Jacqueline Fontyn

* 1930 in Antwerp; from the age of five Jacqueline Fontyn received daily piano lessons with Ignace Bolotine, studied music theory, instrumentation and composition with Marcel Quinet in Brussels and continued her training with Max Deutsch in Paris; in 1956 she attended Hans Swarowsky’s conducting class at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 1959 she won the Prix de Rome. From 1963 to 1970 she was professor of music theory at the Antwerp Conservatory, from 1970 to 1990 she taught composition at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels. Her catalogue of works comprises more than 120 compositions. She received the Oscar-Espla-Preis (Spain) and the Arthur-Honegger-Preis of the Fondation de France and wrote two commissioned works for the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress in Washington; she is a member of the Belgian Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts and was raised to the nobility by King Baudouin in 1993 (Baroness). Three albums connect her with Cybele. The Orchestral Works were recorded in 2008 by the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava under David Porcelijn; the recording appeared on the top list of the nmz record critics in 2009 in the category of new music. In 2014 Jacqueline Fontyn and the Concerto appeared as Vol. 5 of the Edition Künstler im Gespräch, with Kolja Lessing, Tom De Cock, Sven Pollkötter, Jan-Filip Tupa, Gaby Pas-Van Riet and Martin Schmeding as well as the Göttinger Symphonieorchester under Christoph-Mathias Mueller, together with conversations with Mirjam Wiesemann. Jacqueline Fontyn: Trios (2022) brings together six trios from almost six decades, played by the Trio Spilliaert with Apolline Degoutte, Raphaël Béreau and Karel Coninx.