Bart Verstraeten

Valse mélancolique pour Piano

Bart Verstraeten (Belgium - °1981) started his musical education at the Music Academy of Sint-Niklaas. He obtained his Master's Degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, where he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Peter Thomas, in 2004 and in 2007 his Master's Degree in Composition where he was tutored by Luc Van Hove and Wim Henderickx. He graduated a Master of the Performing Arts (Piano) at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 2014 under the auspices of Johan Duijck. He received additional piano instruction at the hands of maestros Jonathan Powell, Eliane Rodrigues and Irene Russo. Currently he teaches courses in harmony, composition, solo piano and accompaniment at the municipal academies for Music and Drama in Deurne and Wilrijk (Antwerp).