Verkorte Educatieve Opleidingen in de Kunsten (only in Dutch)

Ruth Rondas obtained a Licentiate in Pedagogical Sciences, option Educational Pedagogics and an aggregate at the University of Ghent. In 2012 Ruth obtained a PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, with as theme the one-on-one relation in Higher Instrument Education. The interest for instrument education grew because of her passion for everything that has to do with education in combination with playing music. Thus she played for five years in the Propere Fanfare van de Vieze Gasten, a social-artistic project in the heart of the Brugse Poort (Ghent).

Since 2014 Ruth has been working at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel where - in addition to her teaching assignment in the specific teacher training course - she conducted a two-year study on the use of Contemporary Music in Part-time Art Education (piano). In 2019-2020 she took up the challenge of becoming head of the Educational Training in the Arts, where she is shaping this training together with an enthusiastic team. 

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Born in a house full of guitars, Maarten Vandenbemden (1994) received his first guitar lessons from his father. Thirteen years later, his path led to Antigoni Goni's class at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel where he obtained "summa cum laude" the masters in guitar and music writing.

As a soloist and with several orchestras, he played at Bozar (Brussels) and the Royal Palace of Caserta, among others, and from Jordan to China.
From a special fondness for chamber music, he regularly plays with sopranos Noémie Schellens and Kelly Poukens, with cellist Ann Van Hecke and in the colourful line-up of two tenors and two guitars as "Los Reyes de la Baraja".

Since 2018, Maarten has been the fourth member of the Four Aces guitar quartet, with which he will record a second album entirely dedicated to Belgian music in 2022 after the earlier Tabula Rasa.
With pianist Saskia Van Herzeele, he forms duo Adentro, a 2018 Supernova finalist and winner of the Chamber Music Prize at the Twenthe Guitar Festival (NL). Their first CD "Once upon a time" was released by Etcetera in December and was voted one of the 10 favourite albums of the year by US Classical Guitar Magazine in 2019. Courtesy of Beeldenstorm vzw, their second album will be released in late 2021. "Paris. Les années folles" is entirely dedicated to the music of the earlier 1920s.

Maarten teaches Applied Harmony and Harmony & Analysis and is the Coordinator Music for the Educatieve Master in de Kunsten at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, and teaches classical guitar at the Conservatory of Ghent. Since 2016, Maarten has also been actively involved in the Volterra Project , an innovative summer guitar course, and in Music Projects for Brussels, an organisation that introduces Brussels children, patients and inmates to classical music.

Maggy De Ridder obtained first prizes in solfège and harmony at the Lemmens Institute. At the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel she obtained a master's degree in music writing, a master's degree in composition, a teacher's degree and she also followed choral conducting. She taught for more than ten years in the DKO and is currently active at the Kunsthumaniora Brussel and the KCB.

She is also co-author and editor of Da Capo, a musical-didactical publication (Pelckmans), conductor of a mixed choir and composer. She is regularly asked as a member of the jury and several of her works have already been broadcast on television at home and abroad. 

Jan Geers has been professionally active in the cultural field as a director since 1999. In the past he worked for various houses and companies: DitoDito, Tristero, Nieuwpoorttheater, Villanella, Two-stroke Festival, Piece, Time Circus, Cie Louis, Campo, BOSTON, GLobe Aroma, De Spil, De Brakke Grond.... His work is socially engaged and often gives a deep human insight into the petite histoire of la flandre profonde. Geers is an experienced maker in the socio-artistic field. His PHD-research is about socio-artistic work and what this work tells about a community. In addition to his artistic work, Geers also has a diverse track-record as a theatre pedagogue.

Jan Vromman once hesitated between studying for a history degree and being a film director. In the meantime, it has mainly become the making of documentaries and not little concerns subjects that demand research, point of view, historical insight. Documentaries such as 'As long as there are shipbuilders singing' and 'The Art of Tree Cutting' or 'Le petit jeune homme de Binche' bear witness to this.

But the thinking remains multimedia and transversal. Curiosity also drove Jan Vromman to theatre, socio-artistic projects, installations and even fiction. Where audiovisual work often takes a character as a carrier for a film, he likes to opt for a social, broad fact. Involvement and emotion should not stand in the way of insight and analysis. The most recent documentary: 'The History of the Pig (in us)' is an illustration of this. Not a real journalistic work in the sense of biting into a topicality, but rather a meditation that situates the present in relation to the entire prehistory.

In addition, Jan Vromman is working on a research assignment in collaboration with the Brussels Art Platform & the VUB.

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Peter started his classical and modern ballet education at the Ballet Academy of Brabant and at Mudra in Brussels. He studied jazz dance with a.o. Jac Delsing and later with Steps 74th and David Howard Dance Center in New York. He danced with Pro Arte Gymnastica, Broadway Dance '87 and Dancin' Hollywood in Tokyo (Japan) and participated in "West Side Story" of the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He performed in dance videos, commercials, operettas, musicals and did several TV appearances.

He now teaches at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel musical department, the Brussels Art Humanities, the Lebbeke Academy and dance studio Ijvi Hagelstein. He also gives training courses and internships for dancers and dance teachers at Fedes, Amsterdam Dance Center, KVT and OVSG. He also works as a choreographer for "Broadway Dance Center Tokyo", Marisa Allen, Studio 100, VTM, VT4, Ketnet and others.