Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

Informations générales

Inaugurated on 12 July 1939, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel provides high-level training to exceptional young talents. A training center of excellence with an international scope and reputation, its curriculum is reserved for outstanding musicians in the disciplines of piano, violin, cello, viola, chamber music and voice. At the time of its creation already, the renowned critic Emile Vuillermoz described
the Music Chapel as a sort of “modern Villa
Medici”.
The Music Chapel has reinvented itself since 2004 around an increasingly artistic mission in six disciplines and around 60 young soloists in residence. The inauguration in 2015 of a new wing – a success both architecturally and in terms of the surprising functional possibilities it offers – now enables the Chapel to work openly in its laboratory and to foster an ongoing musical development.

As a result, more than ever before, the institution has decided to spread its wings beyond its hive, outside of its habitual framework, among artists and with the audience via the following:
• The transmission of knowledge, among others during public masterclasses, on and off site;
• Sharing the stage between young artists and their masters, in many projects in Belgium and around the world, throughout the MuCH and On Tour seasons;
• “Community” projects that are destined to take root in places where music is not always naturally at home;
• The development of new media: live-streaming, digital recording, complete recordings and original archival projects.