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Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist....
Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist.
Jozef De Beenhouwer
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Born | () 26 March (age76) Brasschaat, Belgium |
Instrument | piano |
Musical artist
Jozef De Beenhouwer (born 26 March in Brasschaat, Belgium) is a Belgianpianist, music teacher and musicologist.
Biography
His first teacher, with whom he started at the age of five, was his paternal grandfather. Even as a child and adolescent, he became acquainted with a vast repertoire, and developed a special preference for music by Robert Schumann.
In he began studying with Lode Backx, at first privately; later, after graduating from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as a pharmacist (), at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music at Waterloo, from which he graduated in , and at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, which granted him the “Hoger Diploma”, its highest degree, summa cum laude in Another major influence on Jozef De Beenhouwer was David Kimball, with whom he took private lessons in Florence between and
As a soloist, both