ROBERT GROSLOT
Robert Groslot, piano
The Belgian musician Robert Groslot was born in Mechelen and studied at the
Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, winning national competitions for violin and
for piano, as well as the first prize in the Alessandro Casagrande Piano Competition
at Terni in 1974 and the award of laureate in the 1978 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium
International Piano Competition. He has enjoyed a busy career as a soloist with
conductors of the greatest distinction throughout the world, in Europe, America
and Asia, and has some fifty recordings to his credit. As a composer he has
written some twenty works for various ensembles and is responsible for a larger
number of orchestrations and arrangements. He has appeared as a conductor with
the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster
National Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Flanders Philharmonic,
among others, and is the chief conductor of the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of
Flanders and founder-director of the orchestra II Novecento.
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