Born in Brussels, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden began playing the piano at a very young age and entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels at the age of twelve, where he worked under the direction of Eduardo Del Pueyo until the end of his studies at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.
He was only 16 years old when he was proclaimed laureate at the 1964 Queen Elisabeth International Competition. He is one of the youngest laureates ever elected.
Martti Arvo Henrik Rousi is a Finnish cellist. He is internationally known both as a soloist and a teacher. Since 1995 Rousi holds the post of Professor of cello at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His cello class there is attracting talents from around the world. He is invited to conduct masterclasses at leading music academies on every continent.
Yves Storms told us the following:
"The way in which one says, sings or plays something can strike a sensitive chord. Only then does one realise that apparent simplicity is resonance. The vibration finds an echo. And, above all, enjoy it whenever this happens. Simplicity gives rise to trust through transparency and openness.
And ... because I love simplicity.
Born in Poland, Tomasz Tomaszewski studied at the Music Academy of Warsaw with Professeur Wronski.
Marie-Laure Coenjaerts is a multi-talented artist: she has happily explored all the performing arts.
Marie-Laure teaches opera singing at Arts2 (Former Royal Conservatory of Music of Mons in Belgium); simultaneously, she teaches singing at the LNB musical theatre school in Paris.
Marc Grauwels is undoubtedly one of the Belgian flautists most catching the limelight today. He owes this to his talent, his dynamic and generous personality but equally to his innate sense of communication.
Internationally renowned as soloïst clarinettist, Ronald Van Spaendonck is considered one of the best of his generation. His teachers were Léon Jacot, Walter Boeykens, Anthony Pay (Londres) and Karl Leister (Berlin). After 12 years in the Orchestre National de Belgique, he turned into a teacher himself.
Christian Beldi is one of the most influential musical personalities of the present, being internationally acclaimed as a piano virtuoso and subtle chamber musician as well as a teacher for both piano and chamber music.