Jan Michiels

Jan Michiels (B, born 1966) studied piano under Abel Matthys at the Brussels Conservatory and worked at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. In 1989 he won the international E. Durlet Competition, in 1991 he was a laureate of the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition and in 2006 he received the Gouden Vleugels / KBC Music Prize. He currently teaches piano at the Brussels Royal Conservatory where, for the last eight years, he has also led the class in contemporary music. He regularly appears as a soloist or alongside chamber music ensembles (including the Prometheus Ensemble and in a piano duo with Inge Spinette). He performs in both Europe and Asia with conductors such as Angus, Baudo, Boreycko, Edwards, Eötvös, Nézet-Séguin, Rahbari, Rundel, Siebens, Stern, Tamayo, Pfaff, Zender and Zagrosek. He has also played the piano in dance productions by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Vincent Dunoyer and Sen Hea Ha. In addition to many radio recordings, he has also released CDs containing the work of, amongst others, Brahms, Dvorák, Debussy, Bartók, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Ligeti, Kurtág and Goeyvaerts. In 2005, he recorded the complete piano works of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.