28 Notable Alumni of Royal Conservatory of Liege

André Rieu

Born in: Netherlands
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: conductorrecord producermusic arrangeractorviolinist
Biography: André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known as the founder of the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.

César Franck

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1822-1890 (aged 68)
Occupations: teacherpianistcomposermusic educatororganist
Biography: César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.

Olivier Gourmet

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Occupations: television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
Biography: Olivier Gourmet is a Belgian actor.

Eugène Ysaÿe

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1858-1931 (aged 73)
Occupations: music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teacherconcertmaster
Biography: Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".

Fabrice Du Welz

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: actorscreenwriterfilm director
Biography: Fabrice Du Welz is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed several films including Calvaire in 2004, Vinyan in 2008 and Message from the King in 2016.

Joseph Jongen

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1873-1953 (aged 80)
Occupations: music educatorconductorcomposerpianistuniversity teacher
Biography: Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.

Hasan Cihat Örter

Born in: Turkey
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: musicianguitaristpianistcomposerclassical guitarist
Biography: Hasan Cihat Örter is a Turkish composer, progressive guitarist and arranger.

Bernard Foccroulle

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: conductoruniversity teachercomposermusicianorganist
Biography: Bernard Charles M. E. Th. Foccroulle is a Belgian organist, composer, conductor and opera director.

Sophie Karthäuser

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
Occupations: opera singerperforming artist
Biography: Sophie Karthäuser is a Belgian operatic soprano. She has performed internationally, especially in roles by Mozart such as Ilia in Idomeneo and Pamina in The Magic Flute. She is also a recitalist, performing and recording for example the complete songs by Mozart and lieder by Hugo Wolf.

Martin Pierre Marsick

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1847-1924 (aged 77)
Occupations: university teachermusic educatorcomposer
Biography: Martin Pierre Marsick, was a Belgian violinist, organist, singer, composer and teacher. Marsick was the owner of the Marsick Stradivarius.

Hubert de Blanck

Born in: Netherlands
Years: 1856-1932 (aged 76)
Enrolled in Royal Conservatory of Liege: Studied in 1865
Occupations: music educatorcomposerclassical pianist
Biography: Hubertus Christiaan "Hubert" de Blanck was a Dutch-born professor, pianist and composer who spent the better part of his life in Cuba.

Théo Ysaÿe

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1865-1918 (aged 53)
Occupations: pianistconductorcomposer
Biography: Théophile Ysaÿe was a Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium. His brother was the violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe.

César Thomson

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1857-1931 (aged 74)
Occupations: concertmastermusic educatorcomposer
Biography: César Thomson was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer.

Camille Everardi

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1825-1899 (aged 74)
Occupations: opera singermusic educator
Biography: Camille Everardi was a Belgian operatic baritone who had an active international career during the 1850s through the 1870s. He particularly excelled in the works of Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini. Several music critics of his day likened his voice to that of Antonio Tamburini. He later had a highly successful second career as a voice teacher in the Russian Empire.

Jacques Bouhy

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1848-1929 (aged 81)
Occupations: opera singer
Biography: Jacques-Joseph-André Bouhy was a Belgian baritone, most famous for being the first to sing the "Toreador Song" in the role of Escamillo in the opera Carmen.

Claude Ledoux

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: composer
Biography: Claude Ledoux is a Belgian composer, born in 1960.

Adolphe Samuel

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1824-1898 (aged 74)
Occupations: music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teachermusicologist
Biography: Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was a Belgian music critic, teacher, conductor and composer.

Ovide Musin

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1854-1929 (aged 75)
Occupations: violinistcomposerconcertmaster
Biography: Ovide Musin was a Belgian violinist and composer.

Sylvain Dupuis

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1856-1931 (aged 75)
Occupations: music educatoroboistconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
Biography: Joseph Michel Sylvain Dupuis was a Belgian conductor, composer, oboist, and music educator.

Auguste Dupont

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1827-1890 (aged 63)
Occupations: pianistteachercomposer
Biography: Auguste Dupont, full name Pierre-Auguste Dupont, was a Belgian pianist and composer.

Pierre Kolp

Born in: Germany
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: composermusicologist
Biography: Pierre Kolp is a Belgian composer and music pedagogue born in Cologne, Germany, on 23 March 1969.

Frantz Jehin-Prume

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1839-1899 (aged 60)
Occupations: violinistmusic educatorcomposer
Biography: Frantz Jehin-Prume was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. He began his career as a highly successful concert violinist in Europe. From 1865 on he lived and worked mainly in Montreal, Canada; becoming one of the most important 19th century musical figures in Quebec. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1868.

Marc Laho

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: opera singerperforming artist
Biography: Marc Laho is a Belgian lyric tenor opera singer.

Jean-Théodore Radoux

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1835-1911 (aged 76)
Occupations: composeruniversity teachermusic educatoropera composer
Biography: Jean-Théodore Radoux was a Belgian composer and bassoonist. In 1859 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Juif errant which he had composed earlier that year. His other compositions include 2 operas, an oratorio, 2 symphonic poems, an overture, several choral works and vocal art songs, and music for the church.

Gaston Dethier

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1875-1958 (aged 83)
Occupations: music educatororganistcomposer
Biography: Gaston Marie Dethier was an American organist, pianist, and composer of Belgian birth.

Manu Louis

Occupations: composersinger
Biography: Manu Louis is a Belgian musician, singer-songwriter, and composer, influenced equally by pop, jazz, 8-bit electronica, and 20th-century classical music.

Florence Austin

Born in: United States
Years: 1884-1927 (aged 43)
Occupations: violinist
Biography: Florence Austin was an American violinist.

Jean Delvoye

Born in: Belgium
Years: 1854-1938 (aged 84)
Occupations: opera singer
Biography: Jean Delvoye was a Belgian baritone, who, after working in the French provinces, enjoyed a long career in Paris, centred on the Opéra-Comique, and left some recordings representative of his repertoire.