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75 years with

the concierto de Aranjuez

“The other side of Joaquin Rodrigo”

Guest of honor

Cecilia Rodrigo, Joaquin Rodrigo’s daughter

and director of the Rodrigo Foundacion.

An initiative of Antigoni Goni

and research coordinator Kristin Van den Buys

in collaboration with Bart Bouckaert

Lena Lootens, Eric Robberecht and Inge Spinette



Foreword

I feel most honored for the tribute that the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

dedicates to the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, my father, on the occasion

of the 75th anniversary of the premiere of the famous Concierto de Aranjuez

(Barcelona, November 9th, 1940)

I feel a great satisfaction for bringing “the other Joaquín Rodrigo”, to the

attention of young people, offering them the opportunity to become better

acquainted with some less known works of his rich repertoire.

This ambicious project, which combines the study of different works,

enriched by master classes by prestigious specialists in the music of Joaquín

Rodrigo, has materialized thanks to the enthusiastic initiative of Antigoni Goni,

the great guitarist and professor of this distinguished conservatoire, with the

full support of Director Peter Swinnen and the professors who have prepared

the different works to be performed at the closing concert. Antigoni Goni’s

contribution to the tribute to Joaquin Rodrigo is vital to the success of this

project, as well as the outstanding level of students participating.

The music of Joaquín Rodrigo has been performed at the Great Concert Hall

of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels for many years (I myself have attended

memorable concerts there.) But the series of activities composing this event

contribute to a better and more academic knowledge of his production,

culminating in a great final concert which has a special sentimental aspect for

us. My husband, Agustín León Ara, whose link to this institution dates back

more than 30 years, first as student, later as professor and concert soloist,

brought me to Brussels in 1963 and in this city we founded our home and our

family and carried out our professional activities for more than 25 years. This ofcourse prompted numerous visits by Joaquín Rodrigo and his wife, Victoria.

In this sense, we are most proud about this unique event that deserves my

deepest gratitude to the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel’s board and

students, together with the support of the Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo

Foundation.

Cecilia Rodrigo

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MASTERCLASS VIOLIN by AUGUSTINE LEON ARA 10.00 -13.00 & 15.00 - 17.00 • KLEINE CONCERTZAAL | Kleine Zavel

10:00 “Sonata pimpante” for violin and piano

Matyas Mezes, violin / Tim Mulleman, piano

11:00 “Siciliana” for cello and piano

Witske Holtrop, cello / Tim Mulleman, piano

12:00 ”Set cançons valencianes” (Nr 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7)

Matyas Mezes, violin / Noam Kanter, guitar

15:00 “Liricas castellanas”

Eurydice Novak, soprano / Eva Bylois, flute,

Frauke Elsen, oboe / Andrew Wygant, guitar

16:00 ”Cuatro madrigales amatorios” Esther Kouwenhove, soprano / Katherine Sebring, piano


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MASTERCLASS & PRESENTATION by ODAIR ASSAD

10.00 -13.00 • KLEINE CONCERTZAAL | Kleine Zavel

on J. Rodrigo’s ‘Tonadilla’ for 2 guitars

Maarten Vandenbemden, guitar

Luca Isolani, guitar

THURSDAY 29th of October



6 || 75 years with the Concierto de Aranjuez

FRIDAY 30th of October

WORKSHOP by ANTONIA SANDOVAL (VOICE) 15.00 - 19.00 • KLEINE CONCERTZAAL | Kleine Zavel

On Rodrigo’s works for voice and other instruments

MASTERCLASS GUITAR by MARCO SOCIAS 10.00 -13.00 & 15.00 - 18.00 • KLEINE CONCERTZAAL | Kleine Zavel

10:00 “Serenata al Alba del Dia”

Lorena Mendez, flute / Yiannis Efstathopoulos , guitar

11:00 “Tonadilla”

Maarten Vandenbemden, guitar / Luca Isolani, guitar

12:00 “Aranjuez, ma pensée” Eurydice Novak, soprano / Maarten Vandenbemden, guitar

15: 00 “Liricas castellanas”

Eurydice Novak, soprano / Eva Bylois, flute

Frauke Elsen, oboe / Andrew Wygant, guitar

16: 00 “Concierto De Aranjuez”

Ittay Cohen, guitar

17:00 ”Set cançons valencianes”





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LECTURE by JAVIER SUAREZ PAJARES11.00 • KLEINE CONCERTZAAL | Kleine Zavel

“The other side of Joaquin Rodrigo”

SATURDAY 31th of October

LECTUREby CECILIA RODRIGO

18.00 • CONCERTZAAL | Regentschapsstraat

Cecilia Rodrigo Joaquin Rodrigo’s daughter and director of the Rodrigo Foundacion

“ 75 years with the Concerto Aranjuez”

with Augustine Leon Ara, Javier Suarez Pajares and Marco Socias

who will perform parts of the Concierto d’Aranjuez




GALA CONCERT “THE OTHER SIDE OF JOAQUIN RODRIGO”

20.00 • CONCERTZAAL | Regentschapsstraat

Aranjuez, ma pensée, 1968

Text: Victoria Kamhi

Eurydice Novak, soprano / Maarten Vandenbemden, guitar

Tonadilla, 1959

Allegro na non troppo Minueto pomposo Allegro vivace

Maarten Vandenbemden, guitar / Luca Isolani, guitar

Cuatro madrigales amatorios, 1947

¿Con qué la lavaré?

Vos me matásteis

¿De dónde venís, amore

De los álamos vengo, madre

Texts: Anonymous

Esther Kouwenhove, soprano / Katherine Sebring, piano

Sonata Pimpante, 1966

Allegro Adagio, Allegro vivace, Adagio Allegro molto

Matyas Mezes, violin / Tim Mulleman, piano

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SATURDAY 31st of October




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Set cançons valencianes, 1982

Allegretto

Andante Moderato

Andante Moderato e Molto CantabileAndantino

Tempo di Bolero


Siciliana, 1929

Witske Holtrop, cello and Tim Mulleman, piano

Liricas castellanas, 1980

San Juan y Pasqua

Despedida y soledad

Espera del amado

Anonymous texts,adapted by Victoria Kamhi

Eurydice Novak, soprano / Eva Bylois, flute

Frauke Elsen, oboe /Andrew Wygant, guitar




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BIOGRAPHIESGuest Artists



JOAQUIN RODRIGO Marques de los Jardines de Aranjuez, 1901-1999

Joaquín Rodrigo was born in Sagunto (Valencia) on St Cecilia's day, the patron saint ofmusic, 22 November 1901. At the age of three he lost his sight as a result of an epidemic ofdiphtheria. As he himself was later to affirm, this event undoubtedly led to a vocationtowards music. His first compositions date from 1923: Suite for piano, Dos esbozos (‘TwoSketches’) for violin and piano, and Siciliana for cello. In 1924 he obtained a diploma in anational competition for the orchestral work Cinco piezas infantiles, which was premiered

in Paris in 1929 by the Straram Orchestra.From the outset of his career Rodrigo wrote all his works in braille, dictating them subse-quently to a copyist.. In 1927, following the example of his predecessors Albéniz, Falla, Granados and Turina,Rodrigo moved to Paris to enrol at the École Normale de Musique, where he studied for fiveyears with Paul Dukas, who had a particular affection for his Spanish pupil. Rodrigo soonbecame known as both pianist and composer, and became friendly with Honegger,Milhaud, Ravel and many other musical celebrities of the time, among them Manuel deFalla, whose advice and support would be decisive in his career. In 1933 he married the

Turkish pianist Victoria Kamhi, who thenceforth until her death in 1997 became his insepa-rable companion and the most important collaborator in all aspects of his work as acomposer. They returned to Spain in 1939 to settle permanently in Madrid. In 1940 theworld premiere took place in Barcelona of the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orches-tra, a definitive example of his musical personality and a work which would bring himworld-wide fame. From that moment on Rodrigo was engaged in numerous artisticactivities, both creative and academic, the following positions being of particular signifi-cance: Professor of the History of Music at the Complutense University of Madrid, Head ofMusic Broadcasts for Spanish Radio, music critic for several newspapers, and Head of theArtistic Section of the Spanish National Organization for the Blind (ONCE). He was also

invited to undertake tours as lecturer and pianist throughout Spain and the rest of Europe,Latin America, the United States, lsrael and Japan. Accompanied by his wife Victoria hefrequently attended competitions and festivals dedicated to his music throughout theworld. The music of Joaquín Rodrigo is a homage to the rich and varied cultures of Spain. Noother Spanish composer has drawn on so many different aspects of his country's spirit assources of inspiration, from the history of Roman Spain to the work of contemporary poets.His music is refined, luminous, fundamentally optimistic, with a particular predominance ofmelody, and with original harmonies. His first works reveal the influence of composers of

his time such as Ravel and Stravinsky, but the personal voice is quickly heard which would


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go on to create a notable chapter in the cultural history of Spain in the 20th century, wherethe originality of Rodrigo’s musical inspiration goes hand in hand with a devotion to thefundamental values of his tradition. Joaquín Rodrigo’s numerous and varied compositions include eleven concertos forvarious instruments, more than sixty songs, choral and instrumental works, and music forthe theatre and the cinema. A number of distinguished soloists commissioned works fromhim, among them Gaspar Cassadó, Andrés Segovia, Nicanor Zabaleta, James Galway, JulianLloyd Webber and the Romero guitar quartet. His numerous writings on music reveal aprofound understanding of his art and include subjects as varied as sixteenth centurypolyphony, the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, and the art of the conductor.

Throughout his life Joaquín Rodrigo was frequently honoured by governments, univer-sities, academies and other civil and musical organizations in many different countries. In1978 he was elected Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts ofBelgium, taking the seat held by Benjamin Britten.Among the numerous distinctions, reflecting the special position occupied by thecomposer in his country’s cultural history, are amongst the most significant: the NationalMusic Prize (twice), Doctor honoris causa of several universities, Director of the SanFernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts de, In 1991, to celebrate his 90th birthday, concertsof his music were given throughout the world, and Joaquín Rodrigo was raised to the

nobility by H M Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, with the title ‘Marqués de los jardines deAranjuez’. In 1996 the composer was honoured with Spain’s greatest distinction, the Princeof Asturias Prize, awarded to a composer for the first time. The citation notes that Rodrigo’s name had joined those of Falla, Granados and Albénizamong the classics of Spanish music, and drew particular attention to Rodrigo’s definitiveachievement of having given dignity and universality to the Spanish guitar as a concertinstrument. Joaquín Rodrigo died at his home in Madrid on the 6 July 1999, surrounded by hisfamily.

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Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo Foundation The Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo Foundation, established in 1999, following the decease ofthe composer, has launched a series of projects, starting with the celebration of Rodrigo’sCentenary year in 2001.

It is the custodian of the vast Rodrigo Archive and facilitates access to the historicaldocumentary and audiovisual material preserved. The Rodrigo home in Madrid, intact as amuseum just as it was during their lifetime, is an integral part of the Archive.

Making use of its valuable legacy, the Foundation carries out diverse cultural activitiesto promote the figure and music of the venerated composer worldwide that includes

setting up exhibitions, offering prizes in different international competitions, concerts,conferences, publications, recordings, theater plays and audiovisuals,

The Foundation has a deep commitment to bringing the image of Joaquín Rodrigocloser to children and young people, with numerous initiatives at grade school and highschool level, as well as music schools and universities . The combined efforts of the foundation and the publishing house have obtainedmagnificent results in their task of furthering the legacy of Joaquín Rodrigo and his wifeVictoria, and constitute a unique management experience in the world of culture.

All informationhttp://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php/en/archivo-menu-principal



Cecilia Rodrigo

Marquesa de los jardines de Aranjuez

The only child of Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo, dedicated to classical ballet from childhood,directed a ballet school from 1967 to 1987 in Brussels, where she lived following hermarriage to Agustín León Ara, renowned violinist and Professor at the Royal Conservatoireof Music in Brussels, With the principal aim of ensuring the preservation and dissemination of her father’smusic throughout the world, Cecilia, founded the publishing house of Ediciones JoaquínRodrigo in 1989, receiving in 1999 and again in 2006 the prize for best publisher of classicalmusic awarded by the Spanish Authors Society and the Spanish Society of Artists andPerformers, and presides The Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo Foundation, established in1999. The responsability for both organizations rests on the composer’s immediate family,headed by Cecilia Rodrigo.


BIOGRAPHIES Guest Artists



AGUSTIN LEÓN ARA

Agustin León Ara was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, where he beganstudying music with his parents at the Conservatory in that city. Later he studied at theRoyal College of Music of London with Albert Sammons, Cecil Aronowitz and Alan Loveday,and in Brussels with André Gertler and Louis Poulet. Prize winner in the International Contests of Darmstadt (Contemporary Music), HenriWieniawski, Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, León Ara began a brilliant international career asa violin soloist in collaboration with prestigious orchestras and distinguished conductors in

Europe, South America, the United States and Japan. ) Many outstanding contemporarycomposers have dedicated works to him, such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Luis de Pablo, GrazynaBacewicz, Tomás Marco, and Albert Amargós.

As professor of violin, Agustin León Ara has made an outstanding contribution to thetraining of musicians in Spain and abroad. He has been teaching the violin at the RoyalConservatory of Music in Brussels for 33 years, the Conservatory of Barcelona and theESMUC, the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth of Belgium, the Joven Orquesta Nacional ofSpain and the Conservatory of the Balearic Islands.

Crowning his brilliant and versatile career as Maestro and international soloist, he

frequently performs chamber music (duo, string quartets). He also founded the JoaquinRodrigo Chamber Orchestra, serving as concertmaster and conductor At the present, he is Director of the Summer Course dedicated to Spanish music"Música en Compostela" and is continually invited to give Master Classes. He also servesregularly as jury member in prestigious international music competitions, such as the PabloSarasate Competition, the Wieniawski Competition in Poznan and the George Enescu ViolinCompetition. León Ara has made various recordings for DECCA, EMI, ARIOLA, CPO, PHONIC andPHILIPS, including the complete works for violin and piano of Joaquín Rodrigo, Conciertode Estío with the London Symphony Orchestra, Cançoneta with the Academy of St. Martins

in the Fields. With the Joaquín Rodrigo Orchestra he recorded all-Rodrigo programs for EMIand for JVC (Japan). In 2003, together with the pianist Albert Attenelle, he recorded aninteresting program of sonatas by Spanish composers such as Pablo Casals and GasparCassadó. Among the many important honours awarded to Agustin León Ara are the Medal ofthe Eugene Isaye Foundation, Brussels, Full Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy ofFine Arts, Madrid, Corresponding Member of the San Miguel Academy of Fine Arts, Tenerife,Gold Medal of the Island of Tenerife, and the Larios Music Performance Prize for his contri-bution to promoting Spanish music worldwide, and his great dedication to teaching,

having founded his own personal school of the violin.


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Odair Assad

For almost fifty years Brazilian guitarist Odair Assad has been performing concerts with hisbrother Sergio, forming an exceptional guitar duo. In 1998, Odair began to record alone. Itis of little surprise that his sublime playing has been acclaimed at every turn. The reviewer,Colin Cooper said this about Malcolm Arnold’s short Serenade for guitar and stringsrecorded with Leo Brouwer conducting the Orquesta de Cordoba (GHA Records): “OdairAssad reveals himself to be a soloist of awesome talents, which is no less than observationhas always suggested.” One year later the same reviewer wrote about the album Fuga y

misterio : ”Odair Assad has one of the most fluent left hands in a guitarist, seeminglyattached to the fingerboard, it performs its function without obvious effort and to themaximum musical effect. This CD gives him the chance to shine in solo splendour.” Thomas Humphrey, who died suddenly in 2008, was one of the great luthiers of ourtime, whose innovative guitars are still much in demand. Humphrey, who had made theAssad brothers' guitars for many years, had encouraged Odair to perform solo all along.Odair was inspired to honour his friend and played a concert in New York within months of

Thomas' death and dedicating the concert to him as the most sincere homage of an artistto the loving memory of his best friend.

The brilliant Cuban composer Leo Brouwer wrote the “Sonata del caminante” for OdairAssad at that time, followed quickly by Egberto Gismonti who dedicated to him a specialversion of “Memória e fado.” Sergio Assad then composed “Brevidades” and a program ofnew and extraordinary repertoire had thus been created that Odair was able to premiereand record. Leo Brouwer said of his new work that it contained “impossible challenges forany guitar virtuoso, but common hurdles for Odair.” In the spring of 2010, his first solorecording “El caminante” was released on the GHA label. Odair’s first North Americanconcert tour began in February 2011 and were received ecstatically by the guitar aficiona-dos and other audiences too. Though typically the silent one in the duo, Odair's subtle witon stage has revealed itself as an added bonus, however reluctant he may to share his

thoughts on the music at hand. Odair continues to enjoy playing with his brother Sergio, who has been nominated fortwo more Latin Grammy’s for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2010. They tookto the road with Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott in April 2012 and will again in 2016. Thebrothers’ album “Dances from the New World” recorded with Paquito D’Rivera was releasedlate 2013 on the GHA label. “Call it what you will – jazz, world, Latin, Cuban, African – thismusic is none and all at the same time, and it's excellent” says Kirk Albrecht from Minor 7th,meanwhile Tim Panting from Classical Guitar notes the “constant reiteration of (the Assads)outstanding musicianship, pushing the realms of the guitar up and beyond mere mortal

expectations.”





Winter 2015 includes a North American tour with their dear friend Brazilian guitaristRomero Lubambo in a program called “Samba Exótico”. In 2015 Sergio & Odair celebratethe 50th Anniversary of their partnership with a new record, which pays tribute to Brazilianguitar and features the greatest composers from their homeland such as Baden Powell,Radamés Gnattali, João Pernambuco and Egberto Gismonti. They will then perform thisrepertoire around the world as part of this remarkable milestone.


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Marco Socias

Born in Málaga (Spain) into a family of pianists, Marco Socías received his musical education inthis city, and afterwards in many masterclasses and at the Musikhochschule Cologne(Germany). Among the most significant personalities for his development are Carmen Gallardo,Antonio Company, José Tomás, José Miguel Moreno, Hubert Käppel and David Russell. He became at the age of 21 the youngest guitar professor in Spain, and has beenawarded in some of the most prestigious international competitions, as the “Infanta

Cristina” (Fundación Guerrero, Madrid) where he got the first prize, “Le Printemps de laGuitare” (Belgium) and Concorso Internazionale di Gargnano (Italy). Marco Socías is regularly invited to renowned International Guitar Festivals and, besideshis intense activity as a soloist around practically whole Europe, Near East, Japan, Korea,South America and USA, he performs very frequently in chamber groups and as soloist withorchestra. He has performed in important concert halls as Concertgebouw (Amsterdam),Konzerthaus (Vienna), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Philharmonie (Berlin) and Alte Oper (Frankfurt), and has played as a soloist with orches-tras as the Radio Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orquesta Ciudad deGranada, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta de Cadaqués and Orquesta Nacional de

Cuba. Among the conductors he has performed with, are to be mentioned Sir NevilleMarriner, Josep Pons, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Odón Alonso and Leo Brouwer.

Until now he has recorded eight Compact Discs: Giuliani’s guitar concerto Op.30,“Concerto Meditarraneo” for two guitars and orchestra by Carlo Domeniconi -together withthe composer-, a CD with Catalan music (Pujol, Llobet, Mompou), a selection of pieces byJoaquín Rodrigo, the “Álbum de Colien” (contemporary Spanish and Portuguese music),and Spanish songs (Falla, Lorca and Gerhard) with soprano Juanita Lascarro. The mostrecent ones are solo guitar works by Joaquín Rodrigo for the label EMI, and the “Conciertode Aranjuez” and “Fantasía para un Gentilhombre” for Harmonia Mundi, with the Orquesta

Ciudad de Granada conducted by Josep Pons.





Javier Suárez-Pajares

Javier Suárez-Pajares is Professor at the Department of music science of UniversidadComplutense in Madrid. He is also President of the Sociedad Española de la Guitarra andCo- Director of the magazine Roseta. His publications include a monograph on the guitaristJulián Arcas (1832-1882), Una biografía documental (2003) and A.T.Huerta. Life and Works

(2006) he edited the critical editions La canción con acompañamiento de guitarra en el

siglo XIX (1995) and the Antología de Guitarra. I. the concierto Piezas (1788-1850) (2008). This year the second part will appear with compositions composed between 1850 and

1900. He also published a lot on Joaquin Rodrigo: Joaquín Rodrigo y la música española delos años cuarenta (2005), Joaquín Rodrigo y Federico Sopeña en la música española de los

años cincuenta, (2008) and is editor of several volumes dedicated to Manuel de FallaManuel de Falla. La imagen de un músico (1995) and to Joaquín Rodrigo. Imágenes de una

vida plena (2001).




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Antigoni Goni

Universally praised for her profound artistic sensitivity, her exquisite sound and for herunmatched palette of colors and dynamics, the Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni is internation-ally acclaimed as a true ambassador of the guitar and a sought-after pedagogue.

In 1995 Antigoni Goni added to an already long list of competition prizes the first prizeof the Guitar Foundation of America Competition, thus becoming the first Greek (and, topresent, only) to ever win it. Since then Antigoni Goni performed extensively in Europe, Russia, North and South

America and the Far East, both as a recitalist and soloist in concert halls such as the

Bart Bouckaert

Bart Bouckaert studeerde aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel waar hij Eerste Prijzenbehaalde voor geschreven harmonie, contrapunt, fuga, muziekgeschiedenis en HogereDiploma's voor kamermuziek en slagwerk. Hij werd ook 'Meester in de orkestdirectie'. Aande Vrije Universiteit Brussel behaalde hij een doctoraat in de kunsten. Zijn voornaamsteleraars orkestdirectie waren Rob Casteels, Lukas Vis (Conservatorium Brussel), Peter Eötvös(Eötvös-instituut), Mickail Kukuschkin (Peter the Great Academie, Sint-Petersburg), Arturo

Tamayo (Universiteit Alcala de Henares) en Peter Gülke.In 1989 behaalde hij met het OXO-percussietrio de tweede prijs op het Orpheus

concours te Antwerpen. In oktober 2000 werd Bart Bouckaert tweede finalist van de'Settimo Concorso per Giovani Direttori d' Orchestra', een wedstrijd voor jonge operadi-rigenten te Spoleto in Italië. Bart Bouckaert dirigeerde verschillende orkesten en ensembles in binnen- en buiten-land, o.a. het ASKO-ensemble, het Prometheus ensemble, Het Collectief, het Orkest van deOpera van Spoleto (Italië), het Kamerorkest van De Munt, l'Orchestre Symphonique du Valde Sambre, les Etoiles du Paradou, de Ensembles hedendaagse muziek van het KoninklijkConservatorium Brussel, het Nationaal Orkest van Vilnius (Litouwen), het Nationaal orkest

van België in werk van Mozart, Debussy, Holliger, Kurtag, Boulez, Bartok, Prokofiev,Boesmans, Defoort, Swinnen, Van Hecke, Wissels en vele anderen. Naar aanleiding van deopening van het vernieuwde MuziekInstrumentenMuseum in 1999 dirigeerde hij decreatie van enkele verloren gewaande orkestraties van Franz Liszt. Op dit ogenblik is Bart Bouckaert docent hedendaagse muziek en orkestdirectie aanhet Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.

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Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Covent Garden and the Wigmore Hall in London,Gasteig Hall in Munich, the Athens Megaron and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Acropolis(Athens) as well as the Philharmonic and the Cappella Sale in St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi

Theater in Moscow.

Across the Atlantic her US engagements bring Ms. Goni every year to concert halls suchas the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard Theater in New York

City, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Benaroya Hall in Seattle and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Antigoni Goni is a British council, Onassis Foundation and Royal Academy scholar.Julian Bream himself personally chose her as the 1990 winner of the prestigious JulianBream prize which she received from the hands of Lady Diana in a ceremony held inMarylebone Parish Church. Having studied with iconic masters such as Evangelos Assimakopoulos, John Mills,Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin and Oscar Ghiglia, she brings her internationally acclaimedexpertise to universities and music academies around the world through regular seminarsand master classes and she is regularly invited to judge the most prestigious international

guitar competitions in Europe and the United States. She is the founder of the Guitar Department at the Pre-College Division of JuilliardSchool of Music of New York where she also taught for 10 years. She also taught for tenyears as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awardedher with the honorary title of Associate Professor (ARAM). Since 2005 Antigoni Goni is Professor of Guitar at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels(Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) and a member of its Artistic Committee. In April 2015, the Royal Conservatory named her “Professor of the year” making her theyoungest professor ever presented with the “Madame de la Hault” prize, awarded by the

Brussels Royal Conservatory’s “Patrimonium”. In 2007 she founded and started directing the Volterra Project, Summer Guitar Institute,an innovative Classical Guitar workshop that every summer gathers in Tuscany (Italy)international students and professionals of the highest caliber for 10 days of intense studyand inspired performances. As a NAXOS and KOCH recording artist, her highly successful recordings have beenpraised for being "expressively poetic and technically exciting" and have been receivedwith great enthusiasm by the international musical community. At least a dozen of thepieces she has recorded, have been included in Enrique Robichaud’s classical guitar Cd

guide: Guitar’s TOP 100 Best.




Composers such as Augusta Read Thomas, Sergio Assad, Stanley Silverman, ErnestoCordero, Tulio Peramo, Calliope Tsoupaki, John Magnussen, Atanas Ourkouzounov, andDusan Bogdanovic have composed and dedicated works to her. In early 2016, the British record label Timespan recordings will release her new soloalbum: Hymn to the Muse, a recording of works inspired by the Greek culture and heritage,composed and dedicated to her. Antigoni Goni performs and records exclusively on Galli Genius Strings She plays a 1999 José Romanillos and a 2013 Andrea Tacchi Guitar.

Lena Lootens

Lena Lootens is a Dutch soprano.[1][2] She has performed in Claudio Monteverdi'sL'Incoronazione di Poppea,[3] and with the Concerto Vocale,[4] amongst many others. On23 June 1988 she performed two works by C. P. E. Bach, his Magnificat and the oratorio Die

Israeliten in der Wüste, with soloists Nancy Argenta, Mechthild Georg, Howard Crook andStephen Roberts under Frieder Bernius in the first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival inEberbach Abbey.

Eric Robberecht

In 1983 Eric Robberecht was appointed as soloist in the symphonic orchestra of the Royalopera De Munt. This was the beginning of a long exploratory expedition through the world

of chamber music: throughout Europe and beyond he appears on many stages withdiverse ensembles, from stringsextet to pianotrio.

Curious about contemporary music, Eric Robberecht joined ensembles as De NieuweMuziekgroep, Musique Nouvelles and the Atelier Instrumental d'Expression Contempo-raine (FR). He works a lot with the ensemble Prometheus and in duo with pianist Anne Op DeBeeck. He also holds the first violin in the Ensor String Quartet.

Eric Robberecht combines his musical activities with a teaching position as professorchamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels.

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Inge Spinette

Inge Spinette has been rehearsal pianist at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie since 1992, firstunder Antonio Pappano, and since 2003 under Kazushi Ono.This has given her the oppor-tunity to work with singers of international reputation and to play at concerts, notablyduring the Rencontres Musicales.

She is also in charge of lessons in melody accompaniment at the Flemish RoyalConservatory of Brussels, where she obtained her superior Diploma of piano. She under-went a specialisation at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, essentially in

melody and opera accompaniment. In parallel, she followed masterclasses with GrahamJohnson, Martin Isepp, Dalton Baldwin, Roger Vignoles and Helmut Deutsch.

She herself accompanied masterclasses of Lucienne Van Deyck, Vera Rosza, GraceBumbry, Tom Krause, Andreas Scholl, Raina Kabaivanska, Suzanne Eken, Sarah Walker, SirDonald McIntyre, Gérard Souzay, Stuart Burrows and Udo Reinemann. Inge Spinetteregularly plays with singers and in chamber music concerts, in Belgium and abroad. She sbeen heard at the Flanders Festival, at the Festival de Wallonie, at deSingel, NovemberMusic, transit, Flagey and Klara, for the RTBF and also on foreign radios. She also collaborated on the Mozart/concertaria s production of Rosas, a dance

company, for the pianoforte parts. Her discography includes several recordings of four-hand piano works of Mozart (on aWalter pianoforte), of Shubert (on a Graft pianoforte), of Debussy (on a Erard), of Brahms (ona Bösendorfer), of Kurtág and of Goeyvaerts, as well as Sonata for two Pianos and Percus-sion of Bartók with pianist Jan Michiels (in pianoduo YIN-YANG). Her close collaborationwith baritone Jan Vandercrabben was rewarded by a Grand Prix du Disque Lyrique 2001 inrecognition of their recording of melodies by Debussy, Fauré and Duparc. A CD withGoethe Lieder by Hugo Wolf with tenor Yves Saelens was published at Eufoda in 2004,followed this year by a CD of melodies by Gabriel Fauré with baritone Jan Vandercrabben.In June 2005, she had the honour of accompanying José van Dam during a concert at la

Monnaie.In 2006 a second CD with Jan Vandercrabben appeared with Fuga Libera andrecently a CD with Yves Saelens with Romances of P.Tosti. In 2008-2009 she’ll accompany aserie of recitals with the soprano Hendrickje Van Kerkhove, who is elected as “Rising Star”, allthrough Europe. (Concertgebouw-Amsterdam, Bozar-Brussels, Musikverhein-Wien, Madrid,Athens, …)




Eva Bylois was born in Zonhoven in 1992. Aged 10 she started playing the flute at the“Stedelijk Conservatorium voor Muziek, Dans en Woord Hasselt”.

Later she continued her musical education at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the

flute class of Frank Hendrickx. In 2015 she obtained her Master diploma with great distinc-

tion. Eva participated in numerous competitions. Among the awards she received are a first

prize at the Dexia Classics 2010 and the second prize at the Benelux Flute Competition

2010.

This year she was awarded another second prize at the same competition, but in

master’s category. Finally she became third laureate at the prestigious Forte Limburg

competition which offers young musicians the opportunity to further develop theirmusical careers. Eva also took part in multiple masterclasses with eminent flutists including

Emmanuel Pahud, William Bennett, Anne-Catherine Heinzmann, Eckart Haupt, Aldo

Baerten, Antonin Wiersbinski, Hans-Georg Smeisser, Gaby Pas-van Riet, Wally Hase,

Ulf-Dieter Schaaff...

She was invited to participate in a number of projects in the orchestra of the Théâtre

Royale de la Monnaie and other professional orchestras such as Prima la Musica.

Frauke Elsen (1988) got her first musical education at the age of 5. She was enthusiastic

from the very beginning. At the age of 9, she started with oboe lessons, but this was not

enough for her. Soon she also started with piano, viola and singing, and played in a lot of

youth orchestras. In 2003, Frauke won the Vlamo national Belgian competition for young

soloists. In 2006, she won two first prizes in the Dexia Classics contest: oboe and chamber

music (oboe trio).

In 2006, Frauke went to study with Eric Speller at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et

de Pédagogie (IMEP - Namur). She took a lot of masterclasses abroad, with Stefan Schilli,

François Leleux, Ingo Goritzki, Washington Barella, Emanuel Abbühl, Christian Wetzel,Jean-Louis Capezzali … In 2010-2011 she was oboe solo in the Antwerp Orchestral

Academy (Jaap van Zweden – Philippe Herreweghe).

In 2011, Frauke graduated from the IMEP summa cum laude. In april 2011, she won the

first prize at the national selections of the Lions European Musical Competition, so she

represented Belgium on the international contest of the Lions Europaforum in Maastricht.

She got the second prize! In 2012, she got another second prize in the Belgian competition

New Tenuto, where she performed the oboe concerto of Mozart with the Orkest der Lage

Landen.

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Frauke continued her studies at Codarts Rotterdam with Maarten Dekkers and AislingCasey. She joined the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), conducted by Vladimir

Ashkenazy, and the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Frauke performed a lot of solo concertos with orchestra: Mozart, Vaughan-Williams,

Ferrer Ferran, Lebrun, and she recreated after more than 100 years the forgotten oboe

concerto by Clémence de Grandval. Currently, she is studying at the Royal Conservatory of

Brussels with Karel Schoofs. She is solo oboist of ‘Frascati Symphonic’ and often joins other

orchestras in Belgium and abroad.

Luca Isolani. He first met his instrument at the age of ten when his mother gave his

father a guitar as a Christmas present. His first souvenir is about his father singing a

traditional neapolitan song, a song about love and passion: the guitar seemed not only to

accompany but also to interact with the lyrics by underlining many passages with funny

musical moments, creating a lightness even in dramatic and melancholic moments. From

that moment his desire was to recreate that same impression.

He attended the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Majella from 2002 to 2011, graduating cum

laude under the guidance of Maurizio Villa. During his studies he travelledbetween musicaland academic activities, obtaining a degree in International Relations and Diplomacy at the

University of Naples L'Orientale and a masters degree in music with High Distinction at the

Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels with Antigoni Goni.

As a musician he has performed in numerous cultural events organized by public and

private institutions both in Europe and abroad such as the European Music Festival, Naples

(Italy); EGMYO, Logroño (Spain) and Split (Croatia); Italian Community Center Festival,

Milwaukee (USA) and Bozart, Brussels, (Belgium).

In addition he often performs salon concerts which he very much enjoys for the closer

connection with the audience. He took part in numerous master classes and courses withprofessors and world-renowned musicians such as Sergio Assad, Sharon Isbin, Konrad

Ragossnig, Roland Dyens, Margarita Escarpa, Melinda Toth.

Currently living in Brussels, he has the opportunity to play music with musicians from

all over the world, searching continuously for the common elements and expressing them

on his guitar.

Born in Naples, a city which “produced an avalanche of music through the centuries”,

irony and beauty emerge from his story into the music he shares with audiences, as he

explores different musical influences and blends these in his recordings and performances.





Jonathan Kanter (1993) started playing guitar at age five. During his youth he also

played the violin. After studying with Waldemar Ong Alok and Dimitri van Halderen he

became a student of Izhar Elias in 2006. Since 2011 he is a student in the Royal Conserva-

tory of Brussels where he is studying with Antigoni Goni. Noam is the winner of numerous

of prizes, most notably the third prize at the Guitar Foundation of America's Youth Compe-

tition in 2012. And a third prize in the Alirio Diaz competition in Rome. In 2014 he studied

in the Szymanowski Academy in Katowice, Poland with Marcin Dylla. He has followed

masterclasses with guitarists such as Carlo Marchione, Enno Voorhorst, Margarita Escarpa,

Ricardo Gallen, Marco Smaili, Timo Korhonen and Johannes Moller. He has attended GuitarFestivals in The USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Noam is an avid

teacher, having had three teaching positions in Belgium and over 40 students.

Esther Kouwenhoven (1991) started making music at the age of six, when she joined a

childrens choir. In high school she was in the school choir. During her studies Musicology

at the University of Utrecht (NL), Esther performed several requiems, including Fauré's,

Cherubini's and Mozart's, with the choir of her study society. As a member of the Bach

Ensemble Amsterdam and the Brussels Chamber Choir, she sang several soloparts. SinceSeptember 2013, Esther has been studying classical singing with Lena Lootens at the Royal

Conservatory of Brussels. Her studies are financially supported by the VandenEnde Founda-

tion. In March 2015, Esther was a soloist in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana by

the conservatory choir under the direction of David De Geest. Esther has been engaged to

sing as a soloist in the Matthew Passion and Hohe Messe by Bach in the spring of 2016, and

during the 2015-2016 season, she will sing in the choir of La Monnaie operahouse in

Brussels. Esther took part in masterclasses by Stefano Patarino and Ubaldo Fabbri.

Mátyás Mézes was born in 1990, in Roznava (Slovakia) to a Hungarian family. He began

to study violin at the age of 6, and was prize winner of several territorial violin competitions

in Slovakia. At the age of 14, he continues studying in Veszprém, in Hungary, the birthplace

of the legendary violinist Leopold Auer under the guidance of Péter Kováts.

From September in 2010, he was accepted to the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, to the

class of Eszter Perényi. He’s finishing Master studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels

with Professor Katalin Sebestyén. Currently Erasmus student in Luzern (Switzerland) with

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He was attending to masterclasses in Schiermonnikoog, Apeldoorn (Netherlands),

Schaffhausen, Blonay, Biel (Switzerland) and Tata (Hungary) with professors Philippe Graffin,

Pavel Vernikov, György Pauk, Stephan Picard, Gyula Stuller, Gordan Nikolic, Nora Chastain,

Wen Sinn-Yang.

This summer he was participating at Aurora festival (Sweden) and Auer festival

(Hungary) and could work and play with famous artists as, Kurt Masur, Misha Maisky, Terje

Tonnessen, Péter Csaba, Kristóf Baráti.

He studied chamber music with professors Dirk Vermeulen, Viviane Spanoghe, Thomas

Dieltjens, Gábor Csalog. With his string quartet they participated at Mlada Praha festival inPrague, Charles Hennen Competition in the Netherlands, Weiner Leó Competition in

Budapest, where they received special prize. With his chamber music partner, Rémy

Dechambre (piano), they won the chamber music prize ’’Maria Errera’’ in Royal Conservatory

of Brussels.

He was concertmaster of Auer Youth Symphony Orchestra from 2010 till 2013. In

09/2014 concertmaster of international BruMaTi Youth Symphony orchestra, under the

leading of Maestro Etienne Siebens, and had concerts in famous concert halls as Royal

Conservatory of Brussels and Muziekgebouw Eindhoven.

As hobby he’s playing Hungarian folk music with his band in Brussels.

Tim Mulleman (1993, Belgium) started playing the piano at the age of 11 under the

patronage of conductor Hans Casteleyn. After finishing his studies classical piano, jazz and

accompaniment with highest distinctions at the provincial academy, he was accepted to

the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with pianists Jan Michiels and Hans Ryckelynck. He also

had lessons/masterclasses with Irene Russo, Herbert Schuch, Amy Lin, Neal Peres da Costa,

Jan Vermeulen, Alan Weiss, Erik Vermeulen, Niko Deman. In 2014 Tim obtained his bachelor

degree with great distinction. Furthermore, he successfully studied composition with Jan

van Landeghem for a brief period, besides jazz theory and music theory and writing.

Among other regular concerts, he played on a radio broadcast at the Cinématek

Brussels, performed solo and in piano duo at the starting day of Het Festival van Vlaanderen

2013, at the International Bartók Symposium in Brussels, as a chambrist at the Euroclassical

project 2014 as well as 2015.





Eurydice Novak is a French mezzo-soprano who was born in Paris from Greek ansSlovenian parents. She started at an early age her musical studies with the recorder. After

she gets her Bachelor in Paris parallely to a Bachelor of Music and Musicology from Univer-

sité Paris-Sorbonne she obtains a Master degree in the class of Bart Coen in Koninklijk

Conservatorium Brussel. She was also a teacher of recorder and chamber music in the

Conservatoire Jean-Philippe Rameau in Paris (6th district) from 2008 to 2012.

In the meantime she discovers opera and vocal art as she is passionated from a long

time about singing and acting. She studies with soprano Chrsitine Schweizer in Paris and

decides to further her studies in the class of Lena Lootens in Koninklijk Conservatorium

Brussel. She will graduate from a Master degree in 2016.Eurydice followed the masterclasses and precious advices of Daniel Ottevare, Ubaldo

Fabbri, Stefano Pattarino, Paola Larini for opera, Inge Spinette, Hélène Luyten and Henri

Farge for lieder and french artsong and she had the opportunity to work with stage

directors such as Maja Jantar and Benoït Deleersnyder.

As a soloist she recently performed in the Opera of Ghent and La Monnaie (Belgium), in

the Festival of Saint-Nazaire (France) for « Ein Stelldichein » by Karl Weigl, in the Festival of

Early Music of Radom (Poland), in the Festival of Lanvellec (France) ; she sang the solo

mezzo-soprano part in the Magnificat by J.S Bach in the Eglise des Minimes in Brussels

under the baton of Paul Dombrecht, in Brussels' Parliament and in the Museum of Musicalinstruments.

Maarten Vandenbemden (1994) kreeg op vierjarige leeftijd zijn eerste gitaarlessen van

zijn vader, en studeerde onder zijn leiding met grootste onderscheiding af aan de

Academie voor Podiumkunsten van Overijse, waar hij tevens piano, ensemble, muziekge-

schiedenis en harmonieleer volgde. Vervolgens leidde de weg naar het Koninklijk

Conservatorium van Brussel waar hij de richtingen Gitaar en Muziekschriftuur combineert.

Maarten is eerste laureaat gitaar van de wedstrijd Dexia Classics 2011, en in de zomer van

2013 ontving hij de ‘Special prize for best interpretation’ uit handen van Štěpán Rak op het

internationaal gitaarconcours te Kutná Hora, Tsjechië. In november 2013 mocht hij aantre-

den als solist in het Concierto de Aranjuez van Joaquin Rodrigo met orkest SymphoniaAS-

SAI onder leiding van Wouter Lenaerts. Datzelfde jaar behaalde hij het bachelordiploma

gitaar aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium te Brussel in de klas van Antigoni Goni met

grootste onderscheiding, en tevens de bachelor in muziekschriftuur met grote onderschei-

ding. Hij volgde reeds masterclasses bij onder meer Konrad Ragossnig, Yves Storms, Ian

Watt, Sharon Isbin en Sergio Assad.




Andrew Wygant has been playing guitar since he was 9 years old. As a native of Dayton,

OH (USA) he grew up playing a variety of musical styles and decided to make music his

focused passion in his teenage years. During this period he studied with a variety of teachers

and continued to grow in his passion for music. He was winner of the Andrés SegoviaScholarship, a merit-based scholarship to study at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)

at the University of Cincinnati. Here he acquired his bachelor’s degree in guitar performance.

He studied under Professor Clare Callahan, a former student of Andrés Segovia.

During his summers Andrew studied at a variety of summer institutes including the

Tennessee State University Guitar Seminar, and the Iserlohn Guitar Symposium. He was also

a scholarship winner to the Aspen Music Festival and School where he studied for two

summers with Sharon Isbin, chair of the classical guitar department at the Juilliard School

in New York City.

One of the most rewarding summer experiences came at Antigoni Goni’s own VolterraProject in Italy. It was here that he was first attracted to Ms. Goni’s inspiring artistry and

teaching style. While currently acquiring his master’s degree in Brussels, Andrew has

developed a passion for arranging music, especially that of the piano. After the academic

year of 2015-16 Andrew will have completed his master’s degree with Ms. Goni and plans

to continue further his passion for performing both solo and chamber music as well as

arranging music and teaching. He has a deep appreciation for all art forms and desires to

communicate this passion to audiences and students alike.

Wytske Holtrop (1994) plays the cello since she was six years old. From the age of 12 she

studied in the Young Talentclass at the Prins Claus Conservatory (Groningen) and the ArtEZ

Conservatory (Zwolle). In september 2012 she started at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels,

where she studies with Jeroen Reuling.

She had masterclasses with Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Richard Aaron, Michel

Strauss, Pieter Wispelwey and Gavriel Lipkind. In 2008 she participated in the Peter de Grote

Festival in Groningen and in 2011 in the International Music Course in Łańcut (Poland). In

2012 and 2014 she followed the masterclasses of Gary Hoffman at the Académie Ravel in

Saint Jean de Luz (France). In 2013, 2014 and 2015 she was a participant of the International

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Zijn muzikale zoektocht voerde hem in 2015 naar Napels, waar hij bij maestro MaurizioVilla studeerde. Momenteel rondt Maarten zijn master af in Brussel. Daarnaast speelt hij

zowel solo als concerten in diverse bezettingen, met bijzondere focus op het Duo Adentro

dat hij samen met pianiste Saskia Van Herzeele vormt.



Chambermusic Festival in Schiermonnikoog, where she gave also concerts during this

festival.

Wytske was principal cellist in the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Haydn Youth

String Orchestra and the Young Eems-Dollard Philharmony. Beside that she was cellist in

the stringquartet Farfalle. As a soloist she played several times with the Frisian Youth

Orchestra. In januari 2014 she was a participant of the National Youth Orchestra, where she

played also last januari as co-principal.

She won several prices at the Foundation Young Musictalent of the Netherlands (2007

and 2011) and the Prinses Christina Concours (2010). With stringquartet Farfalle she won

the chambermusic competition during the International Youth Festival in Aberdeen

(Scotland) and in 2012 with the same stringquartet a 1st prize at the Prinses Christina

Concours. In 2012 she got the Prix du Musee Bonnat for the performance of the first

stringquartet of Milhaud during the Académie Ravel in Saint Jean de Luz.

Wytske plays on a cello by Tanguy Fraval, Brussels, build in 2011. She has a bow by

C.Jochen Schmidt (Dresden), loan to her by the National Music Instruments Foundation.

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