Viviane Spanoghe

Viviane Spanoghe is a Belgian cellist and professor (professor of cello and chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels ).

Life

Spanoghe's professional career began in 1975 when she won the Axion Classics competition . She then studied in Kortrijk and at the Gent Conservatory with André Messens and continued her training with Maria Kliegel at the Folkwang Music School and until 1979 with János Starker at Indiana University Bloomington . In 1980 she won the Tenuto Competition of the Belgian Radio, after which she performed as a soloist under conductors such as B. Lawrence Foster , János Fürst , Leopold Hager and Marco Guidarini . In 1999 she was a guest at the Kronberg International Cello Festival .

Spanoghe has been working as a duo with the pianist André De Groote since the early 1980s . With this and the violinist Alexei Moshkov she forms the Aleko Trio ; she also worked as a chamber musician a. a. with Augustin Dumay , Jean-Pierre Wallez and Tatiana Samouil . In addition to classical cello literature, her repertoire also includes works by contemporary composers, some of which are dedicated to her, such as August Improelt , Franklin and Jean Gyselynck , Peter Swinnen , Jan van Landeghem , Marc Matthys , Frédéric van Rossum and Annelies van Parys , some of which she premiered and on CD grossed. Together with her sister, the violinist Jenny Spanoghe , and the pianist Marc Mattys , she interpreted songs by Frank Zappa in the Trio Cucamonga (in arrangements by Luc Brewaeys ; CD 1990).

In 2005 she was awarded the Gebroeders-Darche Prize for her services to spreading Belgian music abroad . To their students u. a. Anait Karpova .

personal data
SURNAME	Spanoghe, Viviane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century