Stephane Ginsburgh, a musician based in Brussels, has been praised for his daring and mature piano playing. He appears regularly in recitals and chamber music in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the USA. He performs Contemporary music as well as the Classical and Romantic repertoires that he often associates in his programs. After studying at the Conservatory, he worked with Claude Helffer in Paris and Jerome Lowenthal in New York. He studied philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles and is now translating into French Eric. J. Hobsbawm's Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz. The book will be published in 2010 by the Brussels editor Aden.

He dedicates much of his energy to new music and collaborates with many young composers while keeping very close ties with the Classical repertoire. He premiered many new pieces and has been awarded the Pelemans Prize in 1999 by the Belgian composers' union for his implication in performing Belgian contemporary music. His implication in concert organisation in Brussels bears a strong political meaning as he insists on the necessity for artists to engage themselves into collective action. He regularly plays with the Ictus Ensemble under George-Elie Octors. In 1998, Stephane Ginsburgh co-founded ‘le Bureau des Arts’, an active group of artists dedicated to different types of artistic expression and creation including music, dance and literature. Since 2010, he is artistic director of the CRFMW (Centre de recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie) dedicated to acoustic and electronic music.

He is in the process of recording Morton Feldman's works for solo piano (5 CDs & 1 DVD, Sub Rosa), has just recorded Vexations by Erik Satie on the composer's piano (Sub Rosa) and will bring together Prokofiev's Nine piano sonatas (2 CDs, Fuga Libera). Most recent projects include an evening around Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstücke and Kontakte with percussionist Miquel Bernat for the Ars Musica Festival and has premiered a piano piece by György Kurtág in an hommage concert to Henri Pousseur at the Festival Images sonores in Liège. More recently, he was asked by the Queen Elisabeth Competition to rehearse and record the compulsory concerto composed for the finals 2010.

Prizes

Prix Tenuto BRTN 1995
Fondation Schlumberger, Académie Musicale de Villecroze, France
Ronit Amir Lowenthal Scholarship, Music Academy of the West Summer Festival, Santa Barbara, USA
Fondation SPES, Bruxelles
Prix Pelemans 1999 for interpretation of Belgian contemporary music

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