Antoine Préat
Born in Paris in 1997, Antoine Préat began learning the piano at the age of nine and made his debut a year later at the Salle Gaveau. After graduating with honours from the École normale de musique de Paris-Alfred-Cortot, where he studied with Ludmila Berlinskaya and Guigla Katsarava, Antoine Préat furthered his studies at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Tatiana Sarkissova and Christopher Elton, graduating with a Master of Arts DipRAM – the highest distinction offered by the institution – and the Bach Prize. Antoine was also fascinated by early music, and studied both harpsichord and fortepiano under the guidance of Carole Cerasi, and fortepiano with Andreas Staier and Tobias Koch in Poland.
Throughout his career, Antoine Préat has been fortunate to receive additional guidance from Philippe Cassard, Cédric Pescia, Boris Berman, Pascal Rogé, Alberta Alexandrescu, Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal, Richard Goode, Imogen Cooper and Stephen Hough. Antoine has been invited to perform in prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall or the St John’s Smith Square in London, the Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot and Petit Palais in Paris, or Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, as well as festivals such as the Nohant Festival Chopin, Lisztomanias (Châteauroux), Chopin à Bagatelle, Nuits du Piano (Paris), IMS Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove and Encuentro de Santander. He has appeared on BBC Radio 3, France Musique, Scala Radio and Musiq3.
https://www.antoinepreat.com
https://citymusicfoundation.org/our-artists/antoine-preat
- Wim After Hours:
- Alex’ Waltz : Piano
- Midnight Variation : Piano
- Winds of change : Piano
- Alex’ Waltz : Piano
Dirk Schiltz
Dirk Schiltz
Dirk and I used to hang out in the same area near Antwerp when we were young lads, and we played in the same rock band, where he played the trumpet and was the singer (not simultaneously!). We enjoyed singing in close harmony, and we were certainly big fans of the French chanson style.
Occasionally we wrote songs together and one of these was called «On voudrait vivre sans problèmes». We used it in a musical (which was never produced) and wrote a large bunch of other pieces to accompany the story of a chap who wanted to sail through life without problems. One sequence of that musical had seven variations on the «On voudrait vivre» melody, and the Midnight Variation is one of those. It just refuses to leave my head ….
In the meantime, Dirk is retired but is still the driving force behind a charity that keeps the memory alive of some of his famous ancestors (Frans Mortelmans, the painter, and Lodewijk Mortelmans, the composer).
Nadia Bierinckx
Nadia is a classically trained and very experienced flute player. With prizes and degrees from the conservatories of Brussels, Antwerp and Gent, she immerses herself in virtually any music style and delivers flawless lived through performances.
At a very young age she discovered the world of music and early on she was fascinated by recorders. She never lost her passion for them. She has played, and still plays, in many ensembles where she displays her virtuosity in a broad range of genres on the recorder, various types of tin whistles and the guitar.
https://flutomanie.be/curriculum-nadia
- Wim After Hours :
- Far away : Tin whistle
- Morning busyness : Recorders
- Intermezzo: Vocals
- World untouched : Recorders
- Midnight Variation : Recorders
- Knackered : Recorders
- Lament : Vocals & Recorders
- Winds of change : Recorders
- Far away : Tin whistle
Wim Hautekiet
Wim Hautekiet
During business hours, Wim is busy with lawyering (or related business roles).
After hours, he creates all sorts of melodies and arrangements, and has done this for ages.
- Wim After Hours:
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- Morning busyness : Guitar
- Intermezzo : Vocals, Guitars and piano
- World untouched : Folk guitar
- Knackered : Guitars and piano
- Lament : Vocals
- Interludium in C Minor : Guitars and piano
- Postludium from Greece : Just Wim
- Morning busyness : Guitar