REFERENCES

ICONOGRAPHY (& GRAPHIC DESIGN IN SOME CASES) 

Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP, since 2022), Concertgebouw Brugge (since 2010), Silbersee Amsterdam (since 2015), Opéra national de Lorraine (since 2022), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (2019-2021), Opéra national de Paris (2006-2009 and 2014-2021), Opéra national du Rhin (2017-2021), Opéra national de Lyon (2021-2022), Les Talens lyriques (2022), November Music Den Bosch (2018-2022), Mosa Ballet School (2020-2021), Le Phénix Valenciennes (2019-2020), Cité de la Voix, Arsys Bourgogne & Rencontres musicales de Vézelay (2012-2019), Philosophie magazine (2017-2018), Ruhrtriennale (2015-2016), Faro Erfgoeddag (2015), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2009-2014),  Klarafestival (2015), KAMconcerten at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (2011-2015), Operadagen Rotterdam / O'Festival (2014), VPRO-radio4 (2011-2015), La Monnaie De Munt (2012-2013), Ensemble La Fenice (2012), Muziektheater Transparant (2013), Festival Omdernt (2013), B'Rock (2013), Zinnema (2013), Grands formats (2012), Editions Gallimard (2012-2014), Cité de la Musique in Paris (2009), Salle Pleyel in Paris (2009) 

 

VIDEO VENUES

Flagey (Brussels, Festival Musiq'3), Muziekgebouw aan't Ij Amsterdam, Vredenburg Utrecht, Schouwburg Utrecht, Wonderfeel Festival, Orgelpark Amsterdam, Schouwburg Groningen, De Doelen Rotterdam (O' Festival), Festival Pecs, Schouwburg Leuven (Festival 20-21), Brussels Conservatory KCB, De Singel Antwerpen, Opera Gent (Festival van Vlaanderen Gent), Concertgebouw Brugge 

 

EXHIBITIONS
Member of Fetart Paris (2009-2012), founding member of the Festival Circulation(s) in Paris (2010-2013), scenographer and graphic designer of the exhibition Wallonie terre d'eau by Filippo Minelli at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in 2019-2020, creator of the project EXI(S)T in Brussels in 2020, co-artistic director of the Biennale du Condroz with Emmanuel d'Autreppe and Olivier Cornil in 2021, initiator of the suspended exhibition Échappées belles with Julie Calbert in 2021-2022, curator of the fabric exhibition Brussels, dance! in 2022 in the streets of Brussels.

 

VIOLONCELLIST (until 2000)

Concerts as a soloist (with Antwerp Symphony conducted by Maxim Shostakovitch), in string quartet (Egmont Quartet, 1995-1999), piano trio, piano quintet, member of the European Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester (1998-1999), Jeune Philharmonie (1993-1995), concerts for the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, DSO Berlin, BSO Berlin etc. 

Concerts a.o. at the Musikverein in Vienna, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Bozar, Flagey & Conservatory in Brussels, Singel in Antwerp, Philharmonic Hall in Liège, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Luzern, Prague, Lisbon Gulbekian centre.

 

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL START

Higher diploma in cello with Edmond Baert at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels (CRMB, 1998). Konzertexamen at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Wolfgang Boettcher (2000, unfinished). Master 2 in Art History and Archaeology at the Free University of Brussels and at the Università degli Studi Roma III (2003). Training in opera dramaturgy at the Humboldt and Freie Universität Berlin (2004-2005).

Internships and assistantships in dramaturgy at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, KunstenFestivaldesArts in Brussels, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin between 2004 and 2006.

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SOME COLLABORATIONS WITH DIRECTORS, CONDUCTORS, SET DESIGNERS 

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Malgorzata Szczesniak, Sasha Waltz, Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock, Luc Bondy, Daniel Barenboim, Peter Mussbach, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, Ingo Metzmacher, Alex Ollé/La Fura dels Baus, Calixto Bieito, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ivo Van Hove, Tobias Kratzer, Clément Cogitore

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SOME COLLABORATION WITH VISUAL ARTISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF OPERA, DANCE, THEATRE OR CLASSICAL MUSIC

Marina Abramovic, Dennis Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Francis Alÿs, Billy Apple, Jessica Backhaus, Amelia Bauer, Christian Boltanski, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Guillaume Bresson, Koen Broos, Elina Brotherus, Elena Chernyshova,  Denis Darzacq, Katrien De Blauwer, Simone Decker, Jan Dibbets, Claudine Doury, France Dubois, Marlene Dumas, Tim Eitel, Laura El-Tantawy, Michel François, Lara Gasparotto, Luigi Ghirri, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Stephen Gill, Anton Ginzburg, Geert Goiris, Nan Goldin, Andy Goldsworthy, Rune Guneriussen, Andreas Gursky, Ni Haifeng, Ann Hamilton, Nanna Hänninen, Aline Héau, Bill Henson, Candida Höfer, Roni Horn, Tom Hunter,Francisco Infante-Arana, Viviane Joakim, Thomas Jorion, JR, Anish Kapoor, Hendrik Kerstens, Ann Veronica Janssens, William Kentridge, Anni Leppäla, Ellen Kooi, Saul Leiter, Noomi Ljungdell, Ville Lenkkeri, Bas Losekoot, Ingo Maurer, Ryan McGinley, Corinne Mercadier, Meyer, Duane Michals, Joséphine Michel, Filippo Minelli, Enric Montes, Chad Moore, Myr Muratet, Youssef Nabil, Kumi Oguro, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Cornelia Parker, Mathieu Pernot,  Elizabeth Peyton, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Jaume Plensa, Gus Powell, Stéphanie Roland, Daan Roosegaarde, Gerhard Richter, Berni Searle, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Dries Segers, Sara Skorgan Teigen, Bernnaut Smilde, SMITH, Kiki Smith, Annelies Strba, Thomas Struth, Diana Thater, collectif Tendance Floue, Wolfgang Tillmans, Olympe Tits, Narcisse Tordoir, Luc Tuymans, Cy Twombly, Bowie Verschuuren, Bill Viola, Friederike Von Rauch, Gillian Wearing, Sascha Weidner, Lukasz Wierbowski.

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