Daan Vandewalle

Daan Vandewalle enjoys an international reputation as a new music specialist, with a strong focus on 20th and 21st century American piano music. He studied at the Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium with Claude Coppens and at Mills College, California with Alvin Curran. He gave concerts and lectures devoted to American music throughout the world. He is a fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and teaches piano at the conservatory of Ghent, Belgium. His programs are often highly unusual both on a technical or intellectual level, often combining the classical repertoire [Mussorgski- integrale, the entire set of Chopin studies] with premieres of new works written especially for him f.e. Frith, Newman, Rzewski, Curran, De Alvear, Barlowe. He collaborated with many music ensembles (The Simpletones, Champ d’Action, Tense Serenity, Vapori del Cuori, Sonic Youth, Ostravska banda) and formed a piano-duo with Geoffrey Douglas Madge.