Pierre Bartholomée




Pierre Georges Édouard Bartholomée (Brussels, 5 August 1937) is a Belgian conductor and composer.[1]



Career


He began his musical studies at the age of six with piano lessons. Later on he graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he received a piano education by André Dumortier and where he won several prizes. His education was completed with a series of Beethoven piano performance classes given by Wilhelm Kempff.[2]


Together with Henri Pousseur, he founded the Ensemble Musique Nouvelle and the Centre de Recherches et de Création Musicales de Wallonie. He has performed internationally as a pianist and a conductor.[3]



Honours




  • 1999 : created Knight Bartholomée, by king Albert II.


  • 2004 : Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.[4]


  • 2011 : President of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.

  • Officer of the Order of the Crown.

  • knight if the Ordre national du Mérite.



References



  • Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel now houses most works and manuscripts of Bartholomée, after the bankruptcy of CeBeDeM in 2015.




  1. ^ Robert Wangermée, Pierre Bartholomée. Parcours d'un musicien, Conseil de la musique de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Mardaga, Liège, 2008 978-2-87009-989-6 , 250 p. online


  2. ^ Pierre Bartholomée's Official website


  3. ^ Pierre Bartholomée's Official website


  4. ^ http://www.academieroyale.be/fr/details-690/relations/pierre-bartholomee/secorig593/

















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