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CAMILLE THOMAS & JULIEN LIBEER
Julien Libeer
Julien Libeer’s piano is his faithful companion in the expression of a love of music that has
always been nourished as much by opera and the chamber and orchestral repertory as by
the great works for keyboard.
His encounter with the eminent pedagogue Jean Fassina was followed by an equally
intense collaboration with Maria João Pires, whose advice and support still profoundly
influence his vision of things.
He has played concertos with the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National
de Belgique, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia and the New Japan
Philharmonic, among others, under the direction of such conductors as Michel Tabachnik,
Augustin Dumay, Serge Pehlevanian, JoshuaWeilerstein, EnriqueMazzola and Christopher
Warren-Green.
An admired chamber musician, he collaborates regularly with Augustin Dumay, Camille
Thomas, Frank Braley, Maria João Pires, and Lorenzo Gatto with whom he has performed
the complete Beethoven violin sonatas from the 2015/16 season onwards.
Julien Libeer studied with Daniel Blumenthal at the Brussels Conservatoire and is an
associate artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he previously trained in
chamber music under the aegis of the members of the Artemis Quartet. He has also
received guidance fromAlfred Brendel, Dmitry Bashkirov and Jura Margulis.
In 2008 he received the Juventus Prize as most promising European soloist, and he was
votedYoungMusician of theYear by the Belgianmusic critics’ association in 2010. In 2013 he
was the recipient of the Audience Prize awarded each year by Radio Klara.
A resident of Brussels, he spends most of his free time swimming, reading or watching
good-quality television series, and is actively involved in a number of social projects, all
basedonthe ideathatmusiccanbeatransformingforceforanyonewho ispreparedto listen.
www.julienlibeer.net