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"Music: Breath of the statues. Perhaps: Silence of images. Your language where languages end" - Rainer Maria Rilke

Hans Ryckelynck

Born in Ghent in 1972, Hans Ryckelynck started to study the piano with Lieve Saerens at the age of seven. From 1990 onwards, he continued with Johan Duijck at the Ghent Royal Conservatory of Music, from which he obtained the Concert Diploma, summa cum laude. He is also a graduate of the world-famous Queen Elisabeth College of Music. At the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Rafaël D’Haene. He obtained a Master’s Degree in music theory and was awarded the “Gevaert Prize” and the “Lunssens Prize”. From 1995 till 1999, he studied with Abdel Rahman El Bacha in Paris. Hans Ryckelynck won prizes in the Cantabile, Dexia Classics and Tenuto competitions. He was also awarded the Belgian Artistic Promotion Prize of Sabam, the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers.” . He is a laureate of the Belgian “Stichting Roeping” and of the Rotary Club Ghent chamber music competition. As a soloist he regularly performs in recitals in Belgium. His chamber music partners include, amongst others, Yuki Hori (violin), Jan Sciffer (cello), Hendrik and Ludo Ide, with whom he forms the Piano Trio I Giocatori. He has also given concerts in Luxemburg, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, China and Japan. He has performed with the Danel String quartet, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra and the Flemish Radio Choir.
His first solo recording (Phaedra, In Flanders’ Fields vol. 27 – Piano music by Jongen, De Vocht and Mortelmans) was chosen “CD of the week” by the Belgian radio, which said: “He plays these works highly sensitively and with a profound musical intelligence... his playing is expressive, warm and intelligent... with a precise touch and delicacy.” In December 2003 and April 2005, he performed in the famous Tokyo Opera City Hall. On the occasion of his latest performance there, he presented the complete Brahms violin sonatas, which he recorded with violinist Yuki Hori (Phaedra Classics 292017).  With Jan Guns (bass clarinet), he recorded a CD with music by Martinu, Hindemith, Schoeck, Verbesselt and others (Phaedra, In Flanders’ Fields vol. 43). This recording was nominated as one of the 10 best classical CDs of the year 2005 by Trends magazine. In 2006 a new cd with piano music by Joseph Jongen and Georges Lonque received international praise and was awarded a “coup de coeur” by Mezzo-Forte: “Finesse, délicatesse, fluidité, énergie, légèreté, chaleur... un concentré de sensations pianistiques admirablement servies par Hans Ryckelynck.” With Jan Sciffer he also recorded cello sonatas of Celis and Vierne (Phaedra, In Flanders’ Fields vol. 60), a recording that was highly acclaimed by the Belgian and international press.
Hans Ryckelynck is a teaching assistent at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and an accompanist at the Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts in Roeselare.