Pierre Bartholomée

Pierre Georges Édouard Bartholomée (Brussels, 5 August 1937) is a Belgian conductor and composer.^[1]

Career

He began his musical studies at the age of six with piano lessons. Later on he graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he received a piano education by André Dumortier and where he won several prizes. His education was completed with a series of Beethoven piano performance classes given by Wilhelm Kempff.^[2]

Together with Henri Pousseur, he founded the Ensemble Musique Nouvelle and the Centre de Recherches et de Création Musicales de Wallonie. He has performed internationally as a pianist and a conductor.^[3]

Honours

• 1999 : created Knight Bartholomée, by king Albert II.
• 2004 : Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.^[4]
• 2011 : President of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
• Officer of the Order of the Crown.
• Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.