Vincent Ghadimi 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 and solfège at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he obtained the first piano prizes and chamber music. 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, the Summer Festival in Flaine, the École Normale de Musique de Paris, in 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 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". 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 EvereCultural Centre. Le Crocodile en-chanté, a musical tale performed with Laurence Renson is performed at the Entrela 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". In 2005, he and his wife, harpist Cécile Marichal, created the Polyface ensemble, which regularly performs in concert, 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 :
In addition to his piano career, Ghadimi composed many works:
1991: Nutations for clarinet and piano, éd. Alain Van Kerckhoven recorded at René Gailly by Ronald Van Spaendonck and Leonardo Anglani.
1992: Premiere at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles: Opuscule for instrumental ensemble.
2002: Jongleurs de Têtes for solo piano written for the Orléans competition obtains in its second version the Diplôme d'Honneur at the TIM 2006 competition, dedicated to Roberto Plano.
10 chansons pour enfants, voice-piano version, published by Lantro Music, on texts by Henk Pringels.
2006: Premiere of Mémoires d'enfance for piano, dedicated to Benjamin Rawitz, éd. Lantro Musicat the Belgian Contemporary Music Festival
2 Préludes for piano dedicated to Nelson Delle-Vigne and Cécile Marichal, éd. Lantro Music.
Toccatine for piano dedicated to.
Toccata for harp, dedicated to Cécile Marichal, éd Lantro Music
Zoo, pedagogical work for the harp, éd. Lantro Music
Circus, pedagogical work for the piano.
Petite suite antique pour flûte et harpe, played by Sophie Hallynck and
Cheese-Impromptu for harp and piano
Pop Corn for string orchestra, dedicated to the Desafinado Ensemble, direction Gabriel Laufer.
Verd ‘Ivresse’ for violin and piano, dedicated to the Gemini Duo
2014: Verwonding and Vers, two Lieder for soprano and harp, created by Martine Reyners and Cécile Marichal at the Overpelt Cultural Centre to texts by August Van Cauwelaert.
2008–2009: De Zwerver en de Roos musical tale for vocal quartet and piano, written as part of Jeugd en Muziek Brussel, for 6 performances, dedicated to the Vocamabile Ensemble, texts by Geert Vermeire.