Vincent Ghadimi

Vincent Ghadimi (born 14 September 1968 in Rocourt, where he studied piano with Leonardo Anglani.

He then attended history of music classes (Henri Vanhulst) and solfège (Etienne De Lombaert) at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he obtained the first piano prizes and chamber music (Serge Bémant), as well as the Higher Diploma of specialized solfège (Michel Lysight). He also studied harmony and counterpoint at Franklin Gyselynck's Conservatory in Brussels.

At the Rotterdam Conservatory, he obtained the diploma of Master of Music for piano and chamber music with great distinction in Aquiles Delle Vigne's class as well as a specialization in piano, four hands and two pianos, with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri. He then studied with the latter for three years at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and also attended master classes by Lazar Berman, Zoltán Kocsis, Andrei Nikolsky, and Peter Eicher.

He also attended various internships in Mannheim, the Mozarteum University Salzburg (three consecutive years), the Summer Festival in Flaine, the École Normale de Musique de Paris,

In December 2012, he took part in a duet with his wife Cécile Marichal to a concert in support of the Cancer Support Group project at the Evere Cultural Centre.

Le Crocodile en-chanté, a musical tale performed with Laurence Renson (mezzo-soprano) is performed at the Entrela (cultural centre of Evere) as part of Famizik on March 30, 2013.

He currently resides in Nivelles and is a full professor of piano and chamber music at the Dutch-speaking Academy in Brussels , as an artist he is part of the "Tournées art et vie" (French Community of Belgium).

In 2005, he and his wife, harpist Cécile Marichal, created the Polyface ensemble, which regularly performs in concert (Atelier de la Dolce Vita, Atelier Marcel Hastir, Auditorium Maene, Auditorium Hanlet, Centre Culturel les Chiroux, L'Heure Musicale, Festival au château d'Attalens in Switzerland...), exploring the little known repertoire for piano and harp, as well as the solo repertoire of these two instruments.

Awards Ghadimi is the holder of two first prizes in international piano competitions: 1993: "Doelen", Rotterdam

Works and recordings In addition to his piano career, Ghadimi composed many works: 1991: Nutations for clarinet and piano, éd. Alain Van Kerckhoven recorded at René Gailly by Ronald Van Spaendonck and Leonardo Anglani. 1992: Premiere at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles: Opuscule for instrumental ensemble. 2002: Jongleurs de Têtes for solo piano written for the Orléans competition (played by Marina Scalafiotti) obtains in its second version the Diplôme d'Honneur at the TIM 2006 competition, dedicated to Roberto Plano. 10 chansons pour enfants (in Dutch), voice-piano version, published by Lantro Music, on texts by Henk Pringels. 2006: Premiere of Mémoires d'enfance for piano, dedicated to Benjamin Rawitz, éd. Lantro Musicat the Belgian Contemporary Music Festival 2 Préludes for piano dedicated to Nelson Delle-Vigne and Cécile Marichal, éd. Lantro Music. Toccatine for piano dedicated to . Toccata for harp, dedicated to Cécile Marichal, éd Lantro Music