Vincent Ghadimi

Vincent Ghadimi (born 14 September 1968 in Rocourt in the Liège Province) is a Belgian pianist and composer, piano and solfège professor and accompanist at the Dutch-speaking Academy of Brussels.
Biography.
Training.
Ghadimi took his first private music lessons at the age of fifteen with composer and choir director Walter Vandorpe. He then undertook musical studies at the Schaerbeek Academy where he studied piano with Leonardo Anglani.
He then attended history of music classes (Henri Vanhulst) and solfège (Etienne De Lombaert) at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he obtained the first piano prizes () and chamber music (Serge Bémant), as well as the Higher Diploma of specialized solfège Michel Lysight). He also studied harmony and counterpoint at Franklin Gyselynck's Conservatory in Brussels.
At the Rotterdam Conservatory, he obtained the diploma of Master of Music for piano and chamber music with great distinction in Aquiles Delle Vigne's class as well as a specialization in piano 4 hands and two pianos with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri. He then studied with the latter for three years at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and also attended master classes by Lazar Berman, Zoltán Kocsis, Andrei Nikolsky, and Peter Eicher.
He also attended various internships in Mannheim, the Mozarteum University Salzburg (three consecutive years), the Summer Festival in Flaine, the École Normale de Musique de Paris, in Braine-l'Alleud ("Music-A Braine L'Alleud"), he became Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri's assistant the time of an internship. Ghadimi received early written encouragement from composer Joaquín Rodrigo.
Passionate about teaching of conducting by Sergiu Celibidache, he followed the phenomenology of music internships with his assistant Konrad von Abel. It is in this spirit that he gave a performance in a Catholic college (Sint-Jozef) in Sint-Niklaas in 2009 as part of "The Milena Principle", an organization of which he was a member. Ghadimi has also taken some choral conducting courses with Denis Menier and is currently pursuing his studies with Xavier Haag. He is part of the "À Chœur Joie" movement and leads The Egmont Voices choir.
Career.
He participates as a composer and conductor of children's choirs and as a conductor in the children's opera "Décamero lala" (performed at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels for "Jeugd en Muziek Brussel", in May 2005). As such, and in order to better prepare the children's choir, he took singing lessons for two years at Evelyne Bohen's in the Hoofdstedelijke Academie voor muziek, woord en dans.
In December 2012, he took part in a duet with his wife Cécile Marichal
 to a concert in support of the Cancer Support Group project at the Evere Cultural Centre.
"Le Crocodile en-chanté", a musical tale performed with Laurence Renson (mezzo-soprano) is performed at the Entrela (cultural centre of Evere) as part of Famizik on March 30, 2013.
He currently resides in Nivelles and is a full professor of piano and chamber music at the Dutch-speaking Academy in Brussels (""), as an artist he is part of the "Tournées art et vie" (French Community of Belgium).
In 2005, he and his wife, harpist Cécile Marichal, created the Polyface ensemble, which regularly performs in concert (Atelier de la Dolce Vita, Atelier Marcel Hastir, Auditorium Maene, Auditorium Hanlet, Centre Culturel les Chiroux, L'Heure Musicale, Festival au château d'Attalens in Switzerland...), exploring the little known repertoire for piano and harp, as well as the solo repertoire of these two instruments.
Awards.
Ghadimi is the holder of two first prizes in international piano competitions :
Works and recordings.
In addition to his piano career, Ghadimi composed many works: