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BETTY BRUYLANTS
After training
as a pianist with Naum Sluzny at the Royal Conservatory in Mons,
Betty Bruylants turned to the harpsichord and studied, first
with Aimée Van De Wiele in Paris, and then with Kenneth
Gilbert at the Flemish Music Conservatory of Antwerp.
As an interpreter, she has performed in a number of European
countries (Italy, Switzerland, U.K., Belgium, Czechoslovakia,
Luxembourg), especially in solo recitals but also in chamber
music ensembles. On a tour in Spain in 1984 she gave 16 concerts,
including one in the Manuel de Falla auditorium in Granada. In
France, she has appeared in a great many cities, churches and
festivals, like "Les Grandes Heures de Cluny", the
Provence festival, the festival of "L'Eglise des Blancs
Manteaux" in Paris, the "Tarentaise" Summer Festival
and the Savoy music festival. In 1994, she went on a tour of
the major cities of India. She regularly participates in radio
and television broadcasts, as well as in harpsichord courses.
She is an ambassador of the Belgian musicians of the XVIIIth
century like Jean-Baptiste Loeillet,
Hubert Renotte, Dieudonné Raick, Joseph-Hector Fiocco.
For ten years she was artistic director of the Roquebrun festival
(Hérault, France). In 1985, she founded a private harpsichord
school intended for enthusiastic and committed amateurs. She
has developed a method of her own, adapted to the needs of each
child.
In 1991, she set up a non-profit organization, "The Friend
of the Harpsichord" and in 1994 she started "The Harpsichord
on Thursdays", a series of recitals organized by this organization. |
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