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 translated into French Eric. J. Hobsbawm's Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz. The book is published 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. He worked closely woith composers such as Boesmans, De Putter, Fafchamps, Fiorini, Helbich, Kolp, Mernier, Ristic and Tolosa. 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. He collaborated with choreographers such as Johanne Saunier (Joji Inc.), Anne Tersa De Keersmaeker (Rosas), Claudio Bernardo (As Palavras), Barbara Mavro (Roberta DC) and minimalist artist Peter Dowsnbrough.

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 Centre Henri Pousseur dedicated to electronic music and live electronics.

He is in the process of recording Morton Feldman's works for solo piano (5 CDs & 1 DVD, Sub Rosa) and has just recorded Vexations by Erik Satie on the composer's piano (Sub Rosa). In 2009 his projects included an evening around Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstücke and Kontakte with percussionist Miquel Bernat for the Ars Musica Festival and in 2011 at Agora/Ircam Festival. He has premiered a piano piece by György Kurtág in an hommage concert to Henri Pousseur at the Festival Images sonores in Liège. In 2010 he was asked by the Queen Elisabeth Competition to rehearse and record the compulsory concerto composed for the finals.

In 2012, Stephane Ginsburgh will play pieces by Frederic Rzewski, Vykintas Baltakas, Sergueï Prokofiev, Stefan Prins, among others and premiere pieces by Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Panayiotis Kokoras, Philipp Maintz, Garth Knox and Matthew Shlomowitz.

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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