Jury 2026 nl

Marc Danel (Frankrijk)

Violist
Oprichter van de beroemde Quatuor Danel
Artistiek leider van de Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Akademie (Amsterdam), Nederland
Professor aan het Conservatorium van Lyon (CNSMD), Frankrijk
Professor aan The Music and Education Higher School of Namur, België

Marc Danel grew up in Lille, France, where both he and his sister learned violin with Jezdimir Vujicic. He continued his studies with Prof Igor Ozim in Cologne graduating with high hours in 1992. In 1991, he founded the Danel Quartet, studying extensively with the Amadeus and Borodin Quartets, as well as with Pierre Penassou, Hugh Maguire, Walter Levin and Fiodor Druzhinin. As leader of the quartet, he was major prizewinner of all the six competitions they entered between 1991 to 1995, including Evian, London and St Petersburg. Since 1991, Marc Danel has performed 2500 concerts with the quartet including 25 performances of the complete cycle of Shostakovitch quartets and numerous performances of the Beethoven, Weinberg and Bartok cycles in the major halls in Europe, USA, Russia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South America and Central Asia. The quartet have recorded more than 20 CDs, garnering numerous awards in Europe and the US. The quartet have championed the great but neglected soviet composer Mechtislav Weinberg, playing his quartets extensively since the ‘90s and recording the all of his 17 string quartets, (2009). For Weinberg’s centenary this year, the quartet will give 7 performances of the complete cycle of quartets, some of which the quartet have premiered. The quartet residence at Manchester University. Marc Danel is artistic leader of the Dutch National String Quartet Academy (NSKA), many students of which have won major competitions. A highly sought-after teacher, he teaches at CNSDM Lyon and IMEP Namur, and at Manchester University where the quartet are artists in residence. He has also given Masterclasses in Europe, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Bielorussia and has a regular collaboration with the National Youth Orchestra of Chile.

Alexis Galpérine (Frankrijk)

Violist
Professor aan het National Conservatory of Music in Parijs, Frankrijk (viool en pedagogiek)
Professor aan het Amerikaanse conservatorium van Fontainebleau, Frankrijk

Violinist Alexis Galpérine was born in Paris in 1955. In his nearly forty-year career he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in most European countries, Russia, Israel, America and Japan. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and at the Juilliard School in New York. His main teachers were Roland Charmy, Ivan Galamian and Henryk Szeryng. He is laureate of the Carl Flesch (London) competition, Paganini (Genoa) competition and First Prize at the Belgrade competition. He also holds a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne. He has performed as a soloist with the Orchester Lamoureux, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester Philharmonique de Lorraine, the American Chamber Orchestra and chamber orchestras from Sofia, Belgrade, Cologne, Tuscany, Bratislava etc., under the direction of Manuel Rosenthal, Michel Tabachnick, Antoni Ros-Marba, Paul Méfano, Charles Groves, Bruno Mantovani, Marcello Viotti… As a chamber musician, he has performed many festivals such as the Library of Congress Summer Festival in Washington DC, the Musicades de Lyon, the Nancyphonies, the Arcs, Siena, Asolo, Cremona and in the concert series of Radio-France. A founding member of the American Chamber Players, an ensemble that was ten years in residence at the Library of Congress, he has given hundreds of concerts in the United States and Canada. In France, he is a permanent guest artist of the Ensemble Stanislas. Alexis Galpérine has created nearly a hundred works, notably with the 2e2m and Musicavanti ensembles. He is the dedicatee of Alone by Paul Méfano, Légendes of Laurent Martin (concerto for violin, with winds and choir), the concerto by Yassen Vodenitcharov, sonatas by Frédérik Martin and Roger Boutry, Adagio by Olivier Greif , Belgirate by Carlos Roqué-Alsina, Edouard Souberbielle Quartet … The cinema called on him and he composed stage music (for Coline Serreau, Benno Besson …) Professor at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris (violin and pedagogy) and at the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, he sits on the juries of international competitions (president of the Ginette Neveu Competition in 2013) and gives masterclasses in France and abroad . He was notably invited to Bloomington University. His discography currently has around sixty recordings. A number of CDs and DVDs were distinguished (“Choc” from the World of Music, “10” from Repertory, “Coup de Cœur” from the Charles Cros Academy, “Diapason d’Or”, “Disc of the Month” from Classica …) Alexis Galpérine is the author of musicological books and articles. The Olivier Greif book, in which he participated under the direction of Brigitte François-Sappey and Jean-Michel Nectoux (Editions Aedam Musicae), won the Singer-Polignac Foundation Prize and the Critics’ Prize, best musical book of the ‘year. He is a member of the editorial board of La Revue du Conservatoire, he is now President of the French section of ESTA (European String Teachers association) and directs the violin collection of Delatour-France editions.

Marie Hallynck (België)

Cellist
Professor cello aan het Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, België
Oprichter van de beroemde Kheops ensemble

A seasoned soloist and passionate chamber musician and pedagogue, Marie Hallynck is one of the most outstanding cellists of her generation.
She has performed in prestigious halls including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Philharmonie in Cologne, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Philharmonie in Berlin, to name but a few.
She has played as a soloist with orchestras across Europe, in Turkey, the USA and Korea, including with the St Petersburg and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and l’Orchestre National de Lille, and alongside pianists Cédric Tiberghien, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden and Muhiddin Dürrüoglu.
In 2006 she formed the Kheops ensemble with Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu, clarinettist Ronald Van Spaendonck and harpist Sophie Hallynck. The ensemble brings together several musicians including Ning Kam, Tatiana Samouil, Lise Berthaud and Gaby Van Riet, and its discography spans from Beethoven to living composers, as can be heard on the album Fugitives (Cyprès, 2019), devoted to the works of the ensemble’s pianist-composer.
Marie Hallynck studied with Félicien Doyen, Reine Flachot, Edmond Baert, Janos Starker and Natalia Gutman. She has received numerous national and international honours including at the famous Eurovision Competition for classical music, the Tromp competition (Eindhoven), honorary diplomas from the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena and an award from la Fondation belge de la Vocation. She is also a Laureate of the Juventus foundation and the Emile Bernheim foundation.
In 2001, she was selected as a ‘Rising Star’ by the Association of European Concert halls and the following year, the Belgian Music press awarded her the ‘Soliste de l’Année’.
She has recorded extensively and her albums with Harmonia Mundi, Fuga libera, Cyprès, Alpha, Naxos, Ricercar and Musique en Wallonie have been received with critical acclaim. Her latest recording (Warner Classics) is devoted to the cello concerto by Dirk Brossé, which she performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer.
As well as her concert career, Marie Hallynck has taught at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles since the age of 19. She has been invited as a jury member at international competitions (ARD Munich, Queen Elisabeth Competition).
She plays a 1717 cello by Matteo Goffriller.

Pierre Henri Xuereb (France)

Violist
Professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, France
Professor at the Conservatoire Royal de musique de Liège, Belgique
Artistic director of la fête de l’alto
Founder du Primrose Ensemble

Pierre-Henri Xuereb is a French violist who also performs on the viola d’amore. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Serge Collot and continued his studies in the United States with renowned masters such as Lillian Fuchs, Walter Trampler and William Primrose, earning a Bachelor of Music cum laude in Boston.
At the age of 21, he became principal violist of the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Pierre Boulez. Since 1989, he has been a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and he gives masterclasses around the world.
He has collaborated with many prestigious conductors, performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, and recorded more than 80 CDs. He is also the artistic director of “La Fête de l’Alto” in Lasalle, in the Cévennes, and the founder of the Primrose Ensemble, dedicated to the viola.
Numerous composers have dedicated works to him, and he regularly serves on the juries of prestigious international competitions.