Our team Music Academy FORTE 2024:
NATALIYA CHEPURENKO (Belgium/Ukraine)
PIANO, Piano Accompaniment, Chamber Music, Piano Ensembles
Artistic Director and Founder of MUSIC ACADEMY FORTE, International competition for pianists «Merci, Maestro!». Founder, Professor of piano & chamber music at the Brussels International Music Academy.
JEAN-CLAUDE VANDEN EYNDEN (Belgium)
PIANO
Honorary Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and currently at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.
DANIEL BLUMENTHAL (Belgium)
PIANO
Professor of Piano at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Brussels, Thy Masterclass for chamber music in Denmark.
YANNICK VAN DE VELDE (Belgium)
PIANO
Professor of Piano performance at the Conservatory of Luxembourg and the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt.
TATIANA KOZLOVA (Israel)
PIANO, Piano Accompaniment, Chamber Music, Piano Ensembles
Professor of piano at the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel–Aviv. Artistic director of “Stretto international piano competition” in Tel-Aviv. Previously artistic director of Scherzo international piano competition.
YURII KOT (Ukraine)
PIANO, Piano Accompaniment, Chamber Music, Piano Ensembles
Honoured Artist of Ukraine. Professor of Piano at the National Music Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
PHILIPPE RANALLO (Belgium)
TRUMPET
Professor of trumpet at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
Soloist at the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and member of the Ictus Ensemble.
JOANIE CARLIER (Belgium)
BASSOON
Bassoon teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and professor at the Amay Academy. Principal bassoon of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège.
OLEKSIY SHADRIN (Ukraine)
CELLO
International soloist, previously artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapelle.
PIERRE FONTENELLE (Belgium)
CELLO
Teacher at the IMEP (Royal Institute for Music and Pedagogy Namur). Previously Cello-Soloist at the Opéra Royal Wallonie-Liège. Founder & artistic director of the Concerts des Dames at the Abbaye Notre-Dame du Vivier (Marche-les-Dames).
STEVEN CAEYERS (Belgium)
CELLO
Professor of Violoncello at the Kunsthumaniora in Brussels & at the Municipal Conservatory of Leuven.
SABINE CONZEN (Belgium)
VOCAL
Professor of vocal at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
VALERIY SOKOLOV (Ukraine)
VIOLIN
International soloist.
ERIK SLUYS (Belgium)
VIOLIN
Professor of violin at Kunsthumaniora Brussel. Teaches as an assistant of Philippe Graffin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Member of the contemporary music ensemble “Musiques Nouvelles”.
JING HAN (Belgium/China)
VIOLIN, Chamber Music
Teacher of violin at the Brussels International Music Academy & The Royal Conservatory of Liege. Organiser of the Kreutzer International Music Competition and International Music Workshop.
MAGDALENA PłOCIENNIK (Poland)
VIOLIN, Chamber Music
Professor of violin & Chamber Music at several Music Schools (Wrocław). Consultant of the Artistic Education Center (Warsaw). Co-founder of Lower Silesian Society of F. Chopin in Wrocław.
SERGIO AGREDA DE RIO (Belgium)
ORCHESTRA, Chamber Music, Viola
Conductor of the Sint-Jan Berchmans Youth Choir and the Berchmans Collegium Vocale. Music teacher and instrumental ensembles at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Brussels.
ENSEMBLES | CHAMBER MUSIC | ACCOMPANISTS
URSZULA MARKOWSKA,cello (Poland), OLGA ARTEMENKO,vocal (Ukraine), ÇAĞIL CANSU ŞANLIDAĞ,piano (Cyprus), MYRTO SIFAKI,piano (Greece), OKSANA STECHYSHYN,piano (Ukraine), SILVIU DUMITRACHE,piano (Romania), KHRYSTYNA KORCHYNSKA,oboe (Ukraine), Jakub Jirásek (Czech Republic)