Stephane Ginsburgh 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 modern music as well as the Classical and Romantic repertoires that he often associates in his programs. His favorite composers are Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scriabine, Prokofiev, Bartók, Schönberg and Stockhausen.

He premiered many new pieces and has been awarded the Pelemans Prize by the SABAM for his implication in performing music by Belgian contemporary composers. He plays with the Ictus Ensemble under George-Elie Octors. In 1998, Stephane Ginsburgh co-founded ‘le Bureau des Arts’ with composer Renaud De Putter, an active group of artists dedicated to different types of artistic expression and creation including music, dance and literature.

In 1995, he won the Tenuto Music Competition organised by the National Radio and appeared as soloist with the BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra (Prokofiev's 3rd Concerto) and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (Brahms 2nd Concerto). During the summer of 1996, thanks to the Ronit Amir Lowenthal Scholarship, he took part in the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival (Santa Barbara, USA) where he worked with pianist Jerome Lowenthal from The Juilliard School. He also deepened his knowledge of contemporary repertoire with Claude Helffer in Paris and at the Académie Musicale de Villecroze (France). He participates regularly to the Contemporary Music Spring Festival (Ars Musica) in Brussels since 1991. During the 2002 session, he gave a program that included pieces by Wolpe, Carter, Stroppa as well as Beethoven’s Sonata op. 111 and Variations op. 120.

His two recent CD releases, Duchamp’s Erratum Musical and Morton Feldman Last Pieces received praising reviews by New York critics. As member of the le Bureau des Pianistes (1990), he recorded three CDs with music by Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Morton Feldman. His latest CD for Sub Rosa features For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman. Upcoming projects include a five CDs box fur Sub Rosa with Feldman's complete piano music.

He has performed Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes (Etudes d'exécution transcendante) with György Ligeti Etudes in several occasions and was also invited to play the complete Prokofiev piano Sonatas which he will record for label Fuga Libera.

He studies philosophy at the Free University of Brussels.

Vita

Prizes

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

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