| Arie Van
Lysebeth began playing the violin at the age of
four. He did his graduate studies at the Royal
Conservatory of Brussels, where he learned piano,
bassoon, chamber music and conducting. Laureate ex æquo
of the Prague Spring International Music Competition, he
served as solo bassoonist with the Belgian Radio
Television Orchestra. After studying conducting with
Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez, he conducted the
Flemish Orchestra of Brussels, both in Belgium and
abroad, from 1970 to 1994. As a guest conductor, he led
major orchestras in Belgium, as well as in the United
States, Argentina, Taiwan, Great Britain,
Bosnia-Herzegovinia and Italy, working with such
renowned soloists as Igor Oistrakh, José Van Dam, Murray
Perahia and Augustin Dumay. A long-time professor at the
Brussels Royal Conservatory (Flemish section), where he
served as Director from 1994 to 2003, Arie Van Lysebeth
is currently President of the jury of the Queen
Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium and
President of the Artistic Committee of the Queen
Elisabeth Music Foundation of Belgium. Since 10 years,
he is the conductor of the orchestre symphonique du
Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Recently, he conducted
the English Chamber Orchestra in a Mozart’s concert. |
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