Stéphane Ginsburgh

Stéphane Ginsburgh (born 27 November 1969) is a Belgian pianist of Austrian origin. He is a piano professor at the Geneva University of Music.

Biography Ginsburgh was born in Brussels. After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons and Liège in piano and chamber music, Ginsburgh studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly Margulis, and particularly Claude Helffer in Paris for contemporary music and Jerome Lowenthal in New York.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy of science from the Université libre de Bruxelles, an M.M in piano, and a Ph.D. in arts from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2022, he is a piano professor at the Geneva University of Music.

Festivals and other activities Ginsburgh has performed at important festivals such as Agora at IRCAM (Paris), Ars Musica (Brussels), Festival de Wallonie, Festival van Vlaanderen, Tzlil Meudcan Festival (Tel-Aviv), Festival Transit (Leuven), Milano Musica, Festival Next Wave (New York), Festival de Marseille, Festival Courtisane (Gent), Artefact Festival (Leuven), Festival Midis-Minimes (Brussels), Festival Loop (Brussels), Biennale Charleroi-Danse, Gentsche Feesten, Moscow Autumn Contemporary Music Festival, Les Nuits Botanique (Brussels), Quincena Musical (San Sebastián), Imatronic/Piano+ ZKM, and Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

Ginsburgh taught piano and philosophy at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and for several years chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and the music school of Mons. He was assistant for the piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels from 2012 until 2018.

He translated Eric Hobsbawm's Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz into French for Aden Editions. He has also written several articles about politics, and the interpretation of contemporary music.

Works dedicated to Ginsburgh En Suspens, concerto for piano and strings by Jean-Luc Fafchamps (2023) The Naked Truth by Frederic Rzewski (2021) gendarme de la libertad by David Toub (2020) Grand Epic Fanfare for flute and piano by Matthew Shlomowitz (2020) America: A Poem by Frederic Rzewski (2020) Musique pour le lever du jour by Melaine Dalibert (2018) Piano Hero #4 by Stefan Prins (2016–17) Piano Hero #3 by Stefan Prins (2016) Feynman speech sonata by André Ristic (2016) A dog is a machine for loving by Alec Hall (2015–2019) Dear Diary by Frederic Rzewski (2014) Beth/Veth by Jean-Luc Fafchamps (2012) Salouette from Three Pieces by Frederic Rzewski dedicated to Salomé Lou Ginsburgh (2011) Rap and Tap by Jean-Luc Fafchamps (2011) Popular Contexts 2 by Matthew Shlomowitz (2010) quartet for piano by David Toub (2010) West Pole by Panayiotis Kokoras (2008) An die Nacht by Benoît Mernier (2003) Back to the voice by Jean-Luc Fafchamps (1999)

Prizes Prize Tenuto BRTN 1995, Belgium Fondation Schlumberger, Académie Musicale de Villecroze, France Ronit Amir Lowenthal Endowment Scholarship, Music Academy of the West, Montecito, US Prix Pelemans 1999 for interpretation of Belgian contemporary music, Brussels

Discography Among many CD releases, Ginsburgh's renditions of Marcel Duchamp's Erratum Musical and Morton Feldman's Last Pieces received praising reviews by New York critics. He has recorded three albums with music by Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Morton Feldman. Other recent releases include a five-CD box for Sub Rosa with Feldman's complete piano music, The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard - 24 Preludes and Fugues by Anthony Burgess for Grand Piano/Naxos Records, and Sergei Prokofiev's complete piano sonatas for Cypres Records, which was praised by critics as "fireworks of creativity".

Selected recordings Gendarme de la Libertad, David Toub, Sub Rosa, 2025 Two Extended Pieces for Four Pianos, Julius Eastman, 2 LPs, Sub Rosa, 2022 Speaking Rzewski, Frederic Rzewski, Sub Rosa, 2021 Three Extended Pieces for Four Pianos, Julius Eastman, Sub Rosa, 2021 Augmented, Stefan Prins, Kairos, 2019 The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Anthony Burgess, Grand Piano/Naxos Records, 2018 Ataraxia, David Toub, World Edition, 2016 Intégrale des Sonates pour piano, Sergei Prokofiev, Cypres records, 2015 Beth/Veth, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2015 Back to, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2013 Vexations, Erik Satie, Sub Rosa, 2008 For Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 2006 Melencholia si..., Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Sub Rosa, 2001 Erratum Musical, Marcel Duchamp, Sub Rosa, 2001 Last Pieces, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 2001 Is, Renaud De Putter, Sub Rosa, 1999 Chorée, Renaud De Putter, Sub Rosa, 1998 Pieces for More Than Two Hands, Morton Feldman, Sub Rosa, 1991