Flute

Lieve Goossens is a passionate musician in different fields: she is soloflutist of the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, flute professor at Luca School of Arts in Leuven (january-october 2023) and chamber musician in several formations. From the academic year 2023-2024 she will be the new flute professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

After studying the flute in the music academy in Lokeren and at the conservatories of Gent and Antwerpen with Marjolijn Vanmechelen, Philippe Benoit and Aldo Baerten, she obtained the ‘Konzertdiplom’ with distinction at the University of Music in Saarbrücken with Prof. Gaby Pas-Van Riet. She followed masterclasses with Emmanuel Pahud, Peter-Lukas Graf, Philippe Bernold, Andrea Lieberknecht and Philippe Boucly.

Lieve is prizewinner of Mozartpreis Wiesbaden (2003, second prize), Gouden Vleugels (2002, with wind quintet Syrinx), Tenuto (1999, first prize) and Axion Classics (1997, first prize for flute and second prize for chamber music). Since september 2005 she is soloflutist of the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra after being Praktikantin and solo piccoloplayer in ‘Staatsorchester Saarbrücken’ from 2002 until 2005.

Lieve is a member of ‘I Solisti’, Belgian Wind Ensemble Antwerp and performs regularly in chamber music formations with colleagues of the orchestra and in orchestras and ensembles as Oxalys, La Monnaie Symphonic Orchestra, Opera Vlaanderen, Symfonie-orkest Vlaanderen etc.

From 2000 until 2002 she was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. From January 2023 until October 2023 Lieve is flute professor at Luca School of Arts in Leuven, from 2010 until 2021 she was guest professor at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and sinds 2015 she is giving lessons on orchestral excerpts and audition training at the Royal Conservatory in Liège. In october 2023 she will start as flute professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels.

Lieve plays on a golden Yamaha flute with a Faulisi headjoint. She is a Yamaha Artist.

Carlos Bruneel did his musical studies at the Antwerp Conservatorium and obtained the “higher diploma” with great distinction in 1982 in the class of Mr. Jan Van Reeth. In the same year he was a winner of the “Tenuto-competition” which gave him opportunities to play as a soloist for the Belgium radio ánd Television. He continued studying the flute in London with Jonathan Snowdon and followed Master Classes with Aurèle Nicolet, William Bennett, Andras Adorjan and Konrad Hünteler. Julius Baker invited him at the Guilliard School of Music New-York.

In the mean time he has been appointed in 1981 principal flute of “La Monnaie Symphonic Orchestra” (Belgium National Opera). Ever since he has been one of the most active and demanded flutists in Belgium, he played all over Europe, in America and Japan. He has performed as a soloist with many leading orchestras in Belgium such as “The Monnaie Symphonic Orchestra”, “BRTN Ancient Philharmonic Orchestra “ (=Radio Orchestra), “Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra”, “Flanders Symphonic Orchestra” and several Chamber Orchestras.

Carlos Bruneel has always been passionate by teaching. In 1994 he has been appointed as professor for flute at the Brussels Conservatorium (KCB) and in 2013 he became also head of the woodwind department of that same institution. He has been guest professor at the conservatory of Den Haag (Holland) and is giving Master Classes throughout Europe and Japan. His students have leading positions in numerous orchestras and ensembles. Carlos Bruneel is also regularly a member of the jury in international competitions.

Equally at home in chamber music, he was a member of the “Prometheus Ensemble” and, besides his solo recitals, he plays regularly various chamber music repertoire with his colleagues of the Monnaie Orchestra, in particularly the “Monnaie Wind Quintet”. He played concerts with “The Salzburger Solists” and in song recitals he played with Yvonne Kenny and Renée Fleming together with their pianists Geoffrey Parsons and Helmuth Deutch.

His recordings includes Rossini’s quartets for flute and string trio, flute concertos from the Mannheim School, Mozart concertos (flute concerto in G and the Symphony Concertante in Es), Belgium Romantic flute sonatas (Franck, Jongen), music by Carl Reinecke, chamber music by Albert Huybrechts, music for alto flute solo by Bernard Foccroulle, chamber music works with “Prometheus Ensemble”, “I Solisti da Camera” and several ‘ad hoc’ ensembles.