Horn

Jeroen Billiet (b. 1977, Tielt, Flanders, Belgium) studied at the Royal Conservatoires of Ghent and Brussels with Luc Bergé, where he passed his final horn exam with distinction in 2001. He continued his studies with lessons from Froydis Ree Wekre, and specialised in his great passion: historical instruments with teachers such as Claude Maury and Anthony Halstead. After this, he embarked on a career that took him to the most prominent early music formations: Concerto Köln, i Giardino Armonico, Il Fondamento, l'Orchestre des Champs Elysées and Irish Baroque Orchestra. From 2002 to 2009 he was solo horn of les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble led by Marc Minkowski and from 2012 to 2018 with Insula Orchestra led by Laurence Equilbey. He is currently soloist with le Concert d'Astrée led by Emanuelle Haim, les Talens Lyriques led by Christophe Rousset and with B'Rock Ghent. He also performs regularly with other top ensembles and as a soloist on both historical and modern horn types, focusing on a wide range of musical styles and genres. He has performed at almost all major European music festivals and has recorded more than 70 CD and DVD recordings in ensemble and chamber music. The internationally acclaimed solo CD "fall now blows its horn", which put the lyrical Flemish horn repertoire back into the spotlight, was released by the Phaedra label in 2010. In 2016, a second solo CD "Chants d'Amour" appeared, with works from the Liege and Brussels romantic horn tradition on the Terra Nova label.
    
Besides years of experience as a teacher at, among others, the Royal Conservatories of Antwerp and Ghent and at the Municipal Conservatoire of Bruges, he is internationally known as a researcher. In 2008 Jeroen con brio obtained the title Laureate of the Orpheus Institute, and in March 2021 he obtained the Doctorate of Arts at the University of Ghent with his dissertation on the Ghent horn school during the Belle Epoque period. In July 2019, Jeroen Billiet hosted the successful 51st International Horn Symposium, attracting more than 700 horn players from 40 different countries to the city centre of Ghent. 

Recently, Jeroen Billiet received the prestigious Punto Award from the International Horn Society, in recognition of his international career as a player, teacher and researcher. From September 2021, he will follow in the footsteps of his former teacher Luc Bergé as principal study teacher in horn at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.

Born in Roeselare in 1982, horn player Anthony Devriendt began his professional horn studies at KCB (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) in the class of Luc Bergé in 2000. In 2006, he obtained his master's degree. Immediately after his studies, Anthony Devriendt started a career as an orchestral horn player. In 2006, he became 4th horn of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and since 2009 he has been solo horn of the National Orchestra of Belgium. 

In addition, he is a much sought-after guest solo horn with the other Belgian Orchestras, but he is also active abroad in this role with, among others, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, Filharmonie Zuid-Nederland, WDR Symfonie Orchester and KBS orchestra in Seoul. 

In addition, Anthony Devriendt is a member of the ensemble I Solisti del Vento and the Brass Quintet of the NOB and is a frequent guest of Oxalys, Het Nederlands Blaasensemble and various occasional ensembles. 

As a soloist, Anthony Devriendt has already been a guest with Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Koninklijke Muziekkapel van de Gidsen and with many amateur orchestras.

Anthony has teaches at the LUCA School of Arts, Campus Lemmens, since 2020, and from the academic year 2024-2025 also at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.