Frédéric d'Ursel

Frédéric d'Ursel received his first violin training from Édith Volckaert and then studied with Philippe Hirshhorn at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. He took part in the Tanglewood Festival (USA) in 1985 and 1986, where he played under Leonard Bernstein, Eiji Oue and Leon Fleischer among others, and also took part in master classes with Joseph Silverstein and the Muir String Quartet. As an orchestral musician, he has played under Sir Colin Davis, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Reinbert de Leeuw, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Antonio Pappano and Emmanuel Krivine, amongst others.

Frédéric d'Ursel is a co-founder of the Oxalys ensemble and has been associated with it since 1993, performing all over the world in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Conservatory of Moscow and the Library of Congress in Washington. He has taught violin at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles since 2000. He has also formed a duo with organist Cindy Castillo dedicated to Bach's sonatas; Jean-Pierre Deleuze composed his Traüme und Erwachen especially for them.