry, Sigiswald
Kuijken, Marc Minkowski,
Christophe Rousset and René
Jacobs. Today he is one of
the few classical singers to
accompany himself, returning
to historical practice. Eager to
deepen this approach and to
put his research into practice,
he founded the ensemble
Scherzi Musicali. In the margins,
Nicolas also explores atypical
encounters, in duet with folk
accordionist Dider Laloy, or in
trio with jazz saxophonist Manu
Hermia or pop/rock singer Kris
Dane. Nicolas Achten teaches
singing, lute and applied early
music theory at the Royal
Conservatory of Brussels.
—
[email protected]
www.nicolasachten.be

Thomas Baeté –  Orchestra in 2000. With a great
viola da gamba, fiddle deal of passion and devotion,
Middle Ages - Baroque she has made the 8-foot
Label Ricercar, Musique en Wallonie, violone her own. Through a
Musica Ficta, Ramée more than 10-year partnership
with Sigiswald Kuijken and his
Thomas Baeté studied violin orchestra La Petite Bande as
at the Royal Conservatoire of well as with Jos van Immerseel’s
Antwerp and viola da gamba ensemble Anima Eterna Brugge,
with Piet Stryckers and at the Elise has explored a wide
Royal Conservatory in Brussels. range of repertoire extending
Thomas Baeté performs, from Baroque music to music
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of the classical and romantic
early music. His instruments eras. Active as an orchestral
are the viola da gamba and the musician and a soloist, her
medieval fiddles, which he also musical activities have taken
uses to accompany his singing. her in many directions, ranging
Based in Belgium, his musical from very early music together
activities brought him to over with ensembles such as Bach
20 European countries, as well Collegium Japan (Masaaki
as Morocco, Peru, Colombia, Suzuki) Il Gardellino (Marcel
the U.S.A., Canada, Georgia and Ponseele) and Zefiro Torna
Japan. Exploring his passion (Jurgen De bruyn) as well as
for 14th century polyphony, modern repertoire with Ictus.
he founded the ensemble Today, Elise plays in several
ClubMediéval, and his project international orchestras and
Transports Publics brings ensembles (BachPlus, B’Rock,
unknown 17th century music FolliArt).
to the light. Thomas teaches in —
Brussels and Leuven. [email protected]
— [email protected]
[email protected] www.folliart.be
www.thomasbaete.be

Ann Cnop – ( Baroque) violin

Elise Christiaens – Renaissance - Romanticism
double bass Label Accent, ExyLyre
Baroque - Romanticism
Label Etcetera Records, Alpha, Ann Cnop studied violin at
Harmonia Mundi, Passacaille the Stedelijk Conservatorium
Mechelen with Frans Vos and
Elise Christiaens studied chamber music with Florent
modern bass in Ghent, Brussels, Van de Vondel. During this
Essen (Germany) and the Banff period, she also takes part in
Centre for the Arts in Canada. several violin and chamber
At the same time, she took music competitions and has
master classes to broaden her the opportunity to perform as
understanding of performing soloist with several orchestras.
the historical bass, joining At the age of 17 she chooses the
the European Union Baroque
 LUCA School of Arts campus guitar festival 1994. He studied
Lemmens in Leuven to study classical guitar with Raphaella
violin with Elisa Kawaguti and Smits and lute with Philippe
singing with Dina Grossberger. Malfeyt at the LUCA School
After obtaining her master violin of Arts campus Lemmens in
degree in 2004, she enrolls at Leuven, where he also obtained
the Conservatory of Brussels a master’s degree in chamber
to specialize in Baroque violin music. Next to this he took
with Sigiswald and Sara Kuijken several master classes, with
and Luis Otavio Santos. She among others David Russell and
also participates in concerts Jordi Savall. Jurgen De bruyn is
and recordings with renowned the artistic director of the early
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ensembles such as La Petite music ensemble Zefiro Torna

Bande, Il Fondamento, Europa with whom he was invited to
Galante, Concert Royal perform in various international
instrumentalists string instruments

Köln, Les Agrémens and Il festivals. The ensemble was

Gardellino. Since 2013, Ann is awarded several prizes for its
concertmaster of the German original productions and CD
orchestra Concerto Foscari recordings. He has contributed
and of the Bach Academy Alden to many early music projects
Biesen, plays in duo with Luc and cd recordings, and worked
Devos and is the first violin with ensembles such as
of the string quartet Quatuor Huelgas Ensemble, Collegium
a4. In September 2019, she Vocale Gent, Vox Luminis and
obtained a PhD in Arts at the conductors as Paul Goodwin,
University of Ghent. She also Jean Tubéry or Rinaldo
started her own ensemble, Le Allessandrini. He has also taken
Pavillon de Musique. part in projects in other genres:
— jazz-world music with the Chris
[email protected] Joris Experience, the Sahava
www.anncnop.com Seewald ensemble, modern
dance with Les ballets C de la
B/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Koen
Jurgen De bruyn – lute, Augustijnen and theatre with
theorbo, (early) guitar NTGent/Johan Simons.
Middle Ages - 21st century —
Label Homerecords, Etcetera [email protected]
Records, Warner Classics www.zefirotorna.be

Jurgen De bruyn received a

government medal for guitar Annelies Decock –
at the music academy in (Baroque) violin
Bornem where he studied with Renaissance - Baroque
Dirk De Hertogh. He was first Label Challenge Records, Passacaille,
prize winner in the Nationale Accent, Alpha, Ramée
Muziekwedstrijd organised by
Het Gemeentekrediet (now Annelies Decock studied
Axion Classics) in 1989, and was modern violin at the Royal

made laureate of the Scottish Conservatory in Antwerp and

modern and baroque violin instruments. Results of this
at the University of British research are for example the
Columbia, then baroque violin recording of the complete
at the Royal Conservatory Bach Sonatas with harpsichord
in Brussels, where she was (Frank Agsteribbe). This
awarded the Ingeborg Köberle recording was praised for its
prize for most deserving outstanding performance and
student. She graduated in its groundbreaking approach. A
2007 and has since become a highlight on the romantic violin
much sought-after musician was the discovery and recording
in numerous top ensembles. of César Franck’s second violin
She currently works regularly sonata. In 2019, Guido de Neve

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with a nocte temporis, Ricercar founded Quatuor Romantique,
Consort, Apotheosis, BachPlus, a string quartet playing in
Transports Publics and Zefiro romantic style on romantic
Torna and plays the violin with instruments. All his research
the group Les Abbagliati. To resulted in the discovery of
be at home in all areas of early many manuscripts among
music, she has expanded her Lekeu, Litta, van Maldere,
instrument collection to include Franck andDe Boeck.Guido de
vielle, viola, viola d’amore and Neve has been a violin teacher
Renaissance violin. for more than 25 years, and
— head of the violin departement
www.anneliesdecock.weebly.com from the Royal Conservatoire of
Antwerp.
—
Guido de Neve –  [email protected]
(Baroque) violin
Baroque - Romanticism
Label Etcetera Records, Pavane, Le Floris De Rycker – lute,
Bricoleur, Klara Renaissance guitar, Baroque
guitar, theorbo, cittern,
Guido de Neve was accepted
as a pupil at the Royal
cetera, vihuela
Middle Ages - Baroque
Conservatory of Brussels at Label Ramée, Etcetera Records,
the age of 11. From that early Phaedra, Glossa Music
age he was performing regular
concerts in chamber music and Floris De Rycker holds a
as a soloist with orchestra. In postgraduate degree in
2004, Guido de Neve started early music and lute. He
to perform on historical has performed throughout
instruments. A new dimension Europe and in Russia, China
of research in music, sound, and the U.S. In addition to
phrasing and much more was collaborations with Mauro
born. Today Guido de Neve plays Pawlowski and Johannes
the Baroque violin, classical- Genard, he is regularly invited
romantic violin and the modern to participate in theatre
violin in order to explore the productions, CD recordings
sound worlds of old and modern and concerts by among
 others graindelavoix, Sollazzo music and art history at the
Ensemble, the former Capilla academies of Tielt and Knokke.
Flamenca, FroeFroe, the She also conducts diverse
Flemish Opera, het Paleis and master classes on the historical
NTGent. He is the driving force harp in the Netherlands and
behind the ensemble Ratas abroad, including the Royal
del viejo Mundo with which Conservatories of Brussels,
he performs on the largest Antwerp, Ghent, Berlin and
stages worldwide. He teaches Toulouse. In addition to
at the SLAC/Conservatorium, numerous CD recordings as
Academie Wilrijk and LUCA a continuo accompanist with
School of Arts Lemmens ensembles from home and
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Campus in Leuven. abroad such as Zefiro Torna,

— Hesperion XXI, Oltremontano,
[email protected] B’Rock, Les Agrémens and
instrumentalists string instruments

www.rdvm.org Cappella Mediterranea, she has

also released solo recordings
on period harp. Her first solo
Hannelore Devaere – harp CD The Fellowship was released
Renaissance - Baroque in June 2008.
Label Deutsche Grammophon,
—
Ricercar, Etcetera Records, [email protected]
Homerecords www.hanneloredevaere.net

Hannelore Devaere studied

historical harp at the Akademie Tom Devaere – violone,
für alte Musik Bremen under
Andrew Lawrence-King, focusing
double bass
Renaissance - 21th century
mainly on the Renaissance and Label Zig-Zag Territoires, Harmonia
Baroque repertoire of Spain Mundi, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon,
and Italy. In addition to her Pentatone
musical activities, Hannelore
is a musicologist with a Tom Devaere studied at the
specialisation in iconography KASK & Royal Conservatory
and organology (16th and 17th school of arts HOGENT &
century). In this capacity she Howest. In 1991 he was
was also associated with the laureate of the National
Musical Instrument Museum in Instrumentcompetition at
Brussels. In 2010 she founded Charleroi. As an orchestra
the ensemble Cuerdas in which musician he was member of
she focuses on combining the European Union Youth
Baroque and World Music. In Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra
2015, Les Belles Dames Sans of a United Europe and the
Merci (vocals, viola da gamba Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra,
and baroque harp) saw the which he played with famous
light of day: an ensemble in conductors such as Claudio
which she was able to deepen Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy,
her ever-growing interest in and Vaclav Neumann. From

female artists. Hannelore 1990 until 2008 he was a

Devaere is a teacher of harp, member of the Flanders
Symphony Orchestra where of his career to all the world’s
he was principal player from great concert centres (Paris,
1994 until 2003. Now he is a Berlin, London, New York,
regular player with SPECTRA Moscow, Tokyo). He has also
and a fixed member of I gained international recogni-
SOLISTI. Tom Devaere is also tion as a chamber musician
very active in the early music and founder of the celebrated
scene. From 1993 until 2007 Ensemble Explorations. Since
he played with La Petite Bande 2010 he has appeared in trio
and from 1996 until 2013 he formation with Andreas Staier
was a regular member of Anima (piano) and Daniel Sepec
Eterna Brugge. He has also (violin).

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played with the Bach Collegium —
Japan (2000), the Freiburger [email protected]
Barockorchester (2000-2013), www.roeldieltiens.be
Norsk Barokksolistene and Il
Gardellino. These orchestras
took him to all the European Liam Fennelly – fiddle, viol
countries, Japan, China, Russia, Middle Ages - Baroque
Label Eufoda, Ricercar, Naxos,
Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico,
Zig-Zag Territoires
the United States and South
Africa. In 2005 he founded
Liam Fennelly, after some
together with Frank Agsteribbe,
years as a professional singer
Tomas Bisschop and Hendrik
in a children’s choir and after
Storme the B’rock Orchestra.
completing a classical violin
Tom Devaere teaches double
and viola training, returned in a
bass at the Conservatoire Royal
roundabout way to early music.
de Bruxelles.
—
For some ten years he studied
www.tomdevaere.com the languages and literatures
www.b-rock.org of the Middle East and Central
Asia, earning degrees at several
universities. It was only towards
Roel Dieltiens –  the end of the eighties that
(Baroque) cello he decided to resume his
Baroque - Romanticism musical studies. He took classes
Label Etcetera Records, Harmonia with Thomas Binkley, Wendy
Mundi, Accent Gillespie, Marianne Muller,
and Wieland Kuijken. Ever
The cellist Roel Dieltiens stud- since Liam Fennelly has been
ied in Antwerp and Detmold. He participating in many concerts,
swiftly made a name for himself CD and radio recordings
on the international scene and in Belgium and abroad. He
is now regarded as an authority often played with specialised
on both modern and Baroque ensembles such as Capilla
cello. His strong personality, Flamenca, Currende, Ricercar
overwhelming musicality and Consort, Zefiro Torna, and Les
unconventional approach took Paladins.
him right from the beginning —
[email protected]
 François Fernandez — Sigiswald Kuijken at Koninklijk
Baroque violin, violino Conservatorium Brussel and
piccolo, viola, Baroque in 2018, he joined the Royal
violin, viola d’amore, viola da Conservatory in Namur.
—
gamba, violoncello da spalla [email protected]
Baroque www.fernandez-violons.com
Label Flora, Mirare, Ricercar, Ramée,
www.youtube.com/c/
Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, naïve
FernandezViolons
classique, Alpha, Accent, Denon,
Erato, Pan classics

François Fernandez studied the Sigiswald Kuijken – Baroque

Baroque violin with Sigiswald violin, viola da spalla
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Kuijken in The Hague. At the age Baroque - Classicism

Label Accent, Challenge Records,
of 17 he entered La Petite Bande
instrumentalists string instruments

Challenge Classics, Ricercar, Denon

and became its concertmaster.
At the same time, he worked
Sigiswald Kuijken studied violin
with the best Baroque
at the conservatories of Bruges
orchestras of the epoch, most
and Brussels. Studying on his
often as leader or soloist: The
own, he gained a thorough
Orchestra of the 18th century,
knowledge of specific 17th- and
La Chapelle Royale, Melante
18th-century performance
‘81 and Les Arts Florissants.
techniques and conventions
For the last 20 years, François
of interpretation on violin
Fernandez has devoted himself
and viola da gamba. Thus, in
to chamber music. Not only as
1969 he was the very first to
a violinist but also on violino
decide to re-introduce the old
piccolo, viola, viola d’amore,
Baroque violin position where
viola da gamba and violoncello
the instrument is not fixed and
da spalla. His solo recitals,
squeezed under the chin, but
most notably with the Sonatas
rests free on the shoulder. This
and Partitas of Bach, were
technique has been adopted by
heard by international public,
a great amount of musicians,
through internet live broadcast.
and caused a real revolution
Moreover, he appears as a
in the Baroque violin-playing
conductor. Under his baton,
world. In 1972, he founded the
Ricercar Consort won the prize
Baroque orchestra La Petite
from « La Nouvelle Académie
Bande. In 1986 he founded
du Disque » in France 1994,
the Kuijken String Quartet,
with music by Praetorius. His
which specialised in music of
discography encompasses
the Classical period. In 2004
more than a 100 recordings.
Sigiswald Kuijken reintroduced
François Fernandez is often
in practical performance the
asked as a guest conductor in
Violoncello da spalla: concerts
Nice, Bremen, Helsinki, Taipei
and recordings of Bach, Vivaldi,
and Chile. Since 1999, he is the
From 1971 to 1996, Sigiswald
Baroque Violin teacher at the
Kuijken taught Baroque violin at

Conservatoire de Paris, in 2009

the Koninklijk Conservatorium
he became the successor of
in The Hague and from 1993
to 2009 at the Koninklijk Boston, Utrecht, Leipzig, ). He
Conservatorium in Brussels. is a founding member, with his
In addition, he has for many brothers, of the orchestra La
years been in demand as a Petite Bande and the Kuijken
guest teacher at a number of String Quartet. He counts
institutions. In 2018, Sigiswald among his achievements an
was awarded a ‘Lifetime important discography devoted
Achievement Award’ by REMA. to chamber music and the
— viola da gamba repertoire. As a
[email protected] cellist, his interpretations of the
www.lapetitebande.be suites by Bach are famous.
—
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Wieland Kuijken –
viol (viola da gamba), cello
Baroque - Classicism Romina Lischka –
Label Passacaille, Eufoda,
viola da gamba
Accent, Ricercar, Outhere Renaissance - Baroque, Modern
Music, World Music
Wieland Kuijken graduated Label Ricercar, Flora, Musica Ficta,
from the Royal Conservatory of Fuga Libera, Coro, Christophorus,
Brussels in 1962 with a diplôme Paraty
supérieur in cello. In the course
of his studies, he taught himself Romina Lischka studied viola da
to play the viola da gamba, gamba with Paolo Pandolfo at
and became interested in the the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
performance practices of the and was awarded her soloist
seventeenth and eighteenth diploma with distinction in
centuries. His career in early 2006. She continued her studies
music began with L’ Ensemble with Philippe Pierlot at the
Alarius de Bruxelles (from 1959 Royal Conservatory in Brussels
to 1972). At the same time, he where she received her Master’s
expressed his great interest diploma with distinction in
in avant-garde music with the 2008. Since graduation, Romina
ensemble Musique Nouvelle. has worked as a freelance
Wieland Kuijken is well known gambist with ensembles such
as a teacher. He taught viola da as Collegium Vocale Gent, Gli
gamba from 1972 until 2003 at Angeli Genève and Il Gardellino.
the conservatories of Brussels Her concert activities have
and The Hague; throughout brought her to prestigious
these thirty years he trained concert halls and festivals
professional gambists from throughout Europe, Russia,
all over the world. He has also Asia, North and South America.
given many master classes at Combining all her musical inter-
Innsbruck, in the United States, ests, Romina formed the Hathor
and in Japan. He regularly Consort in 2012 to perform not
participates as a jury member only Renaissance and Baroque
for international competitions consort music, but also modern
(Bruges, Paris, Amsterdam, works and world music. Her
 debut CD Pièces de viole de Sieur well-known music festivals as
de Machy received the top 5 Laus Polyphoniae, Ambronay,
star rating by Diapason. The CD Barcelona, MA Festival, Woord­
En Suite - Marin Marais, Sainte fees Festival South Africa, Wim
Colombe & Robert de Visée was heads a flourishing lute class
awarded the Klara prize for best at the Bruges Conservatoire
classical CD of 2015. For the and teaches the lute at
season 2019-2020, Romina is Hogeschool Ghent. He is the
Portrayed Artist of BOZAR. She founder and conductor of the
has received the KLARA Award - Da Cantar Vocal Ensemble, was
Soloist of the year 2018. a guest conductor at CantoLX
— in Luxemburg and regularly
[email protected]
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gives courses in early music in

www.rominalischka.eu Belgium and abroad.
—
instrumentalists string instruments

[email protected]
Wim Maeseele – lute, theorbo
Middle Ages - Baroque, 21st
century Philippe Malfeyt – lute,
Label Etcetera Records, Eufoda,
Raumklang, Pavana Records, Klara,
Baroque guitar, ud, cittern
Lauda, Ramée
Renaissance - Baroque, World
Music
Label Ricercar, Aulos, Erato, Opus
Following his twin Master courses 111, Vanguard, Gailly Productions,
in guitar under Raphaella Smits Sony, Eufoda, Pavane, Etcetera
and lute under Philippe Malfeyt, Records, Home Records, Music &
Wim Maeseele studied under Words
Hopkinson Smith at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzer­ After studying guitar at the
land. Since he is always looking Royal Conservatory of Brussels,
for subtle and expressive Philippe Malfeyt began the study
inter­pretations, and because of lute on his own. In 1983 he
of his passion for vocal music, obtained the performing lute
the 16th and 17th centuries diploma from The Royal College
are his favourite stamping of Music in London. Since then
ground. His repertoire spans he has appeared regularly as
the period from the Middle a soloist, in duo (Hannelore
Ages to the Baroque, often Devaere, Patrick Beuckels,
com­bined with contemporary Michel Gillain, Didier François,
work. Wim is much in demand Katelijne Van Laethem) and in
for solo recitals, music-theatre numerous larger ensembles
performances and as a continuo (Il Fondamento, Rans, La Roza
player in ensembles large and Enflorese, Currende, Zefiro
small. He has performed with Torna). In 1989 he founded the
Capriccio Stravagante, Anima vocal-instrumental ensemble
Eterna Brugge, Oltremontano, ‘Romanesque’, which specialises
Akademie für Alte Musik in lesser known works from the
Berlin, Collegium Vocale Gent, Renaissance. Philippe Malfeyt

B’Rock, Huelgas Ensemble . is also interested in other

He has been a guest at such music genres: his aim is to lift
the lute out of its historical her ensemble Rossi Piceno. She
isolation. Thus in the lute trio has played with ensembles and
Luthomania, three musical orchestras such as Currende, Ex
cultures (Morocco, Belgium, Tempore and Academia Montis
China) are confronted with Regalis, and she teaches at the
each other in new compositions Turnhout music academy.
and improvisations, and the —
trio Sheng leans more towards [email protected]
the European jazz tradition.
Currently, Philippe Malfeyt
mainly tours with the EXILIO Lieven Misschaert – lute
programme – performed by the Baroque - 21st century
Label Mirare, Flora

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ensemble La Roza Enflorese and
the Alfama string quartet – for
which he composed new music Lute player Lieven Misschaert
and has arranged Sephardic studied classical guitar and
melodies. Malfeyt is presently chamber music at the Royal
writing new music for the same Conservatory in Brussels, but he
ensemble based on old Occitan is also one of the lute pioneers
troubadour texts. Philippe in Flanders. Together with
Malfeyt has contributed to about Paul Rans he regularly went to
one hundred CD recordings. Cologne in Germany to study the
— lute with Michael Schaeffer. He
+32 478 90 01 62 also studied with Anthony Bailes
[email protected] in Amsterdam and took part in
Musica Idea,management numerous early music courses
Inge Depraetere in various European countries.
+32 475 89 07 21 Until recently he taught lute and
www.musicidea.be ensemble playing at the Conser­
vatoire of Bruges. For quite a few
years he formed a duo with Paul
Marian Minnen – Rans and they recorded an LP
(Baroque) cello in 1979, entitled Die Nachtegael
Baroque - 21st century int Wilde. He also played for a
long time with lutenist Marianne
Marian Minnen first studied Buisseret who unfortunately
modern cello at the LUCA died far too young. Today he
School of Arts Lemmens concentrates a lot on contempo-
Campus in Leuven and at the rary lute music and does so with
Conservatory of Amsterdam. composer-lute player Gilbert
She obtained her diploma in Isbin in the Meander Ensemble.
historical performance practice
under Jaap ter Linden and Lucia
Swarts at the Conservatory in Philippe Pierlot
The Hague. In 2003 she was Baroque
a finalist in the international Label Mirare, Flora
competition Musica Antiqua
in Bruges for soloists, and she Philippe Pierlot studied the viola
won second prize in the same da gamba with Wieland Kuijken
competition for ensembles with in Brussels. He is the director
 of the Ricercar Consort since work Raphaella Smits has made
1995, and devotes most of his 21 recordings, many of them
work to the seventeenth-century being listed as indispensable to
repertoire. His repertoire also refined music lovers. Raphaella
includes contemporary works Smits is internationally praised
for viola da gamba solo and as an inspiring teacher for both
consort, a number of which have guitar and chamber music. In
been dedicated to him, and he addition to her chair at the LUCA
is one of the few performers to School of Arts campus Lemmens
play the baryton, a special kind in Leuven, she regularly gives
of viola da gamba with metal master-classes in West and East
sympathetic strings for which Europe, in North and South
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Haydn composed nearly 150 America and in Japan. Raphaella

works. He has edited, revived studied classical music at the
and directed a number of Royal Conservatories of Antwerp
instrumentalists string instruments

operas, including Monteverdi’s Il and Brussels. She also went

Ritorno d’Ulisse (given through­ to José Tomàs to perfect her
out the world beginning with playing at the Catedra Andrès
the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Segovia’’ in Spain. At that time
Brussels, Lincoln Center in New she was giving her first recitals
York, the Hebbel-Theater in and became a persuasive advo-
Berlin, the Melbourne Festival, cate of the eight-string guitar.
and Edinburgh Festival among In 1986 Raphaella Smits was the
other venues), Sémélé of Marin first woman to win the first prize
Marais, and also Bach’s St Mark of the XX Certamen Internacional
Passion. Next to his activities as de Guitarra Francisco Tarrega’’,
a director or instrumentalist, the famous international guitar
Philippe Pierlot is particularly competition in Benicasim,
fond of playing under Jordi Savall Spain. That victory confirmed
in the Hesperion XXI programs, the progress of a successful
and is an appreciated teacher career, which over the previous
(Brussels Conservatory and years had included prizes in the
masterclasses during Weeks Granada and Palma de Mallorca
of the Viola da Gamba in his contests.
hometown Spa). —
— [email protected]
[email protected] www.rsmits.com
Dan McDaniel (USA),management
[email protected]
Raphaella Smits –
(historical) guitar
Baroque - 21st century Ryo Terakado – 
Label Soundset Recordings, Accent, (Baroque) violin
Academix Records, Poketino Records, Renaissance - Classicism
AV Records, Eufoda Label Ricercar, Accent, BIS, Denon,
Passacaille
Raphaella Smits plays world­wide
in her unique way on eight- Ryo Terakado won the third

string guitars and historical prize in the All Japan Music

instruments. Besides stage- Competition in 1983. At the
time when graduating Toho he studied music at the
Gakuen, he was invited as a Conservatories of Antwerp
concertmaster of The Tokyo and Brussels. He plays viola
Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1985, da gamba, cello and medieval
he came to study the Baroque string instruments with many
violin at the Royal Conservatory of the leading ensembles in the
in The Hague under guidance of field of early music, such as The
Sigiswald Kuijken. In 1989, he Consort of Musicke, Huelgas
received a soloist diploma. Since Ensemble, Ricercar Consort,
1987, he has played with many Il Fondamento, Currende and
Baroque orchestras in Europe Capilla Flamenca. He performed
and Japan as a concertmaster: in many European countries

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La Petite Bande, Les Arts and made some 100 records
Florissants, La Chapelle Royale, and CDs. He also spends some
Collegium Vocale Gent, Presently time composing and arranging.
he is the concertmaster of Bach Stryckers was a staff member
Collegium Japan. He regularly of the Royal Conservatoire of
plays concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Antwerp for 42 years, where he
Mozart with above-mentioned taught musical analysis. He has
orchestras. Besides that he is published articles on the music
also invited frequently to Italy, history of Flanders, and cooper-
Poland, France and Australia as ated with Alamire, an editor of
a soloist. He conducts Operas Renaissance and Baroque music.
by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, As a researcher, he is currently
Gluck, Haydn and Mozart besides focusing on the life and works of
other orchestra works. Currently a 19th-century composer from
he teaches at the Hague Royal Antwerp, Pierre Jean Suremont
Conservatory, The Royal (1762-1831), and on Latin church
Conservatory in Brussels and music by composers of the
Toho Gakuen school of music. Southern Netherlands from the
He is regulary teaching in Yonsei mid-17th century.
University in Seoul and doing —
concert activities in Korea. [email protected]
—
[email protected]
Jan Van Outryve – lute
Renaissance - Baroque,
Piet Stryckers – fiddle, viol Traditional Music
Label Ricercar, Etcetera Records,
(viola da gamba), cello Codaex
Renaissance - Baroque,
Traditional music
Label Ricercar, Eufoda, Alpha, Jan Van Outryve studied at
Musique en Wallonie, Accent, the the Royal Conservatory
Harmonia Mundi, Sony Classica in Antwerp and the Royal
Conservatory of The Hague. As
Piet Stryckers has a degree in a lute player, Jan Van Outryve
musicology at the KU Leuven performs with ensembles
with a dissertation on 17th such as Capilla Flamenca, Il
century music at the court Fondamento, graindelavoix,
of Brussels. Simultaneously Hesperion XXI, Transports
 Publics. He has also been played with Romina Lischka,
closely involved in the activities Emma Kirkby, Lieselot De
of Zonzo Compagnie for years. Wilde, Deborah Cachet, In 2012,
His knowledge and skills of Sofie set up Imago Mundi, an
early music are linked to an ensemble which aims to foster
unstoppable creativity that encounters between different
often has its roots in music branches of the arts and kinds
from a more distant past or of music: eastern and western,
other musical traditions. He old and new. Divine Madness,
composed and performed the their first production, enjoyed
music of, among others, Ik Vlieg, national and international
Dido, Het meisje de jongen de acclaim. Over the past few
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rivier, Staring girl, Foi Opera years, Sofie has performed at

Buffa, and Liedjes met wortels festivals and concert venues
I and II ... He also composed both in Belgium and further
instrumentalists string instruments

for the film project Pour vos afield (Styriarte, Valletta

Beaux Yeux. In May 2018 his Baroque, Oude Muziek Festival
cantata Schaduwkind – Petite Utrecht, Festspiele Sanssouci
fille de l’ombre was performed at Potsdam, MA Festival, Festival
BOZAR, set to a text by Haryanti van Vlaanderen Mechelen,
Frateur. The composition was Händel Festival Halle, BOZAR,
part of the annual Cantania AMUZ, Concertgebouw Brugge,
project in which various AlbaNova).
Brussels schools rehearse on a —
cantata for a school year. [email protected]
www.sofievandeneynde.com

Sofie Vanden Eynde – guitar,

lute, theorbo Marc Vanscheeuwijck –
Renaissance - 21st century, World (Baroque) cello
Music Baroque - Classicism
Label Ramée, Coro, Phaedra, Cypres Label Alpha
Records, Aeolus, Fuga Libera, Paraty,
Ricercar, K617 Marc Vanscheeuwijck is a
Baroque cellist and professor
Sofie Vanden Eynde studied of musicology at the University
with Philippe Malfeyt at KASK of Oregon. Vanscheeuwijck
& Royal Conservatory school of teaches the undergraduate
arts HOGENT & Howest and with and graduate music history
Hopkinson Smith at the Schola surveys of the Baroque and
Cantorum Basiliensis. Sofie Classical periods, Performance
has gained an international Practice, Baroque Cello,
reputation as a specialist in Oratorio Workshop, and co-
historical plucked instruments. directs the Collegium Musicum
She regularly performs ensemble, which specializes in
with ensembles including Il early music. Vanscheeuwijck
Gardellino, Apotheosis, Apsara, studied cello and chamber
a nocte temporis, Hathor music at the Bruges and Ghent

Consort, As a duo, she has Conservatories and Baroque

cello with Wouter Möller; he and as a musicologist. She
holds degrees in art history, started playing the recorder
Romance languages, and at the age of twelve under the
pedagogy, and a doctorate in guidance of Joris Van Goethem.
musicology from the University She continued her studies
of Ghent (1995). His current with Bart Spanhove and Bart
research focuses on late 17th- Coen at the LUCA School of
century music in Bologna and Arts campus Lemmens in
on the history and repertoire Leuven, graduating with a
of bass violins. Vanscheeuwijck Bachelor of Music in 2007 and a
is a frequent performer and Master of Music with teacher’s
recording artist with European diploma in 2009. In 2010, she

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early music ensembles, graduated with a Master of
including the Cappella Medieval and Renaissance
Musicale di San Petronio, More Music at the Hochschule für
Maiorum, Collegium Marianum, Musik Trossingen. She studied
Odhecaton and regularly Renaissance viol with Lorenz
conducts the Jefferson Baroque Duftschmid in Trossingen and
Orchestra and the University of vielle at the Schola Cantorum
Oregon Oratorio Ensemble. His Basiliensis with Randall Cook.
work as a musicologist includes At the same time she completed
the writing of liner notes and her M.A. in Musicology with
program notes for a variety of honors. She has performed
CD companies and early music concerts all over Europe with
festivals, and the publication of ensembles such as Isabella,
critical facsimiles and editions. La fonte musica, laReverdie,
Among his publications are a Il Nostromo del Sogno, Aside
monograph on “The Cappella from her performing activities,
Musicale of San Petronio at the she is in demand as teacher for
Time of Giovanno Paolo Colonna recorder, vielle and medieval
(1674-1695)”; two edited music.
volumes on “Arcomelo 2013” —
and “I Bononcini da Modena +32 474 68 14 75, +41 76 786 11 10
all’Europa (1666-1747)”; and [email protected]
www.ensembleisabella.com
a book with 5 CDs (by Bruno
Cocset and Les Basses Réünies)
on “Cello Stories, The Cello in
the 17th and 18th Centuries”.
—
[email protected]

Marie Verstraete – viol, vielle

Middle Ages - Renaissance
Label Aeolus

Marie Verstraete is an expert

in medieval and Renaissance
music, both as a musician
 1.3. Wim Becu – s ackbut
Instrumentalists (historical trombones)
Middle Ages - Early Romanticism
Label Accent, Alliavox, Harmonia
Mundi, Flora, Sony classical, φ (PHI),
Bis, Ricercar, Passacaille, Cypres
Records, Etcetera Records, Klara

After his studies at the Royal

Conservatories of Antwerp
and The Hague, he embarked
on a fascinating journey of
discovery through the world
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1.3.3. Wind Instruments of early music. He soon was

collaborating with leading
instrumentalists wind instruments

ensembles in this field –

Huelgas Ensemble, Concerto
Palatino, Hespérion XXI, Les
Sacqueboutiers, L’Orchestre
des Champs-Elysées, Bach
Collegium Japan, Currende
– and made more than 300
CD recordings and many
successful concert tours. With
the founding of Oltremontano
Antwerpen, he formed his own
platform for the study and
performance of historical wind
instruments in Flanders. In 2015
he received the prestigious
Christopher Monk Award from
the Historic Brass Society for
his many virtuoso recordings
and concerts in a wide variety
of styles. In 2017 Becu and
his ensemble Oltremontano
became Antwerp Artist in
Residence (A.I.R.) until 2021
at the Royal Museum of Fine
Arts Antwerp. Since 2020 he
has been a guest lecturer at
the Royal Conservatory of The
Hague.
—
[email protected]
www.oltremontano.com

Luc Bergé – hand horn, Anna Besson - traverso
romantic horn Baroque
Baroque - Romanticism Label Brilliant Classics, CPO, Alpha
Label Ricercar, Fuga Libera, Phaedra, Classics
Eufodaq, Explicit
Winner of the Cziffra
Luc Bergé studied the horn Foundation’s annual auditions,
at the Royal Conservatories Anna Besson studied modern
in Antwerp and Brussels. He and early flutes at the
graduated with honors under Conservatoires Supérieurs de
André Van Driessche and went Musique de Paris and Geneva.
on to complete his studies As an active and versatile
under the famous horn player performer, Anna has spent

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Hermann Baumann. Luc Bergé several years developing her
was successively principal horn experience as a soloist and
at the Opéra de Wallonie, in the orchestral musician within
Belgian National Orchestra, the ensembles such as orchestre
Nieuw Belgisch Kamerorkest of Opéra de Paris, La Chambre
and I Fiamminghi. He has Philharmonique, Le Concert
equally applied himself to Spirituel, Insula Orchestra, Le
studying the natural and the Concert d’Astrée, Orfeo 55, La
romantic horn, which resulted Grande Ecurie et la Chambre
in several invitations from du Roi, Insula Orchestra and as
famous orchestras, including a founding member of quartet
Les Musiciens du Louvre under Nevermind. As a founding
the direction of Marc Minkovski, member of a nocte temporis,
les Arts Florissants under Anna searches for ways to use
William Christie, Luc Bergé has her music to transcend the
several solo CDs to his name: 18th- and 19th-century chamber
Chamber Music For Horn with music repertoire with flute.
the Arriaga Quartet, Mozart’s In 2020, her first solo album
Hornconcerto nr. 4 with Prima will be released for romantic
La Musica conducted by Dirk flute with fortepianist Olga
Vermeulen, the horn trios of Pashchenko featuring works
Brahms and Ligeti, These CDs by Beethoven, Kuhlau, Doppler
received critical acclaim from and Walckiers. In addition,
the international music press. passionate about traditional
Luc Bergé pursues his career as music and dance, the intense
a free-lance horn player. For 18 focus on the Irish flute leads
years, he was the horn soloist her to make research about
of the Orchestre des Champs Irish repertoire of the 18th-
Elysées and the hornist of the and 19th-century. Equally at
Prometheus Ensemble. home on the traverso, modern
— flute and romantic flute, Anna
[email protected] is regularly invited to give
[email protected] masterclasses in France and
abroad and was jury member of
the International Van Wassenaer
Chamber Music Competition
 in Utrecht in 2018. As of the small ensembles at KASK &
academic year 2020-2021, Anna Royal Conservatory school of
Besson teaches Traverso at arts HOGENT & Howest. In 2017,
the Koninklijk Conservatorium he obtained a Master in Arts at
Brussel, succeeding Frank Ghent School of Arts.
Theuns. —
— [email protected]
[email protected]

Bart Coen – r ecorder

Patrick Beuckels –  Middle Ages - Baroque
Label Sony, Harmonia Mundi
traverso, flute
Baroque - Classicism France, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi,
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Label Ricercar, Pierre Verany Accent, Ricercar, φ (PHI), Deutsche

Grammophon
instrumentalists wind instruments

Patrick Beuckels studied

recorder, flute and traverso at Bart Coen studied at the Royal
the LUCA School of Arts campus Conservatoire of his native town
Lemmens in Leuven and at Antwerp. Ever since he is very
the Royal Conservatories of active both as a soloist and in
Ghent and Brussels. He also renowned groups such as a.o.
studied singing at the Royal Huelgas Ensemble, Concerto
Conservatory in Brussels. He Vocale, Collegium Vocale Gent
became solo flute in LaChapelle and La Petite Bande. With
Royale, the Collegium Vocale those groups he recorded a
Gent and the Orchestre des large number of CDs and gave
Champs Elysées. Very quickly concerts worldwide. With his
he performed on all the big own ensemble Per Flauto, Bart
international stages, especially Coen recorded for Sony the
as a traverso player, and successful CDs Manoscritto di
collaborated with almost all Napoli 1725 and The London
the great names in the world Flute. For Accent he recorded
of historical music. Director with La Petite Bande the Bach
Johan Huys then invited him to Brandenburg Concertos, and
teach traverso and chamber their CD Telemann: Concertos
music at the KASK & Royal en Suites received a 10 from the
Conservatory school of arts Dutch music magazine Luister.
HOGENT & Howest. Director Anne Teresa (Rosas) invited
Jean Bailly and later director Bart Coen to be the musical
Frédéric de Roos invited him leader in the production En
to the Royal Conservatoire de Atendant, a performance
Bruxelles as professor traverso. combining medieval music
Nowadays, he still is solo flutist with contemporary dance,
of Herreweghe, freelance and with the same dance-
musician in various ensembles ensemble a new production
and orchestras, teacher of has been launched around the
flute and traverso at the urban Brandenburg Concertos by
conservatory in Bruges, choral Bach, in which he participates

conductor and professor of as recorder-player in the

Baroque orchestra B’Rock. Bart
Coen is recorder teacher at the Dimos de Beun studied
Royal Conservatory of Brussels recorder under Bart Coen at the
and at the LUCA School of Arts Royal Conservatory of Brussels
campus Lemmens. and harpsichord under Herman
— Stinders and Ewald Demeyere
[email protected] at the Royal Conservatories
www.perflauto.bewww.youtube.com/ of Brussels and Antwerp. He
watch?v=FRR2GCnflHM
studied organ under Ignace
Michiels and Joris Verdin in
Bruges and Antwerp. As a
Lambert Colson – recorder and continuo player
cornetti, recorder he has worked with ensembles
Middle Ages - 21st century

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such as La Petite Bande,
Label Passacaille, Etcetera Records,
Ricercar Consort, Huelgas
Ricercar, Ramée
Ensemble, Ex Tempore, Vlaams
Radiokoor, Collegium Vocale
Lambert Colson received his
Gent, B’Rock, Rosas, Currende,
musical training at the Royal
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,
Conservatory of Brussels
Il Gardellino and Zefiro Torna.
under Françoise Defours,
He has participated in TV
Pedro Memelsdorff, Bart
productions and CD recordings,
Coen, Marleen Leicher, Bruce
both solo and in ensemble,
Dickey and Gebhard David.
and with various international
He also studied in Bremen
labels. He teaches recorder,
(University of the Arts),
harpsichord and ensemble
Basel (Schola Cantorum
playing at the Academies of
Basiliensis), and Barcelona
Waregem, Blankenberge and the
(ESMUC). He has worked with
Bruges Conservatory. Together
ensembles and conductors
with Annelies Decock, he
such as Les Talens Lyriques,
founded the Baroque ensemble
Le Parlement de Musique,
Arcus Coloratus.
Scherzi Musicali, Les Paladins, —
L’Echelle and Oltremontano. [email protected]
As a musician and researcher,
he has contributed to journals
including La pensée de midi Patrick Denecker – recorder
(Editions Actes Sud), and is Renaissance - 21st century
involved with the Royaumont Label Ricercar, Musica Ficta, Klara,
Foundation, where he teaches Etcetera Records, Pavane
on Lutheran music in the Holy
Roman Empire and assists the Patrick Denecker studied
composer Zad Moultaka. recorder and early music
— performance at the Royal
[email protected] Conservatoire of Antwerp,
rounding out his competence
in Amsterdam, The Hague, and
Dimos de Beun – recorder Madrid. He earned prizes in
Renaissance - Baroque international competitions for
Label Aeolus, Harp&Co, Etcetera
both early and contemporary
Records
 music. End of the year 1990 musiciens du Louvre. A number
he founded the ensemble La of his recordings have received
Caccia, in 2011 the RedHerring international acclaim, most no-
ensemble. As recorder player tably his recordings of concerti
he applied himself to the a cinque (Vivaldi), concerti grossi
extensive repertoire of the (Corelli) and overtures for oboe
recorder in all its aspects, and bassoon (Fasch).
continuously on the lookout for —
unknown works from the 17th [email protected]
through the 19th century. He
belongs to the permanent core
of the Mezzaluna ensemble, Jan De Winne – traverso
Baroque - Classicism
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and was also a member of

Label Fuga Libera, Passacaille,
Capilla Flamenca. In addition
Accent, Ricercar
he is much in demand with
instrumentalists wind instruments

ensembles at home and abroad

such as Musica Temprana, Jan De Winne studied transverse
the Dunedin Consort, and flute and music theory at KASK
graindelavoix. & Royal Conservatory school of
— arts HOGENT & Howest as well
[email protected] as musicology at the university
www.patrickdenecker.be there. Subsequently he switched
to the traverso and took classes
with Barthold Kuijken at the
Alain De Rijckere –  Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
(Baroque) bassoon In 1987 he became laureate of
Baroque - Classicism the music competition Musica
Label Accent, Eufoda Antiqua in Bruges. Between
1990 and 2005 Jan De Winne
Alain De Rijckere studied was affiliated with several
bassoon and chamber music at international music ensembles:
the Academy of Dinant and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées,
Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Collegium Vocale Gent, Wiener
He won first prize in the Crédit Akademie, and so on. With
Communal national competi- Marcel Ponseele he founded
tion. In 1980 he was named first the ensemble Il Gardellino in
bassoon in the Belgian radio 1988, with which he has toured
and television symphony or- all over the world. Driven by his
chestra. In 1986 he began teach- passionate interest in period
ing chamber music at the Royal instruments, Jan De Winne
Conservatory of Mons and in himself builds replicas of 18th-
1997 at the Royal Conservatory and 19th-century traversos. He
of Brussels, where he also teaches at the conservatories of
teaches Baroque and Classical Paris and Brussels. Since 2004
bassoon. Alain De Rijckere he is the owner and the driving
regularly plays with ensem- force of the label Passacaille.
bles such as La Petite Bande, Il —
Fondamento, Collegium Vocale [email protected]

www.ilgardellino.be
Gent, Il Gardellino and Les
Toon Fret – flute, traverso Aline Hopchet obtained her
Baroque - 21st century master’s degree in recorder
Label Fuga Libera, Passacaille, in 1997 under Bart Spanhove
Ricercar, EMS, AMG Records Benelux, (LUCA School of Arts Lemmens
Explicit!, Warner Classics
Campus in Leuven). She then
studied recorder under Marion
Toon Fret obtained his Verbruggen and baroque
musical education in Brussels, oboe under Ku Ebbinge (Royal
Maastricht, Paris and Basel with Conservatory of The Hague).
Gaby Van Riet, Michel Lefebvre, She completed her studies
Barthold Kuijken, Ida Ribera and with Paul Dombrecht (Royal
Peter-Lukas Graf. He teaches Conservatory of Brussels)
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and obtained her master’s in
Conservatoire Royal de Musique Baroque oboe in 2009 under
de Liège, and flute at Leuven’s Marcel Ponseele (Conservatoire
Municipal Conservatory. Royal de Bruxelles). In 2004 she
As a flutist and a traverso founded her own ensemble:
player, he has made himself Cannamella. They interpret
heard in various ensembles the lesser known repertoire
and orchestras at home and from the 16th, 17th and 18th
abroad. He has performed on centuries. Her ensemble Les
the most prestigious stages Pantalons was born out of a
in Europe, America and Asia passion for the French flageolet,
and gives recitals with pianist a 19th-century recorder. Four
Veronika Iltchenko. His musicians play – with humour
discography amounts to more and virtuosity – 19th-century
than thirty chamber music ball and salon music on the
and recitalalbums, which were flageolet, cornet, violin and
lauded without exception in square piano. Fascinated by
international magazines such as the historical double reed
Diapason, Classica or BBC Music instruments, she specialised
Magazine. Toon Fret is a driving in playing the shawm, pommer,
force within Het Collectief and dulcian and crumhorn. Her
Oxalys, both chamber music method for shawm in two
ensembles of international parts was published in four
allure. languages by Cornetto Verlag
—
[email protected]
Stuttgart (English/German)
[email protected] and by Publisher KreaStiOn
www.oxalys.be (Dutch/French). The ensemble
www.hetcollectief.be Cannamella created a listen
and play-along CD for the
second part. Archive work, and
Aline Hopchet – recorder, contacts with the public and
oboe, dulcian, shawm organisers have always been a
Renaissance - Baroque grateful source of inspiration
Label Musica Ficta, Eufoda, for new musical adventures.
Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, Uitgeverij Thus Aline has already given
KreaStiOn numerous guided tours of the
Musical Instruments Museum
 in Brussels as well as lectures [email protected]
and educational texts for Jeugd www.pandora-2.be
& Muziek.
—
[email protected] Barthold Kuijken – traverso
www.alinehopchet.com Baroque - Romanticism
www.ensemble-cannamella.com Label Naxos, Accent, Atma Baroque,
www.ensemble-lespantalons.com Arcana, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi,
Sony Classical, Ricercar

Marcel Ketels – recorder, Barthold Kuijken is a Belgian

traverso flautist and recorder player,
Middle Ages - Baroque known for playing Baroque
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Label Passacaille, Harmonia Mundia, music on historical instruments

René Gailly, Aliud Records and particularly known for
instrumentalists wind instruments

pioneering this manner of

Marcel Ketels is a renowned performance with his brothers,
recorder and traverso player. cellist and viol player Wieland
He studied at the conserva- Kuijken and violinist Sigiswald
tories of Ghent and Brussels, Kuijken, and the harpsichordist
among others under Barthold Gustav Leonhardt. He studied
Kuijken, Oswald van Olmen and the modern flute at the Bruges
Johan Huys. In 1980 he became Conservatory and the Royal
laureate of the Musica Antiqua Conservatories of Brussels
competition in Bruges. He was and The Hague. For playing
associated with the KASK & early music he originally
Royal Conservatory, School turned to the recorder, later
of Arts HOGENT & Howest as predominantly to the Baroque
a lecturer in chamber music. transverse flute. Research
He is also a former director of on authentic instruments,
Kunsthumaniora Muziek en Dans frequent collaboration with
in Ghent. He regularly performs various flute and recorder
in Flanders and abroad as so- makers, and assiduous study
loist and in various specialised of sources of the 17th and
ensembles. He often plays with 18th centuries helped him to
harpsichordist Guy Penson and specialize in the performance
lutenist Bart Roose. He is cur- on original instruments. For
rently a member among others many years he played in the
of Pandora2. Recordings have Baroque orchestras Collegium
been awarded the Snepvangers Aureum and La Petite Bande.
Prize and 5 Diapasons. Recently, He taught Baroque flute at
in collaboration with the ensem- the Royal Conservatories of
ble Ultreya and lutenist Bart Brussels and The Hague, and
Roose, the recording Jacobus in 2007 he became the first
with eight centuries of pil- musician in Belgium to obtain
grimage songs for Santiago de the Doctorate in Arts at the VUB
Compostella and a CD with songs (Free University of Brussels).
from the Bruges Gruuthuse man- His dissertation, which was

uscript were released. later published as a book, was

—
called, The Notation is not the regularly makes radio and CD
Music - Reflections on more recordings. She is also active
than 40 years intensive practice with the ensemble Il nostromo
of Early Music. Kuijken is also a del Sogno and the recorder
sought-after conductor, and is trio Apsara. She has created
currently the artistic director compositions for Frederik
of the Indianapolis Baroque Neyrinck, Angélica Castello, Carl
Orchestra. Rütti, Anna Trauffer and Frank
— Nuyts. She is a guest lecturer
[email protected] at the Conservatoire Royal de
[email protected] Bruxelles. As a recorder teacher
www.indybaroque.org
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coordinates the early music
department ‘Early Music &
Katelijne Lanneau – recorder beyond’.
Middle Ages - 21st century —
Label Coviello Classics, Cavalli
[email protected]
[email protected]
Katelijne Lanneau studied www.b-five.eu
recorder at the Stedelijk www.earlymusicandbeyond.be
Conservatorium Mechelen www.ilnostromodelsogno.be
with Paul Van Loey. At the
Royal Conservatory of Brussels
she received the prestigious Beniamino Paganini –
Köberle Prize and obtained a traverso
Masters in Music under Bart Renaissance - Baroque
Coen. From 2001 to 2003 she
also studied under renowned Beniamino Paganini is a
recorder player and educator passionate traverso player,
Pedro Memelsdorff at the harpsichordist and ensemble
Escola Superior de Música leader. He also plays organ
de Catalunya in Barcelona. and recorder. He studied
From 2005 she followed the traverso, harpsichord, maestro
ManaMa programme ‘Soloist al cembalo and musicology.
in contemporary music’ at the At the age of 16 he started at
KASK & Royal Conservatory both Royal Conservatories
school of Arts HOGENT & of Brussels, and later at the
Howest, under Tomma Wessel. conservatories of Leuven and
Katelijne likes to be challenged The Hague. He studied traverso
by music from the Middle Ages, under Barthold Kuijken, Frank
polyphony from the Renaissance Theuns and Jan De Winne,
and new compositions from Renaissance flute under Kate
the 20th and 21st century. She Clark and Patrick Beuckels,
has performed with ensembles harpsichord under Frédérick
such as B’Rock, Collegium Vocale Haas, Fabio Bonizzoni, Kris
Gent and Canto Coronato. As Verhelst, and maestro al
a member of the recorder cembalo under Patrick Ayrton.
consort B-Five, she performs He participated in master
throughout Europe and classes with Nicolas Achten,
 Marten Root and Karl Kaiser. Gardellino in 1988, of which
He is artistic director of Musica he’s the artistic director. Marcel
Gloria and regularly performs Ponseele is internationally
with ensembles such as Il known as Baroque specialist,
Gardellino, Scherzi Musicali, and is often invited as a soloist.
B’Rock and La Petite Bande. He He performed and recorded
is a harpsichord teacher at the most of the oboe repertoire by
academies of Gentbrugge and Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart. He
Overijse. also focuses on chamber music.
— —
[email protected] [email protected]
www.beniaminopaganini.com [email protected]
www.ilgardellino.be
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Marcel Ponseele – oboe

instrumentalists wind instruments

Baroque - Classicism Toshiyuki Shibata – flutes

Label Ricercar, Accent, Harmonia Baroque - 21st century
Mundi, Erato, Passacaille, Musica Label Etcetera Records, Editions
Ficta Hortus

The Belgian oboist and Toshiyuki Shibata plays flute,

conductor Marcel Ponseele, piccolo, alto flute, Baroque flute
studied modern oboe and and classical/romantic keyed
chamber music at the flute. His repertoire ranges
conservatories of Bruges, from Baroque to contemporary
Brussels and Ghent. After his music. He studied linguistics
graduation, he began to study in Osaka University and later
the Baroque oboe. In 1981 moved to New York City to
he won a prize at the Musica focus on music education.
Antiqua competition in Bruges. He appeared as a concert
At the same time he played flutist at Carnegie hall, Lincoln
regularly with several Baroque Center, Symphony Space and
orchestras, such as La Petite Bargemusic. Having studied
Bande, The Amsterdam Baroque at Royal Conservatories in
Orchestra and La Chapelle Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels,
Royale. He is a founding he has become one of a few
member of the Orchestra des professional flutists who plays
Champs-Elysées. He regularly on both the Boehm system
played with Ton Koopman, and historical flutes. Finding
Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald more interest in early music,
Kuijken, Marc Minkowski, John he proceeded to the advanced
Eliot Gardiner, and Masaaki master degree program on
Suzuki. In addition, he directs traverso and classical 8key-flute
l’Harmonie des Champs-Elysées, at KASK & Royal Conservatory
another Baroque-performing school of arts HOGENT &
group, with which he has Howest. He recently played in
given numerous concerts and Jeune Orchestre de L’Abbaye
made recordings. Together aux Dames, Vox Luminis, Il

with Jan De Winne he founded Fondamento, Hildebrandt

the Baroque ensemble Il Consort and other Baroque
ensembles in Belgium. As an of view regarding an ‘anti-dull’
active chamber music musician, authenticity, as much for the
he collaborates with Bart making of the flute as for the
Naessens, Frank Agsteribbe, method of playing it. Since
Anthony Romaniuk, Consone 1989 he has taught Baroque
Quartet, Delfico String Quartet. transverse flute at the Royal
He is a research fellow at the Conservatory in Brussels. He
Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp taught courses on performance
and a research assistant at the at Esmuc Barcelona, the
Study Center of Flemish Music. Royal Conservatory of The
He served as the international Hague, ‘Internationale Händel-
liaison of the National Flute Akademie’ Karlsruhe, and the

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Association of USA (2015-17). International Flutesymposium
He is a recipient of scholarship Atlanta. Currently he is a flautist
from Flemish government (2014- in the orchestras Anima Eterna
15), further, he was granted Brugge and La Petite Bande.
fellowship/scholarship from —
University of Sydney in Australia www.franktheuns.com
in 2013.
—
www.toshiyuki-shibata.com Stefanie Troffaes – 
[email protected] Baroque flute
Renaissance - Early Romanticism
Label Alpha, Musica Ficta, naïve,
Frank Theuns – traverso Archiv Productions, Aparté,
Baroque Challenge, Opus Arte, Palazzetto Bru
Label Accent, Zig-Zag Territoires, Zane
Eufoda, Alpha Classics
Stefanie Troffaes studied the
Frank Theuns completed his recorder with Tomma Wessel
musical studies at the Royal and Bart Coen, and Baroque
Conservatory in Brussels. flute with Patrick Beuckels,
He specialised in playing the Marc Hantaï, Frank Theuns and
Baroque transverse flute. With Barthold Kuijken at the Royal
his ensemble Les Buffardins he Conservatory of Brussels. She
has recorded a representative was selected to participate
selection of the flute repertoire with the Académie Baroque
(Handel, Sammartini, européenne d’Ambronay to
Kirnberger, Quantz, Hotteterre, work under the direction of
Montéclair, Boismortier, Christophe Rousset (2001)
Blavet) for Accent. In 2006, and Paul McCreesh (2002). In
he recorded the Concerto for 2002, she became a finalist
Flute and Harp by W. A. Mozart on Baroque flute at the
with Anima Eterna Brugge. Musica Antiqua international
Over the past decade he has soloist competition in Bruges.
collaborated closely with the She continues to pursue a
instrument maker Andreas historical approach in current
Glatt as a ‘taster’ of flutes, with performance practice, and
whom he shares the same point her musical interests cover
 the Renaissance to the with the ensembles Psallentes,
early Romantic periods. She Octopus, El Grillo and Le
performed with harpsichord Vecchie Musiche. In 2004,
player Julien Wolfs, in concert she co-founded the recorder
halls such as BOZAR, AMUZ trio Aquil’AlterA. She teaches
and Concertgebouw Brugge. the recorder in Oudenaarde,
She performs with early music Laken and Kalken. She is also a
ensembles such as Insula member of Mensurabilis.
Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, —
Gli Angeli Genève, Les Muffati, [email protected]
Les Passions de l’Ame and www.reinvanbree.be
www.aquilaltera.com
Dunedin Consort. Over the past
100

years, Stefanie Troffaes has

been invited with renowned
chamber music ensembles at Jan Van den Borre –
instrumentalists wind instruments

the BBC Prom’s, Festival de traverso, flute

Saintes, Festival Oude Muziek Renaissance – Baroque
Utrecht, Midsommerbarok
Copenhagen Belgian Baroque flautist Jan
— Van den Borre has played in
www.stefanietroffaes.com some of the most prestigious
concert halls in Europe, the
US and Japan. He is active in
Rein Van Bree – recorder ensembles such as Collegium
Baroque - 21st century Vocale Gent, Il Gardellino,
Label Le Bricoleur Vox Luminis, Anima Eterna
Brugge, BachPlus, Apotheosis,
Rein Van Bree studied recorder, Les Muffatti, Notturna, Les
chamber music and pedagogy Agrémens, Millenium Orchestra,
at LUCA School of Arts campus Gli Angeli Genève, Le Concert
Lemmens in Leuven with Bart Lorrain, Le Parlement de
Coen and Bart Spanhove, and Musique. He founded The 1750
singing with Dina Grossberger Project together with Benoit
and Dirk Snellings. She took Laurent. He was also artistic
part in masterclasses for coordinator at Collegium Vocale
recorder with Geert Van Gent until 2020. In October 2020
Gele, Kees Boeke, Barthold he was named artistic director
Kuijken, Fumiharu Yoshimine, at Il Gardellino. He studied
Maurice Van Lieshout, Pedro (baroque) flute at the Royal
Memelsdorff, and Marion Conservatories of Antwerp,
Verbruggen. As a singer she Ghent and Brussels where he
participated in several projects obtained a Master’s degree in
with Kurt Bikkembergs, Marnix Baroque flute in the class of
De Cat, Barthold Kuijken Barthold Kuijken. Courses at
and Philippe Herreweghe. the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
She performed in operas by and under Sigiswald Kuijken,
Muziektheater Transparant and Roy Goodman and Jordi Savall
the Vlaamse Opera (under the broadened his experience in

direction of Ottavio Dantone), the field of historical flutes and

interpretation of music from himself a recorder player first of
the 18th and 19th centuries. all, but also frequently performs
He can be heard on recordings on harpsichord, organetto and
by Collegium Vocale Gent, bass guitar.
Il Gardellino, Vox Luminis, —
Anima Eterna Brugge, Huelgas +32 3 236 66 32
Ensemble, Il Fondamento, Ex [email protected]
www.geertvangele.com
Tempore, Le Concert d’Anvers,
Les Agrémens, BachPlus,
Apotheosis, Notturna and The
1750 Project. Peter Van Heyghen –
— recorder

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[email protected] Renaissance - Classicism
[email protected] Label Passacaille, Ramée, Eufoda,
Accent, Klara, Opus 111

Geert Van Gele – recorder Peter Van Heyghen was trained

Renaissance - Baroque,21st century as a recorder player and a sing-
Label Kattenberg Recordings er at KASK & Royal Conservatory
school of arts HOGENT &
After studying at several Howest. Through the years
conservatories in Flanders, he developed into an interna-
Geert Van Gele was the co- tionally acknowledged spe-
founder of the Flanders’ cialist in the field of Historical
Recorder Quartet. For ten years Performance Practice of music
he performed and recorded between roughly 1500 and 1800.
with the Quartet in Europe and He performs worldwide as a so-
the Americas. Since then he loist, with the recorder consort
has pursued a solo career. He Mezzaluna, with the chamber
is a founding member of Sospiri music ensemble More Maiorum,
Ardenti, an ensemble focusing as an occasional singer with
on staged chamber music the Dutch vocal Renaissance
performances from the Baroque ensemble Cappella Pratensis,
era, as well as Quadrivium, as the resident conductor of
ensemble for Medieval music. the Brussels Baroque orchestra
He is regularly invited to give Il Gardellino and as a guest
masterclasses. As a soloist conductor of ensembles and
he is appreciated in Bach and orchestras throughout Europe,
early Italian Baroque music as South America, and the United
well as in contemporary music States. Peter Van Heyghen holds
– all of which repertoires he teaching positions at Royal
has recorded on CD. In 2009 Conservatories in Brussels
he founded the record label, and The Hague, and at the
Kattenberg Recordings. In 2019 Conservatory of Amsterdam.
he published his book Thoughts Furthermore, he is regularly in-
on the Recorder in which he vited to give masterclasses, lec-
describes his very personal tures and conduct workshops
approach towards the recorder throughout the world. Peter Van
and its music. He considers Heyghen is also increasingly
 committed to fostering and pro- Simen Van Mechelen studied
moting young professional mu- romance philology before
sicians and ensembles. In this going on to study at the Royal
context, he is resident coach atConservatoire of Antwerp. After
the International Young Artist’sa period as a counter-tenor
Presentation (IYAP), organized with such groups as Currende
annually in Antwerp. and the Collegium Vocale Gent,
— he became interested in the
[email protected] historical trombone, eventually
www.ilgardellino.be studying with Wim Becu. He
covers repertoire from the alta
capella, Renaissance polyphony
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Ruth Van Killegem – recorder (with Currende, Weser-

Renaissance - Classicism Renaissance Bremen, La Fenice,
Label Ramée, Accentus Music,
Oltremontano and Huelgas
instrumentalists wind instruments

Ricercar, Passacaille, Harmonia

Ensemble), the typical repertoire
Mundi, Musica Ficta
for cornetts and trombones up
to the early Romantic period.
After studying recorder, cham-
He is a member of Les Cornets
ber music and harpsichord at
Noirs, Concerto Palatino
LUCA School of Arts Lemmens
(since 1989) and played with
Campus in Leuven, Ruth Van
L’Arpeggiata, Musica Temprana,
Killegem immersed herself in
Weser-Renaissance Bremen,
the Baroque repertoire and
Huelgas Ensemble and Capriccio
Contemporary music. She dis-
Stravagante Renaissance
tinguished herself at interna-
Orchestra. He plays regularly
tional competitions: in Tilburg
with orchestras such as De
she was awarded the Dutch LINK
Nederlandse Bachvereniging,
audience award and at the pres-
Pygmalion, Bach Collegium
tigious Musica Antiqua com-
Japan, B’Rock and Collegium
petition in Bruges she became
Vocale Gent. He founded Scorpio
a laureate and received the
Collectief in 2009. Simen Van
audience award and the Radio 3
Mechelen has worked on over
(now Klara) Prize. She performs
100 recordings and is also
at home and abroad as a soloist
responsible for the undertitling
and in chamber music with en-
at the Flanders Opera since
sembles such as RedHerring, Il
1989.
Gardellino and Tiptoe Company, —
and has collaborated on various [email protected]
CD recordings. www.concertopalatino.com
—
[email protected]

Ann Vanlancker – oboe

Baroque
Simen Van Mechelen – Label Accent, Ricercard, Harmonia
sackbut (trombone) Mundi, Etcetera Records
Renaissance - Classicism
Label Ramée, Accentus Music, Ann Vanlancker studied oboe

Ricercar, Passacaille, Harmonia at the Royal Conservatory in

Mundi, Musica Ficta Brussels. In 1993 she was a
laureate of the competition Nele Vertommen -
Musica Antiqua in Bruges. She (Baroque) oboe, recorder
has played with La Petite Bande, Baroque
La Chapelle Royale, Octophoros, Label Alpha
the Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra, and Il Gardellino. Nele Vertommen started with
oboe lessons under Korneel
Alsteens. At the age of 14 she
Marie Verstraete -recorder started Baroque oboe, and at
Middle Ages - Renaissance the age of 15 she studied at the
Label Aeolus Royal Conservatory of Brussels
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Marie Verstraete is an expert Hague she obtained a bachelor’s
in Medieval and Renaissance degree in Baroque oboe and
music, both as a musician and recorder, and in Brussels her
as a musicologist. She started master’s degree summa cum
playing the recorder at the age laude. She has performed with
of twelve under the guidance ensembles such as Il Gardellino,
of Joris Van Goethem. She a nocte temporis, Collegium
continued her studies with Vocale Gent, Musica Gloria,
Bart Spanhove and Bart Coen La Chapelle Harmonique and
at the LUCA School of Arts La Petite Bande. At the end of
campus Lemmens in Leuven, August 2017 she was artist-
graduating in 2009. In 2010, in-residence at the Austrian
she graduated with a Master Trigonale festival. Together
of Medieval and Renaissance with Beniamino Paganini she
Music at the Hochschule für is working on expanding the
Musik Trossingen. She studied ensemble Musica Gloria. She
Renaissance viol with Lorenz also builds Baroque oboes
Duftschmid in Trossingen and herself.
vielle at the Schola Cantorum —
Basiliensis with Randall Cook. [email protected]
At the same time she completed
her Masters in Musicology. She
has performed concerts with
ensembles such as Isabella, La
Fonte Musica, LaReverdie, Il
Nostromo del Sogno, Mon cuer
mon ame, Les Riches Heures,
Aquil’AlterA, Officium, Armonico
Tributo Austria, and L’estro
armonico. She also teaches
recorder, vielle and medieval
music.
—
+32 474 68 14 75
+41 76 786 11 10
[email protected]
www.ensembleisabella.com
Oltremontano Antwerpen © Miel Pieters Johan Deblieck
Hannelore Devaere Claire Chevalier © Alex Vanhee
Part 2

Organisations
and
Structures
B-Five Recorder Consort © Lieven Dirckx
Hildebrandt Consort – Wouter Dekoninck
Psallentes © Wouter Van Vaerenbergh
 Dirk De Hertogh Nele Vertommen © Johan Jacobs
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Currende Els Biesemans

ensembles specialised in contemporary music

David Van Bouwel

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 Ensemble Isabella
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Huelgas Ensemble © Guy Verstraete

2.1. AMUZ
Concert Organisations (Antwerp)
AMUZ (Flanders Festival
Antwerp) aims to present and
cultivate cultural, educational
and academically substantiated
activities in the field of music
and related art forms, both
at AMUZ and on location. To
fulfil this aim, AMUZ organises
concerts, courses, lectures
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2.1.1. Arts Centres and The focus is on the principles
Concert Halls of historically informed
performance practice. In that
context, AMUZ works closely
with other organisations that
have demonstrated their
excellence in the study of
historical performance practice,
in particular the Alamire
Foundation (University of
Leuven). AMUZ itself also aims
to be the centre of excellence
for the performance of
polyphonic music according to
historical performance practice,
for example by organising a
high-quality annual music
festival with international allure
that focuses on polyphony, Laus
Polyphoniae.
> Capacity: 391
—
Bart Demuyt, 
general and artistic director
Kammenstraat 81
B-2000 Antwerpen
+32 3 202 46 69
[email protected]
www.amuz.be
 De Bijloke Muziekcentrum harpsichord recitals at the
(Ghent) Conservatory and in the
Muziekcentrum De Bijloke in churches of downtown Brussels.
Ghent organises concerts in the > Capacity: Henry Le Boeuf hall
oldest concert hall in the world. (2100), chamber music hall (480),
studio (120)
The concerts range from early
—
music, symphonic and chamber Paul Dujardin, chief executive officer,
music, to piano and vocal, to artistic director
jazz and contemporary. The Jérôme Giersé, director of music
green Bijloke site is a creative Ravensteinstraat 23
hotspot that inspires festivals, B-1000 Brussel
lectures, exhibitions and +32 2 507 84 30
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installations. The magisterial [email protected]

yet intimate Concert Hall, www.bozar.be
the quirky Café, the historic
concert organisations arts centres and concert halls

Kraakhuis or the Anatomical

Theatre: these state-of-the- Concertgebouw (Bruges)
art auditoriums make an The Concertgebouw is an
experience in De Bijloke always international centre for music
classy, but never classical. and the performing arts,
> Capacity: concert hall (830), programmed in a thematic
Kraakhuis (238), Anatomic Theatre approach linking the arts to
(80), Cabinet (80) societal issues. Bruges has a
— strong backbone in the field of
Geert Riem, g eneral presenting early music, which
and artistic director
is reflected in a collaboration
Bijlokekaai 7
B-9000 Gent
with the MA Festival since 2002
+32 9 323 61 11 and a rich season of concerts
[email protected] and thematic festivals with
www.bijloke.be early music, such as Bach
Academie Brugge, developed
in collaboration with Philippe
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Herreweghe, and the biannual
(Brussels) festival Gold, dedicated to the
BOZAR organises concerts, polyphony of Bruges and its
international exhibitions, wider region.
> Capacity: concert hall (1289),
cinema, theatre, dance,
chamber music hall (320)
literature, architecture and —
educational initiatives in the Katrien Van Eeckhoutte, 
splendid Centre for Fine Arts general director
designed by the Belgian Art Jeroen Vanacker, artistic director
Nouveau architect Victor Horta. Albert Edelman, artistic
BOZAR proposes classical coordinator early music
music, world music and jazz ‘t Zand 34
concerts, some 220 concerts B-8000 Brugge
+32 50 47 69 99
annually. Approximately
[email protected]
fifty of these are devoted to www.concertgebouw.be

early music. Furthermore,

BOZAR organises organ and
Flagey deSingel
(Brussels) (Antwerp)
Located on the edge of the deSingel houses a cohabitation
Flagey square and the Ixelles of four art disciplines on
ponds, the beautiful Art Deco the same site, of artists in
building that once was the residence, a conservatory
headquarters of national and an architecture institute.
radio and television has now deSingel is one of Belgium’s
become a meeting place for most important concert
artistic disciplines. Flagey stages, with a programme
organises jazz, world, classical that encompasses everything
and contemporary concerts, as from early music, classical

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well as film and video events. symphonies, jazz and pop, to
A prominent place is given to contemporary opera. Early
younger (Belgian) talent. It music receives its place
received structural support alongside other genres, and
from the different Belgian the halls of various sizes can
communities. The acoustic accommodate ensembles of all
qualities of the concert studios sizes, from solos and duets to
are widely recognised. the large forces required for, for
> Capacity: Studio 4 (862), Studio 1 instance, a baroque oratorio.
(156) > Capacity: Blue hall (968), Red hall
— (801), Small hall (92)
Gilles Ledure, general director —
Heilig-Kruisplein Hendrik Storme, general director
B-1050 Brussel Desguinlei 25
+32 2 641 10 10 B-2018 Antwerpen
[email protected] +32 3 244 19 20
www.flagey.be [email protected]
www.desingel.be
 2.1. AlbaNova
Concert Organisations (Bilzen)
AlbaNova is a festival for past
and present music for all ages.
Within the historical setting
of Landcommanderij Alden
Biesen, the festival presents
concerts, performances,
workshops, musical walks and
installations. AlbaNova bridges
the gap between the past and
the present: contemporary
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2.1.2. Festivals creations with the past as a

source of inspiration stand
alongside historical music.
concert organisations festivals

The central festival guest

is involved in artistic and
participatory programmes each
year. AlbaNova presents results
from labs and is a breeding
ground for alternative forms of
audience participation.
—
Esther Ursem,
general director of Musica
Toekomstlaan 5B
B-3910 Pelt
+32 1 161 05 10
[email protected]
www.musica.be

Cydonia Barocca
(Ghent)
Each Pentecote weekend,
Cydonia Barocca organises a
Baroque festival with music by
Bach, Telemann and Graupner.
The festival invites specialists
in one specific instrument from
home and abroad, and includes
concerts with cantatas,
orchestral works and chamber
music, an open mic event,
lectures, an exhibition, city
walks and a children’s studio.
—
Florian Heyerick, director

www.cydonia-barocca.org
[email protected]
Festival Musical de Namur Laus Polyphoniae
The Festival Musical de Namur (Antwerp)
was created in 1964 and is Laus Polyphoniae is the re­
held each year in early July. Its nowned summer festival of AMUZ
identity leans on its artistic (Flanders Festival Antwerp),
closeness to the Centre d’Art which since 1993 has been luring
Vocal et de Musique Ancienne aficionados of early music to
(Cav&ma), the Chœur de Antwerp at the end of August. It
Chambre de Namur and the has a track record of combining
orchestras Les Agrémens and musicological research with
Millenium. Its program is mostly creations of new and innovative
comprised of choral, vocal and productions. Polyphony remains

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early music, alongside various at the core of this festival and
repertories such as jazz, tango, that makes it unique in the
contemporary and world music. world. Parallel with the festival,
The main venue of the festival is Laus Polyphoniae organises
the Church of St Loup (Namur). work­shops, master­classes and
— the International Young Artist’s
CAV&MA Presentation, a platform that
Jean-Marie Marchal, d irector supports young ensembles
[email protected] on their way to a professional
Avenue Jean 1er, 2 career.
B-5000 Namur —
+32 81 711 502, +32 495 20 90 71 AMUZ
www.cavema.be Bart Demuyt, 
www.festivaldenamur.be general and artistic director
Kammenstraat 81
B-2000 Antwerpen
inPRIMETIME +32 3 202 46 69
[email protected]
(Antwerp) www.amuz.be
inPRIMETIME is a spring festival
that focuses on a central
theme, such as a composer or
an instrument. An unexpected
MA Festival
vantage point is selected with a (Bruges)
view to concretizing each theme. MA Festival Bruges (The Flanders
inPRIMETIME manages to elevate Festival-Musica Antiqua Bruges)
unpredictability to the level is an inter­nationally renowned
of a new art form, capitalizing festival for early music. The
on flexibility as well as on festival plays a leading role
continuously renewing formulas internationally in the discovery,
and appearances. development and innovation
— of early music. Every summer,
AMUZ it organises a wide range of
Bart Demuyt,  activities in the historical setting
general and artistic director of Bruges and its surroundings,
Kammenstraat 81, B-2000 Antwerpen as well as the prestigious MA
+32 3 202 46 69 Competition for young baroque
[email protected] soloists.
www.amuz.be —
 Tomas Bisschop, a
 rtistic director the periods from the Middle
‘t Zand 34 Ages until today, with a special
B-8000 Brugge emphasis on chamber music.
+32 50 33 22 83 Since 2002, its concerts are
[email protected]
doubled in Leuven as part of the
www.mafestival.be
Zomer van Sint-Pieter festival
(in collaboration with the
Leuven cultural centre 30CC).
MeerStemmig Gent —
(Ghent) Bernard Mouton, artistic director
MeerStemmig Gent is a festival Koninklijk Conservatorium
in and around St Macharius Regentschapsstraat 30A
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Church and St Bavo Abbey in B-1000 Brussel

Ghent that aims to present the [email protected]
cultural heritage of (Flemish) www.midis-minimes.be
concert organisations festivals / festival associations

Renaissance polyphony to a wide

audience. MeerStemmig Gent
builds bridges between profes- Zomer van Sint-Pieter
sional ensembles and amateur (Leuven)
ensembles, between the core Since 2001, “Zomer van Sint-
polyphonic repertoire, folk Pieter” has been a summer
music and polyphony in general, festival with 35 lunchtime
and between curious enthusi- concerts in the historic heart
asts and a connoisseur public of Leuven. The name refers
from near and far. MeerStemmig to the location (St Peter’s
Gent is committed to providing a Church where the 2001-2012
stage for beginning professional festival took place) and to
ensembles. Novice ensembles the city’s patron saint. The
and singers from the amateur festival now takes place in
choir world can participate in an the Leuven city theatre and
open mic event and workshops. the Predikherenkerk. On
— four weekdays between the
Jens Van Durme, artistic coordination beginning of July and the end of
Oscar Colbrandtstraat 78 August there are concerts with
B-9040 Sint-Amandsberg (Gent) early music, music from the
+32 475 28 09 34
eighteenth to twentieth century,
[email protected]
www.meerstemmiggent.be
and world music.
—
Annick Dumalin, coordinator
[email protected]
Midis Minimes 30CC/Schouwburg
(Brussels) Bondgenotenlaan 21
Every summer since 1986, B-3000 Leuven
the Midis-Minimes Festival +32 16 23 84 27
has offered short lunchtime
concerts (35 min.) at the Royal
Conservatory of Brussels,
on every weekday between

1 July and 31 August. The

international programme spans
2.1. EFA – European Festivals
Concert Organisations Association
The European Festivals
Association was founded in
1952. Today, EFA connects about
100 festivals and festival associ-
ations in 40 countries. EFA acts
as the most important platform
for arts festivals, with a mission
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the world. Interaction between
2.1.2. festival festivals, public authorities and
associations the other stakeholders in the
arts is central to EFA’s work.
—
Kathrin Deventer, secretary general
European Festivals Association
Sainctelettesquare 17 (mailing
address: Akenkaai 1) 
B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 644 48 00
[email protected]
www.efa-aef.eu

REMA - Early Music in Europe

(Réseau Européen de
Musique Ancienne)
REMA is the only represent-
ative network for Early Music
in Europe. It encourages the
exchange of knowledge, inspi-
ration and co-operations in
the early music field. Created
in Ambronay in 2000 with an
office in Versailles, REMA now
boasts a membership of around
100 concert promoters in 22
European countries. REMA or-
ganizes conferences, animates
online discussion through dig-
ital meetings, promotes young
talent through a European
showcase, and hosts an annual
Early Music Day (21 March) as
well as an Early Music Summit
every three years.
—
 Albert Edelman, president 2.2.
Helena De Winter, executive secretary Research institutions,
c/o CMBV
documentation centres
22 avenue de Paris, BP20353
F-78003 Versailles and libraries
+33 1 39 20 78 03
[email protected]
https://www.rema-eemn.net
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research institutions, documentation centres and libraries

Alamire Foundation, artistic and cultural diversity in
International Centre for the society today. CEMPER advises,
Study of Music in the Low supports and guides all who
Countries come into contact with musical
or performing arts heritage,
The Alamire Foundation was from amateur to professional,
founded in 1991 as a co- from hobbyist to academic,
operative association between from heir to collector.
the University of Leuven (KU —
Leuven, Musicology Research Veerle Wallebroek, director
Unit) and the non-profit Zoutwerf 5
organisation Musica (Impulse B-2800 Mechelen

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Centre for Music). Its mission +32 15 34 94 36
[email protected]
is to undertake, stimulate, and
www.cemper.be
co-ordinate innovative research
on music and musical life in
the Low Countries from the
early Middle Ages until 1800. It Library of the Royal
uses state-of-the art methods, Conservatory Antwerp
including digital preservation. The library of the Antwerp
The Foundation’s research Conservatory (established in
results appear as monographs, 1867) holds more than 600,000
critical editions, facsimile volumes. Early music is well
publications, and articles in represented thanks to the
leading journals. donations of two musicologists:
— Edouard Grégoir and Léon
Bart Demuyt, general director
de Burbure. These donations
Abdij van Park 1
B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven)
contain early editions, psalm
+32 16 32 87 50 books and one of ten extant
[email protected] volumes of Souterliedekens
www.alamirefoundation.org (1540). The early music
collection was expanded thanks
to the efforts of musicologist
CEMPER (Centrum voor and collector J.-A. Stellfeld.
Muziek- en Podiumerfgoed) Among the most valuable
pieces in the library are a chant
Music and the performing arts manuscript from the thirteenth
contribute to the rich culture century, an annotated copy
that characterises Flanders and of Glareanus’ Dodecachordon
Brussels: that of the past as well (1547), a copy of Jacob Van
as that of the present. CEMPER Eyck’s Der Fluyten-Lusthof
aims to preserve traces of this (1644-1646), a volume of songs
culture, pass them on and give by Nicolas de la Grotte (1575),
them a future based on the a collection of antiphons from
conviction that this heritage the mid-fourteenth century, the
is valuable. It defines the only copy of the Beyaert Book
collective memory associated (1746) of Joannes de Gruyter
with music and the performing from Antwerp Cathedral,
arts, and contributes to the late eighteenth-century
 manuscripts of chamber music policy and several donations.
from Antwerp and Brussels and The focus of the collection is
many important first editions on German and Italian music
of mainly French operas. The from the eighteenth century
conservatory also possesses and music by Flemish and
a unique and world-renowned Belgian composers from the
collection of seventeenth- and nineteenth century onwards.
eighteenth-century musical Through the purchase of the
instruments. The most notable former Belgian Center for Music
Antwerp instrument makers, Documentation, the collection
such as Ruckers, Bull, Dulcken, was expanded with the works
Hofmans and Van den Elsche of more than hundred Belgian
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are represented in a collection composers. The Conservatory

preserved in the Museum library is recognized by the
Vleeshuis, Antwerp. Flemish Community with the
research institutions, documentation centres and libraries

— quality label as a heritage

Jan Dewilde, l ibrarian library.
Desguinlei 25 —
B-2018 Antwerpen Johan Eeckeloo,librarian
+32 3 244 18 20 [email protected]
[email protected] Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
www.libraryconservatoryantwerp.be - School of Arts Erasmus University
College
Regentschapsstraat 30
Library of the Royal B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 213 41 30
Conservatory Brussels [email protected] or
(School of Arts Erasmus www.kcb.be
University College)
The library of the Brussels
Conservatory preserves and Library of the Royal
provides access to the largest Conservatory Ghent
music collection in Belgium. The The conservatory library,
physical collection of more than founded in 1835, houses almost
5,500 linear meters contains 200,000 titles. The collection
mostly sheet music. Around comprises specialist literature
a quarter of the collection and over 400 periodicals.
consists of books about music, Among the musical scores
music journals, recordings are rare editions (such as
and music iconography. This is Praetorius’ Syntagma Musicum
complemented by an extensive (1615), historical editions of
electronic library with digitized C.P.E. Bach, Corelli, Couperin,
and born-digital items. The Gluck, Grétry, Haydn, Loeillet,
library functions within the Lully, Mozart, Pleyel, Purcell,
frame of the Conservatory, but Rameau and Viotti), autographs
is also a publicly accessible of composers from Ghent
lending library of sheet music. (Mengal and Miry) and Flanders.
Since its foundation in 1832, it Furthermore, the collection

has formed its unique collection has rare editions of literary

thanks to a targeted purchasing
works by Molière and Corneille. are mainly preserved in
Contemporary music is also the Manuscripts (music
comprehensively represented. manuscripts before ca. 1600),
The collections contain items Rare Books (printed music
on paper and in digital format. before ca. 1600) and Music
— (manuscripts and printed books
Richard Sutcliffe, l ibrarian after ca. 1600) departments.
De Wijnaert The collections include
Geraard de Duivelstraat 5
religious and secular music
B-9000 Gent
+32 9 243 36 70
kept in the chapels and libraries
[email protected] of the Burgundian-Habsburg
www.hogent.be court and its entourage. The

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www.cageweb.be manuscripts produced by the
workshop of Petrus Alamire
(ca. 1470-1536) are highlights
Library of LUCA School of of early sixteenth-century book
Arts, Campus Lemmens, production and key sources
Leuven of Franco-Flemish polyphony.
During the nineteenth and
The library of the Lemmens twentieth centuries, the
Institute contains collections music patrimony of KBR has
for music and drama. It consists considerably increased thanks
of an extensive collection to the acquisition of private
of scores and methods for collections. The purchase of
instrument or voice, a large the music library of François-
number of musicological Joseph Fétis (1784-1871) in
publications, publications on 1872 lies at the basis of the
music education and music Music Department, founded
therapy and a growing drama in 1965. Among the ca. 8.000
collection that includes poetry, books and documents figures
prose, theatre and theory. an autograph of Johann
— Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
Serafina Beck, l ibrarian Other important collections
LUCA - Bibliotheek Lemmens
of manuscript and printed
Lemmensberg 3
B-3000 Leuven
music belonged to Charles Van
+32 2 447 15 33 Hulthem (1764-1832), Jan Frans
[email protected] Willems (1793-1846), Constant
bib.kuleuven.be/luca/ Philippe Serrure (1805-1872)
bibliotheeklemmens and Charles de Coussemaker
(1805-1876). Yearly organised
concert series actively promote
Royal Library of Belgium the performance of the Music
Department’s collections.
The Royal Library of Belgium is Complementary to its regular
the national scientific library digitisation program, KBR
of the Federal State of Belgium. has, moreover, entered into a
Focusing in particular on the partnership with the Alamire
heritage of the Low Countries, Foundation (KU Leuven).
its early music collections The collaboration aims at
 the disclosure, study and the library of Ton Koopman.
valorisation of the library’s early The focus of the collection is on
musical heritage. seventeenth- and eighteenth-
— century music, its cultural
Marie Cornaz, c urator context, and performance
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, practice. Among the thousands
Muziekafdeling
of prints and manuscripts
Kunstberg
B-1000 Brussel
are numerous unique works,
+32 2 519 53 11 including a cantata by Handel
[email protected], [email protected], unknown until recently. In
[email protected] addition to this historical
www.kbr.be library with works from the
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fifteenth to the nineteenth

century, Koopman has also
Library of the Huelgas collected thousands of modern
research institutions, documentation centres and libraries

Ensemble books and periodicals on

Baroque music and culture.
The library of Paul Van Nevel Many have been annotated
and the Huelgas Ensemble extensively. The collection is
contains facsimiles from the the research subject of a new
thirteenth to the sixteenth research group ‘Resounding
centuries, transcriptions of Libraries’, which aims to
manuscripts and accompanying encourage innovative artistic
documentation. The library can practice and develop new
only be visited by appointment. methods within the digital
—
humanities. The collection
Paul Van Nevel, a
 rtistic director
of the Huelgas Ensemble
will be disclosed digitally. The
Huelgas Ensemble Orpheus Institute’s library
Groot Begijnhof 16 contains two other special
B-3000 Leuven collections: the Fonds Johan
+32 468 12 89 Huys (music and literature from
[email protected] the eighteenth and nineteenth
www.huelgasensemble.be century) and the Fonds Gerard
Corver (art philosophy and
psychology).
Library of the Orpheus —
Institute Ghent Peter Dejans,director
Korte Meer 12 (Orpheus library
The Orpheus Institute for collection)
Advanced Studies and Research Korte Meer 20A (Ton Koopman
in Music has provided a rich collection)
educational and research B-9000 Gent
environment for musicians since +32 9 330 40 81
[email protected]
1996. The Orpheus Institute
https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/
keeps its own specialized about-us/library
library of publications on
performance practice, music
theory, aesthetics and (artistic)

philosophy. In 2020, it acquired

Library of Voices Museums for Art and History.
(Alamire Foundation) The MIM’s mission includes
preservation, restoration,
The Library of Voices is a scientific research, information,
contemporary meeting place education, and entertainment.
where book, digital image and Within these activities there
sound are accommodated and is equal attention for early,
made accessible with the latest modern, world and folk music.
techniques. Flemish polyphony The library dates back to the
and plainchant are valued in beginnings of the museum
a documentation centre, a of musical instruments in
sound laboratory and a digital 1877; today the collection is

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library. In this ‘library of the extraordinarily rich and still
future’, digital images of music steadily growing. It contains a
manuscripts from the Low rich collection on organology, as
Countries in high resolution well as publications on Western
are made by the Alamire Digital and traditional, world music,
Lab (ADL) in the Vatican Library, ethnomusicology, performance
the Royal Library in Brussels practice and museum and
(KBR) and in other international exhibition catalogues. The
institutions. The Library of Robert Pernet Fund holds
Voices is the headquarters important publications on jazz
of ADL and the Integrated in Belgium. The Christian Poché
database for Early Music (IDEM). collection holds approximately
The Library is open to visitors 7,000 books and treatises on
from the general public and world music. The museum itself
experts. Research on polyphony exhibits an exceptionally rich
is done using state-of-the-art collection of period instruments
technology for research on that can be seen and heard.
acoustic models of historical —
spaces, in collaboration with Alexandra De Poorter,
the research group ESAT- general director
STADIUS. Muziekinstrumentenmuseum
— Hofberg 2
Bart Demuyt,general director (mailing address: Jubelpark 10)
Abdij van Park 1 B-1000 Brussel
B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven) +32 2 545 01 70
+32 16 32 87 50 [email protected]
[email protected] www.mim.be
www.alamirefoundation.org

Museum Vleeshuis (Antwerp)

Music Instruments Museum
The Museum Vleeshuis | Klank
(MIM) van de Stad (Sound of the
The Musical Instruments City) holds over 4,000 musical
Museum in Brussels was items from the history of
founded in 1877 and was Antwerp, from the Middle Ages
subsumed in 1992 as the fourth to the present day: paintings,
department under the Royal drawings and photos, scores,
 sound recordings and above wishes to explore this music as
all musical instruments, from thoroughly and systematically
fortepianos to violins, from as possible by locating and
organs to clarinets, but also a opening up music archives,
nun’s trumpet, a contrabass creating oeuvre catalogues,
recorder, a glass harp and publishing biographical, music-
many other curiosities. The historical and analytical studies,
Museum Vleeshuis is home to and publishing CDs and scores
the second largest collection (at Musikproduktion Höflich in
of Flemish harpsichords and Munich). SVM is also committed
virginals in the world. Objects to music from the seventeenth
are from the City Collection and eighteenth centuries and
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as well as from the Royal has published scores by Josse

Conservatoire of Antwerp Boutmy (1697-1779), Christoffel
(approximately 500 music Drymans (1738-1797), Joseph
music education conservatories

objects on permanent loan). Hector Fiocco (1703-1741) and

The basement of the museum Willem Gommaar Kennis (1717-
houses reconstructions of a 1789).
bell foundry and a workshop —
for brass instruments. The Jan Dewilde,coordinator
museum tells the story of Studiecentrum voor
Vlaamse Muziek vzw
the city’s official trumpet
Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 155
players, harpsichord makers, B-2018 Antwerpen
carilloneurs, amateur musicians +32 3 244 18 20
and music collectors. The [email protected]
museum’s entire collection can www.svm.be
be browsed online, including
the many pieces that are not
shown in the museum, such as
the Ghysels Collection, with its
beautiful dance organs.
—
Timothy De Paepe,curator
Museum Vleeshuis | Klank van de stad
Vleeshouwersstraat 38
B-2000 Antwerpen
+32 3 292 61 01
[email protected]
www.museumvleeshuis.be

Studiecentrum voor Vlaamse

Muziek vzw
The Studiecentrum voor
Vlaamse Muziek vzw (SVM),
founded in 1998, is a centre
for the conservation, study,
promotion and valorisation of
Flemish music heritage. SVM
2.3. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen –
Music education Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
—
Stefaan De Ruyck,
head of the School of Arts
Inge Simoens,head of classical music
Desguinlei 25
B-2018 Antwerpen
+32 3 244 18 00
[email protected]
www.ap-arts.be
—
Early music teachers Joris Verdin

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2.3.1. Conservatories (organ), Piet Kuijken (pianoforte),
Luc Vanvaerenbergh (harpsichord),
Korneel Bernolet (basso continuo /
harpsichord / baroque repertoire),
Ewald Demeyere (oratorium)

Royal Conservatory Brussels

(School of Arts Koninklijk
Conservatorium Brussel,
Erasmus University College)
—
Kathleen Coessens,
Director School of Arts
[email protected]
Bart Naessens,
head of HIPP department
Regentschapsstraat 30
B-1000 Brussel
+ 32 2 213 41 10
www.kcb.be
—
Early music teachers Ryo Terakado
& Joanna Huszcza (baroque violin),
Philippe Pierlot (viola da gamba),
Alain Gervreau (baroque cello),
Korneel Le Compte (violone /
baroque double bass), Bart Coen
(recorder), Frank Theuns & Anna
Besson (traverso), Marcel Ponseele
(baroque oboe), Herman Stinders,
Maria Gonzalez & Bart Naessens
(harpsichord), Xavier Diaz-Latorre
(historical plucked instruments),
Piet Kuijken & Bojan Vodenitcharov
(pianoforte), Luc Bergé (natural horn),
Javier Zafra (baroque bassoon), Adam
Woolf (historical trombone), Niranjan
Wijewickrema (historical trumpet),
Lambert Colson (cornetto), Guillermo
 Perez (Medieval Praxis), Herman Conservatoire Royal de Liège
Stinders (chamber music), Jan De —
Winne (chamber music), Stefaan Nathanaël Harcq, director
Verdegem (chamber music), Bart Site Forgeur
Naessens (chamber music), Peter Rue Forgeur 14
Van Heyghen (HIP), Dominik Riepe B-4000 Liège
(harpsichord-accompanist) +32 4 222 03 06
[email protected]
www.crlg.be
—
Conservatoire Royal Early music teachers Edward
de Bruxelles Vanmarsenille (basso continuo
— / organ improvisation), Fabian
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Frédéric de Roos, director Balthazart (analysis), Gauthier

Benoit Douchy, h ead of department Bernard, Arnaud Van de Cauter
Regentschapsstraat 30 (organ), Stéphanie de Failly (baroque
B-1000 Brussel
music education conservatories

violin)
+32 2 511 04 27
[email protected]
www.conservatoire.be
— Institut supérieur de
Early music teachers Nicolas Musique et de Pédagogie
Achten (lute / baroque harp, Royal (IMEP)
baroque singing), Claire Chevallier —
(pianoforte), Jean-Pierre Dassonville Guido Jardon, director
(natural horn), Alain de Rijckere Ewald Demeyere, head of early music
(baroque bassoon), Frédéric de Roos department
(recorder), Jan De Winne (traverso), Rue Juppin 28
Benoît Douchy (baroque violin), B-5000 Namur
Hervé Douchy (baroque cello), Mira +32 81 73 64 37
Glodeanu (baroque violin), Frédérick [email protected]
Haas (harpsichord), Nathalie Houtman www.imep.be
(recorder), Benoît Laurent (baroque —
oboe), Benoît Mernier (organ), James Early music teachers Ewald
Munro (violone), Laura Pok (recorder), Demeyere (clavichord), Francis Orval
Tomma Wessel (recorder), Paolo (natural horn), François Fernandez
Zanzu (basso continuo), Vinciane (baroque violin), Ronan Kernoa (viola
Baudhuin (chamber music), Bernard da gamba / baroque cello), Thomas
Woltèche (chamber music), Raphaël Deprez (recorder), Cindy Castillo
Collignon, Ryoko Katayama, Bart (organ), Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans
Naessens, Sayuri Nagoya, Anthony (theory of early music)
Romaniuk, Ganaël Schneider
(accompanists)

ARTS2 Ecole Supérieure

des Arts Mons
—
Michel Stockhem, 
head of music department
Arts2 Conservatoire Royal
Rue de Nimy 7
B-7000 Mons
+ 32 65 34 73 77
[email protected]
www.artsaucarre.be
KASK & Royal Conservatory
school of arts HOGENT &
Howest
—
Lars Kwakkenbos, h ead of department
Campus Grote Sikkel
Biezekapelstraat 9
B-9000 Gent
+32 9 243 20 18
www.schoolofartsgent.be

Early music teachers Patrick
Beuckels & Myriam Graulus (traverso),

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Jeroen Billiet & Rik Vercruysse
(natural horn), Vincenzo Casale, Eddy
Vanoosthuyse, Danny Corstjens &
Marc Kerckhof (historical clarinet),
Sergeï Istomin (historical cello /
viola da gamba), Olga Pashchenko
(harpsichord), Johan Duijck, Vitaly
Samoshko & Daan Vandewalle
(pianoforte / harpsichord, Wim
Maeseele (lute), Wout Bosma, Martin
Daryll, Manu Frederickx, Andreas
Korczak, Francis Ponseele, Nathalie
Posson, Yves Senden, Geerten
Verberkmoes, Johan Vandermaelen
(instrument building)

LUCA School of Arts,

Campus Lemmens, Leuven
—
Thomas De Baets,Head of department
Campus Lemmens
Lemmensberg 3
B-3000 Leuven
+ 32 2 447 15 00
[email protected]
www.luca-arts.be

Early music teachers Bart Coen

& Bart Spanhove (recorder), Luk
Bastiaens, Luc Ponet & Reitze Smits
(organ), Carl Van Eyndhoven (carillon),
Pieterjan Van Kerckhoven (baroque
musette), Floris De Rycker (HIP), Alain
De Rudder (HIP), Jan Vermeulen (HIP)
 2.3. Orpheus Institute Ghent
Music education The Orpheus Institute for
Advanced Studies and Research
in Music has provided a rich ed-
ucational and research environ-
ment for musicians since 1996.
The close link between education
and research creates an inspiring
environment where artists can
experiment, exchange knowledge,
and develop new ideas. In 2004,
the Orpheus Institute introduced
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2.3.2. Postgraduate the first doctoral programme

Education ‘docARTES’ for performers and
music education postgraduate education

composers, in collaboration
with Flemish and Dutch partner
institutions. docARTES is one of
Europe’s leading doctoral schools
in music. It provides a 4-year
doctoral curriculum of research
and training. It allows doctoral
students to develop their artistic
qualities, broaden their academ-
ic knowledge, and expand their
methodological skills. The insti-
tute also offers smaller educa-
tional programmes: the laureate
programme, the advanced cham-
ber music course, and the online
course (MOOC) ‘Artistic Research
in Music – an Introduction.’
—
Peter Dejans,director
Korte Meer 12, B-9000 Gent
+32 9 330 40 81
[email protected]
www.orpheusinstituut.be
2.3. University of Ghent –
Music education Department of Art History,
Musicology and Theatre
Studies
Ghent University offers a
broad, general education
in art sciences, but at the
same time provides the
opportunity to specialize in
an artistic discipline, without
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2.3.3. Universities disciplines. The music major
focuses on two main points:
the European history of music,
and systematic musicology
(research and fundamental
questions about the meaning
of music). IPEM is the research
centre of the Musicology
Section of the Department of
Art, Music and Theatre Studies
at Ghent University. IPEM
provides a scientific basis for
the cultural and creative sector,
in casu music and performance
arts, and does pioneering
research on the relationship
between the movement over
the musical body and new
technologies.
—
Francis Maes,head of
department: historical musicology
Marc Leman,head of
department: IPEM
UGent - Vakgroep voor Kunst-, Muziek-
en Theaterwetenschappen
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41
B-9000 Gent
+32 9 264 39 43
https://www.ugent.be/lw/
kunstwetenschappen/en

University of Leuven:
Musicology Research Unit
Typical of the training and the
musicological research at the
KU Leuven is the interweaving
 of music history and music 2.3.
analysis. The four research Music education
groups (early music, classical
and romantic, new music and
music-cultural studies) set
out from the shared vision
that music-analytical and
music-historical research must
stand in constant interaction.
This vision is also evident in
the department’s teaching
programme, and in its book-
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series Analysis in Context: 2.3.4. Other

Leuven Studies in Musicology.
The Early Music Research
music education other – media

Group focuses on fifteenth- and

sixteenth-century polyphony,
with particular attention
for source-studies and text-
criticism, the relationships
between polyphony and chant, Centrum Gregoriaans
and compositional process. Drongen [Centre for
The group is closely linked with Plainchant]
the Alamire Foundation, the
associated research-centre for The Centre for Plainchant
the study of the music of the annually organizes a plainchant
Low Countries. course in the Old Abbey of
— Drongen. The course extends
Pieter Bergé,head of department over three years and is aimed
& head of Classical and Romantic at both professional musicians
Research Group and music lovers. In addition to
David Burn,head of
theory and (neumatic) notation,
Early Music Research Group
Bart Demuyt,general director
attention is paid to singing.
—
Alamire Foundation
Centrum Gregoriaans
KU Leuven - Afdeling Musicologie
Keldermansvest 47
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, bus 3313
B-2800 Mechelen
B-3000 Leuven
+ 32 15 20 18 26
+32 16 32 50 50
[email protected]
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/
www.centrumgregoriaans.be
musicology
Teachers Franco Ackermans, Peter
Canniere, Joachim Kelecom, Cyriel
Tonnaer, Joris Polfliet, Luc Vermeulen
2.4.
Media

131
—
VRT
Vlaamse Radio- en
VRT is the public broadcasting Televisieomroeporganisatie
company for the Flemish Auguste Reyerslaan 52
Community and member of B-1043 Brussel
+ 32 2 741 31 11
the European Broadcasting
www.vrt.be
Union. Klara is the cultural www.klara.be
radio channel of VRT. It offers
classical, jazz, and world music
as well as cultural information.
The programmes include live
RTBF – Belgian French-
regional concerts and concerts speaking radio and television
originating from the EBU. Klara Musiq’3 is the cultural radio
has its own CD label, organises channel of RTBF. It broadcasts
concerts and awards for the programmes dedicated to
best artists of the year, and classical music, jazz, and
makes podcasts about music world music. Besides, Musiq’3
or other types of culture. TV organises two festivals: Festival
channel Canvas is the ideal Musiq3 Brussels and Festival
guide for those who foster Musiq3 Brabant Wallon.
broad interests and are keen —
to stay informed about current Eve Marie Vaes,
affairs, science, history, culture, editorial chief Musiq’3
fiction, humour, and sports. Boulevard Auguste Reyers 52
— B-1044 Brussels
Tinka Claeys, coordinator culture and +32 2 737 21 11
innovation www.rtbf.be/musiq3
Olivier Goris, net manager Canvas &
Één (tv)
Chantal Pattyn, net manager Klara website 
(radio) earlymusic.be 
Karen Billiet, coordinator culture unit
Liesbet Vereertbrugghen, producer Belgian Early Music Community VZW
classical music, coordination Klara Mellaertsstraat 1B
Els ‘t Seyen, producer Klara 2140 Antwerpen
 2.5.
academic publications
132

Journal of the Alamire Leuven Library of Music in

Foundation Facsimile
academic publications

The Journal of the Alamire The series Leuven Library of

Foundation provides a critical Music in Facsimile presents
forum for the most recent high-quality reproductions
and outstanding research on of primary music sources
music in, from, or related to of outstanding aesthetic,
the Low Countries up to the historical and cultural value.
end of the Ancien Régime. It The series is broadly conceived,
appears twice yearly. Each issue covering monophony and
consists of three sections: polyphony, both vocal and
the first focuses on a specific instrumental, from the Middle
theme, the second contains free Ages, the Renaissance and later
papers applying the full range times. In order to approach the
of musicological approaches original documents as closely as
on any relevant topic. The third possible, each facsimile is in full
section fulfils the Foundation’s colour and at original size. Each
mission of promoting dialogue facsimile is also accompanied
between the worlds of by an extended commentary,
performance and scholarship written by a leading expert, that
by offering discussion of a sets out the most recent and
recent performance event or up-to-date assessment of the
publication. source, including codicology,
— contents, history and context.
Bart Demuyt, —
director Alamire Foundation Bart Demuyt,
David Burn & Sarah Ann Long, director Alamire Foundation
general editors Bart Demuyt & David Burn,
Abdij van Park 1 general editors
B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven) Abdij van Park 1
+32 16 32 87 50 B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven)
[email protected] +32 16 32 87 50
https://alamirefoundation.org/en/ https://alamirefoundation.org/en/
valorisation/in-print/journal-of-the- valorisation/in-print/leuven-library-
alamire-foundation of-music-in-facsimile/leuven-library-
of-music-in-facsimile

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Publications of the Orpheus
Institute
The Orpheus Institute regularly
issues new publications to
present and share research
findings and to pass on the
benefits to other researchers,
professional practitioners and
the wider community. Research
and artistic realisations
(performances, compositions,
etc.) can be presented in digital
media as well as printed texts.
They meet high international
scientific standards and hold
the GPRC-label (Guaranteed
Peer Reviewed Content).
Current and past publications
of the Orpheus Institute are the
Orpheus Institute Series (2013-
...), Mixed media outcomes
(2017-...), ORCiM Series
(2009-2011), Web publications
(2009-...) and Collected Writings
of the Orpheus Institute Series
(1999-2014).
—
Peter Dejans,
director Orpheus Institute
Orpheus Instituut
Korte Meer 12
B-9000 Gent
+32 9 330 40 81
[email protected]
https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/
publications
 2.6.
Booking Agencies

Ariën, Arts & Music Els & the Artists

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Management, b.v. —
— Els Moens,manager
[email protected]
booking agencies – publishers

Pascale Montauban,administrator
Groot-Brittaniëlaan 27-29 Artiestenbureau Els & the Artists
B-9000 Gent Kauwplein 11
+32 9 330 39 90 B-9000 Gent
[email protected] +32 496 81 39 97
www.arien-artists.com www.elsandtheartists.be

Artists Guy de Mey (tenor), Korneel Artists Les Abbagliati, Romina

Bernolet (harpsichord / conductor), Lischka, Hathor Consort, Sofie
Mireille Capelle (mezzo), Lore Vanden Eynde, Imago Mundi
Binon (soprano), Laurence Servaes
(soprano), Ivan Thirion (baritone),
Lars Piselé (tenor), Kris Belligh Weinstadt Artists
(baritone), Vincent Lesage (tenor),
Management
Jonathan De Ceuster (countertenor),
—
Charles Dekeyser (bas), Denzil Delaere
Luc Van Loocke,manager
(tenor), Lotte Verstaen (mezzo),
Populierenlaan 3 bus 26
Hendrickje Van Kerckhove (soprano),
B-2020 Antwerpen
Joris Van den Hauwe (oboe)
+32 3 257 55 65
[email protected]
www.concerts-weinstadt.com
Bookman
— Artists Ensemble Masques,
Stijn Jacobs,artist manager Olivier Fortin, Scherzi Musicali,
[email protected] Nicolas Achten, Hesperion XXI, Le
Waterkersstraat 12 Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall,
B-1020 Brussel Ton Koopman, Maurice Steger,
+32 479 446 746 The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars,
Contrapunctus
Artists ClubMediéval, Transports
Publics, Thomas Baeté, Didier
Francois, Psallentes, Hendrik Vanden
Abeele, Capriola di Gioia, Bart
Naessens

2.7.
Publishers

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Alamire Music Publishers Davidsfonds VZW -
— —
Herman Baeten,director Davidsfonds Uitgeverij
Alamire muziekuitgeverij vzw (in collaboration with
Toekomstlaan 5B Standaard Uitgeverij)
B-3910 Neerpelt Kris Opdedrynck,general director
+32 11 610 510 Quinten Metsysplein 12
[email protected] B-3000 Leuven
www.alamire.com +32 16 31 06 00
[email protected]
www.davidsfonds.be
Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
—
Kristof Lamberigts,director Leuven University Press
Burgstraat 18K —
B-9000 Gent Veerle De Laet,
+32 9 268 26 00 managing director & publisher
[email protected] Minderbroedersstraat 4, bus 5602
www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be B-3000 Leuven
+32 16 32 53 45
[email protected]
www.lup.be
Brepols Publishers
—
Johan Van der Beke,publisher art
history & musicology Peeters Publishing
Begijnhof 67 —
B-2300 Turnhout Bondgenotenlaan 153
+32 14 44 80 20 B-3000 Leuven
[email protected], johan. +32 16 24 40 00
[email protected] [email protected]
www.brepols.net www.peeters-leuven.be
 2.8.
Record Companies
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Accent Flora
— —
c/o Outhere Music Kelys s.p.r.l - FLORA
record companies

Rue de l’épargne 29 19 place de Bronckart

B-1000 Brussel B-4000 Liège
+32 2 373 82 00 +32 4 253 47 21
[email protected] www.labelflora.net
www.outhere-music.com

Fuga Libera
Alpha Classics —
— Jérôme Lejeune,artistic director
c/o Outhere Music c/o Outhere Music
Rue de l’épargne 29 Rue de l’épargne 29
B-1000 Brussel B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 373 82 00 +32 2 373 82 00
[email protected] [email protected]
www.outhere-music.com www.outhere-music.com

Cypres Records Harmonia Mundi Belgium

— —
Cédric Hustinx,director Amandine Quisenaire &
Rue Lebeau 39 Jolien Nickmans
B-1000 Brussel Rue Saint-Laurent 36-38
+32 2 550 13 30 B-1000 Brussel
[email protected] [email protected]
www.cypres-records.com www.harmoniamundi.com

Etcetera Records Kattenberg recordings

— —
Dirk De Greef,director Geert Van Gele
[email protected] Kattenberg 43
c/o Quintessence bvba B-2140 Borgerhout
Larenstraat 58 +32 3 236 66 32
B-3560 Lummen [email protected]
+32 477 29 27 58 www.kattenbergrecordings.be

www.etcetera-records.com
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Kattenberg Lab Musica Ficta
—
Kattenberg Lab is a silent Bernard Mouton,artistic director
acoustic space that is made Bertrand de Wouters d’Oplinter,
available to chamber music executive producer
ensembles of up to 9 people on c/o La Boîte à Musique
a low budget. This space is ideal Coudenberg 74
for rehearsals and for making B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 513 09 65
sound and video recordings.
[email protected]
—
www.musica-ficta.com
Geert Van Gele
Kattenberg 51
B-2140 Borgerhout
+32 3 236 66 32 Passacaille Records
[email protected] —
www.kattenbergrecordings.be Jan De Winne,director
c/o Musurgia BVBA
Rue de l’Augette 44
B-1330 Rixensart
Klara +32 492 95 15 05
[email protected]
The classical radio station of
www.passacaille.be
the Flemish public broadcast
company, collaborates with
other labels.
— Pavane Records
[email protected] —
klara.be Bertrand de Wouters d’Oplinter
c/o La Boîte à Musique
Coudenberg 74
B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 513 09 65
www.pavane.com
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φ (Phi)
—
Philippe Herreweghe,artistic director
instrument makers keyboards

c/o Outhere Music

Rue de l’épargne 29
B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 373 82 00
[email protected]
www.outhere-music.com

Ricercar
—
Jérôme Lejeune,artistic director
c/o Outhere Music
Rue de l’épargne 29
B-1000 Brussel
+32 2 373 82 00
[email protected]
www.outhere-music.com

2.9. Jan Boon
Instrument organ and harpsichord
Makers manufacture
—
F-81170 Cordes-sur-Ciel
[email protected]

Johan Deblieck
organ manufacture
—
Deblieck orgelbouw BVBA
Florimond de Pauwstraat 61

139
B-1070 Brussel
2.9.1. Keyboards +32 476 42 09 93
[email protected]
www.deblieck.org

Jan Lapon
organ manufacture
and restoration
—
Nijverheidsstraat 1
B-8600 Diksmuide
+32 51 50 54 34
+32 478 90 97 83
[email protected]
www.lapon.be

Chris Maene
pianos, organs, harpsichords,
fortepianos
—
Industriestraat 42
B-8755 Ruiselede
+32 51 68 64 37
+32 484 15 19 89
[email protected]
www.maene.be, www.chrismaene.be

Sigurd Malfait
harpsichords
—
+32 477 28 94 85
[email protected]
https://harpsichords-sigurd.wixsite.
com/harpsichords-sigurd
 Mark Nagels
organ manufacture
and restoration
—
Zwarteindestraat 96
B-3850 Kozen-Nieuwerkerken
+32 11 31 35 88
[email protected]

Pels – D’Hondt
organ manufacture
and restoration
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—
Bert De Vylder,bestuurder
Dorp 73
instrument makers string instruments

B-2230 Herselt
+32 475 24 55 42
[email protected]
www.pels.be

Joris Potvlieghe
clavichords, organs
—
Zeuningenstraat 45
B-1570 Tollembeek
T:+32 54 58 72 16
[email protected]
www.jorispotvlieghe.be

Jan Van Den Hemel

production and restoration
of harpsichords, spinets and
fortepianos
—
Van Trierstraat
B-2018 Antwerpen
www.janvandenhemel.blogspot.com

2.9. Wim Baeck
Instrument classical and baroque violins
Makers and violas, early baroque bows,
hardanger fiddles
—
Haachtsesteenweg 24
B-1210 Brussel
+32 485 76 49 72
[email protected]

Kristof Braekman
violins, violas, cellos, viols, lutes,

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guitars, violas da gamba
2.9.2. String —
instruments Karel Seclefstraat 49
B-2180 Ekeren
+32 3 646 55 00
[email protected]
www.kristofinstrumenten.be

Dirk De Hertogh
lutes and early plucked
instruments
—
Westrodestraat 16
B-1861 Wolvertem
+32 52 30 12 17
+32 475 67 68 46
[email protected]

Mich De Bruyn
viola da gamba
—
Akrenbos 114B
B-1547 Bever
+32 54 58 66 03
[email protected]

Luc Deneys
violins, reproductions of historical
string instruments
—
Sint Jacobsnieuwstraat 36
B-9000 Gent
+32 92 24 18 35
[email protected]
www.deneys.com
 Jean Pierre Gheerardyn Katrien Vandermeersch
baroque violins, baroque cellos, baroque violins, violas, cellos
violas da gamba —
— Gemeentestraat 5 bus 11
Zandstraat 599 2300 Turnhout
B-8200 Brugge St-Andries +32 498 10 95 92
[email protected] [email protected]
www.vioolbouwer-gheerardyn.be www.luthier-vandermeersch.eu

Jean-Pierre Hemmeryckx Joris Wouters (La Corda)

viol, violin, violoncello, —
harpsichord Tolhuis 5
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— B-2260 Westerlo
Brusselseheerweg 73 +32 478 33 32 40
B-9403 Neigem [email protected]
www.lacorda.be
instrument makers traditional instruments

+32 496 18 60 04
[email protected]
www.viols.be

Toon Lauwers
historical and classical guitars,
lutes (building and restoration)
—
Louis De Baerdemaekerstraat 67A
B-2880 Hingene (Bornem)
+32 498 05 69 95
[email protected]
www.toonlauwers.be

Joseph Moreau
violas da gamba, cellos,
violins, vedels,...
—
Krekelenberg 7
B-2830 Blaasveld (Willebroek)
+32 479 50 05 61
[email protected]
www.josephmoreau.be

Wim Raymaekers
reconstruction of violins and other
historical string instruments
—
Bornestraat 16
B-3012 Wilsele
+32 496 63 01 01
[email protected]
www.organologie.be

2.9. Arie De Keyzer
Instrument Flemish bagpipes, flutes
—
Makers
Vaart Links 89
B-9850 Nevele
+353 866 08 03 52
[email protected]
http://users.telenet.be/ariedekeyzer
www.pipesandflutes.ie

Jaak De Vuyst
modern and historical

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hurdy gurdies
2.9.3. Traditional —
instruments [email protected]

Danny Van den Herrewegen

hurdy gurdies, dulcimer
—
Steenweg 2 , B-9661 Parike
+32 55 42 72 83
[email protected]

Herman Dewit
bagpipes, folk instruments
—
Molenstraat 62
B-1755 Kester (Gooik)
+32 54 56 64 39
+32 478 78 06 27
[email protected]
http://home.scarlet.be/spb8148/

Olle Geris
Flemish & French
(historical) bagpipes
—
Wislez 2, B-4910 Theux
+32 87 22 87 37
[email protected]
www.ollegeris.com

Geert Lejeune
flutes and bagpipes
—
Spoorwegstraat 308
B-8200 Brugge
+32 478 30 65 84
[email protected]
www.geertlejeune.com
 2.9. Gunther Cogen
Instrument natural trumpet
—
Makers
Sweigers-Zuid 3a
B-9140 Temse
+32 472 13 42 63
[email protected]
www.trombacogen.be

Jan De Winne
baroque traversos
—
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Rue de l’Augette 44
2.9.4. Wind instruments B-1330 Rixensart
+32 492 95 15 05
instrument makers wind instruments

[email protected]

Francis & Marcel Ponseele

baroque oboes, oboe d’amore,
oboe da caccia
—
St. Jacobsstraat 10
B-8340 Damme
+32 50 60 59 36
+32 478 36 39 30
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Stéphanie & Alain Weemaels

baroque flutes
—
Avenue Henri Bourgys 23
B-1410 Waterloo
+32 2 642 90 04
[email protected]
www.weemaelsflutes.be

Nathaniel Wood
reproductions of historic brass
instruments
—
Rue de Prague 28
B-1060 Brussel
+32 485 34 66 06
www.tubaductilis.com

2.9. International Lutherie
Instrument School Antwerp (ILSA)
Makers ILSA is an instrument building
school that is part of the
Provincial Technical Schools
in Boom. It offers one of the
best violin and guitar making
courses in Europe. Like its
partner schools in Cremona,
Mittenwald, Mirecourt and
Newark, it focuses on full-time

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education. The large number of
2.9.5. Apprenticeships practicum hours, the mandatory
instrument internships and the integrated
building restoration training ensure the
quality of this programme. The
student population varies in age
and nationality; it comprises
students from Belgium, other
European countries, Hong Kong
and the USA.
—
Johan Hertogs,verantwoordelijke
Beukenlaan 44 /1
B-2850 Boom
+32 3 880 82 39
[email protected]
www.ilsa.nu

Centre for the manufacture

of music instruments (CMB)
The Centrum voor
muziekinstrumentenbouw
(CMB) is a training and
documentation centre with
as goal disseminating and
promoting the knowledge
and richness of the craft of
instrument making. CMB trains
people to become professional
instrument builders, and
offers the opportunity for
acquaintance with the field
or further training. There
is a documentation centre
with professional literature
and building plans as well
 as a warehouse/shop for the
purchase of tonewood and
specific materials.
—
Martina Gozzini,general coordination
Guido Gezellelaan 89
B-2870 Puurs-Sint-Amands
+32 3 889 49 33
[email protected]
www.cmbpuurs.be

KASK & Royal Conservatory

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school of arts HOGENT &

Howest
instrument makers apprenticeships

The musical instrument making

major studies the morphology
of musical instruments in view
of construction, reconstruction
and preservation. The
programme wishes to counter
the tendency towards
uniformity and explore the
limitless sound potential
of acoustic instruments.
In doing so, the discipline
makes a contribution to the
performance practice of both
early and new music.
—
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Campus Grote Sikkel
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context

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 3.1. Since the 1980’s, in Belgium
About cultural policy the culture policy belongs
to the competence of the
communities. This means
that the country no longer
has one Federal Ministry of
Culture, but three, respectively
for the Flemish and German
communities, and the
Federation Wallonia-Brussels.
Each Ministry of Culture has
its own Agency for the carrying
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out of its policies. In Flanders it

is the ‘Department of Culture,
Youth and Media’. For the
about cultural policy

Wallonia-Brussels Federation, it
is the ‘General Culture Agency
– General Service for Artistic
Creation’ and ‘Wallonia-Brussels
International’.

Flanders

Rules for subsidies have been critics, curators, mediators and

subsumed under one single organisations from Flanders in
decree for the arts that is valid small-scale initiatives abroad.
for all disciplines of the fine Exceptionally, an allowance
arts, except literature and can also be granted to foreign
single-screen audiovisual arts. guests who have been invited to
Flanders.
Even foreign organisers/
producers can apply for
subsidies. Here follows a short International network

149
survey of the most important organisations
subsidies for international By these are meant
collaboration: organisations that unite
members around a certain
topic or sector. Members are
Projects recruited internationally. The
The concept of a ‘project’ aim of these networks is (1) to
can refer to the following exchange and build up know-
activities: international tours, how around a certain topic or
co-productions, commissioning sector and on the basis of that
new works, exchanges, etc. (2) to contribute to influencing
Evidently it is important for an international cultural policy.
the project to be significantly These networks shall be eligible
embedded in the Flemish for subsidisation depending on
context. the added value they provide for
Flemish members and on the
support and impact they may
Work visits: residencies have at international fora.
By work visits are meant (long-
term) visits of Flemish artists or Network organisations that are
members of arts organisations currently being supported are
abroad to work with (prominent) IETM (International Network
arts institutions or under the for Contemporary Performing
guidance of prominent foreign Arts) and EFA (European Festival
artists. Association).

Further information:
Contributions towards —
travel, accommodation and Department of Culture,
Youth and Media
transport costs from and to Arenbergstraat 9
foreign countries: BE - 1000 BRUSSEL
By these contributions are +32 (0)553.69.77
meant: allowances for travel, [email protected]
accommodation or transport [email protected]
costs. The main concern is the www.vlaanderen.be/cjm
active participation of artists,
 Wallonia-Brussels Federation

The Classical and W.B.I. supports Belgian music

contemporary music sector professionals from the
service Wallonia-Brussels Federation in
the following ways:
One of the sectors under • Mobility: payment or
the control of the General contribution to the travel
Service of Artistic Creation, costs of artists/lecturers;
the Classical & Contemporary • Promotion of sound material:
Music service’s mission is to financial contribution to
promote, sustain and develop press expenses;
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the mobility of professional • Financial support of a

ensembles and performers, promotional tour of a
and to develop the musical performer/group;
about cultural policy

contemporary creation in the • Financial contribution for

Wallonia-Brussels Federation. external markets prospection
It is done in particular by travels;
according grants to the • First showcase support for
institutions, organisations, abroad premieres of new
composers and performers and material;
by supporting the production of W.B.I. supports the organisation
CD recordings. of international events in
— Wallonia and Brussels the
[email protected] following ways:
www.creationartistique.cfwb.be • Financial contribution to the
hosting of foreign producers;
• Financial support to the
Wallonia-Brussels hosting and/or the payment
International (W.B.I.) of artists in the frame of the
organization of international
WBI is the public administration festivals.
in charge of the international • For concert producers,
relations of Wallonia-Brussels. financial contribution to a
It is the tool of international tour of foreign artists.
politics managed by Wallonia,
the Wallonia-Brussels Further information:
Federation and the French —
Wallonia-Brussels International
Community Commission of
2, Place Sainctelette
the Brussels-Capital Region. BE - 1080 Brussels
The department specialised in +32 (0)2.421.82.11
the field of music is ‘Wallonie- [email protected]
Bruxelles Musiques’ (WBM). www.wbi.be

Wallonia-Brussels Music

https://www.wbmusiques.be
The German-speaking Community (named Ostbelgien)

The German-speaking
Community exercises its
powers in the communes of
the province of Liège and the
German-speaking area.
In the German-speaking
Community, the legislative
power is exercised by a
Parliament and a Government.
The Parliament of the German-

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speaking Community consists
of 25 members. One of them
has a seat in the federal
Senate. The Parliament of the
German-speaking Community is
directly elected. So it consists
exclusively of directly elected
members.
Just like the Parliaments of the
Flemish Community and the
French-speaking Community,
the Parliament of the German-
speaking Community votes on
decrees.
The executive power is
exercised by the Government
of the German-speaking
Community. This consists of a
Minister-President and three
Ministers.

—
Both the Council and the Ministry
of the German-speaking Community
have their own information service
and an official web site.
For information on culture:
https://www.ostbelgienlive.be
 3.2. Pieter Andriessen (ed.),
further reading Authentiek of Fanatiek. 25 jaar
on early music in La Petite Bande, Peer: Alamire,
Belgium 1997.

Pieter Andriessen, Die van

muziken gheerne horen. Muziek in
Brugge 1200-1800, Bruges: West
Vlaamse Gidsenkring, 2002.

Herman Baeten, ‘Early Music

in Flanders’, https://classics.
152

flandersartsinstitute.be/
longread/early -music-flanders .
further reading

Herman Baeten (ed.), Hendrik

van Veldeke en zijn muziek, 
Neerpelt: Alamire, 2014.

Ignace Bossuyt, De Vlaamse

polyfonie, Leuven: Davidsfonds,
1994.

Laurens De Keyzer, Anima

Eterna. Jos Van Immerseel, Tielt:
Lannoo, 2007.

Bart De Vos (ed.), Musica

Antiqua revisited. On the future
of the past, Brussels: Flanders
Music Centre, 2010.

Bart Demuyt (ed.), A baroque

marvel as a contemporary concert
hall, Antwerp: Standaard,
Davidsfonds, AMUZ, 2018.

Johan Eeckeloo, ‘François

Auguste Gevaert and the Brussels
Conservatoire Library’, Revue
belge de musicologie / Belgisch
tijdschrift voor muziek–
wetenschap 65, 2011, 21–42

Mark Everist, ‘Gevaert, Pieter Mannaerts, ‘Gevaert
‘Musicology’ and ‘La Musique and the study of plainchant’, 
Ancienne’’, Revue belge de Revue belge de musicologie /
musicologie / Belgisch tijdschrift Belgisch tijdschrift voor
voor muziekwetenschap 64, muziekwetenschap 64, 2010,
2010, 99–101. 131–155.

Bernard Gagnepain, ‘Safford Marc Peire, ‘La musique baroque

Cape et le ‘miracle’ Pro Musica en flandre’, Septentrion 18,
Antiqua’, Revue belge de 1989, 36-40.
musicologie / Belgisch tijdschrift
voor muziekwetenschap 34/35, Marc Peire, ‘Performing Early

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1980, 204–219. Music in the Low Countries’, The
Low Countries. Arts and Society
Malou Haine, ‘Gevaert et la in Flanders and the Netherlands.
musique ancienne’, Revue A Yearbook, 1994-1995, 210-
belge de musicologie / 214.
Belgisch tijdschrift voor
muziekwetenschap 64, 2010, Christophe Pirenne, Les
205–219. musiques nouvelles en Wallonie et
Bruxelles, Liège: Mardaga, 2004
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L
Polyphony Connects. 21-30 Marcel Ponseele, ‘Op zoek
augustus 2020. Programme naar een verloren klankkleur’, 
booklet, Antwerp: AMUZ, 2020. Vlaanderen 48, 1999, 193-194.

Michael Lomax, Geert Elise Simoens & Jan

Robberechts, Jan Vangansbeke Nuchelmans, Historische
(eds.), La Petite Bande. De eerste Uitvoeringspraktijk? 
40 jaar / The first 40 years, 1972- (Concertgebouwcahier), Ghent:
2012, Tielt: Lannoo, 2012. Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2011.

Francis Maes & Katia Segers,  Sofie Taes, Het klavecimbel van
Het Festival van Vlaanderen als Ligeti. Van Musica Antiqua tot
actor in cultuur, Tielt: Lannoo MA Festival, Bruges, 2013
Campus, 2019.
Peter Vandeweerdt, ‘On
Pieter Mannaerts (ed.),  historical performance practice
Beghinae in cantu instructae. in Flanders and its international
Musical patrimony from Flemish ramifications’, Guide to Early
beguinages (Middle Ages-Late Music in Flanders, Brussel:
18th C.), (Epitome musical), Kunstenpunt, 2de ed., 2009
Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
Jolande van der Klis, Een
tuitje in de aardkorst. Kroniek
van de oude muziek 1976-2006, 
Kampen: Kok, 2007.
 Jolande van der Klis, Oude
muziek in Nederland. Het
verhaal van de pioniers 1900-
1975, Kampen: Kok, 1991.

Liesbet Vereertbruggen, Nicole

Van Opstal, Hendrik Vanden
Abeele, De stilte van de muziek
voor Bach. Zestig sleutelwerken
uit tien eeuwen muziek (600-
1600), Bruges: Borgherhoff &
Lamberigts, 2020.
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Stef Coninx, Pieter Mannaerts,
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Dan Frett, translation

Princen + De Roy, design
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Belgium and to
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