19 November from 2pm to 7pm: local 108 
20 November from 9am to 2pm: Auditorium Joseph Jongen

Biography
Violinist Alexis Galperin was born in Paris in 1955. In a career spanning almost forty years, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in most European countries, Russia, Israel, America and Japan.

He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and the Juilliard School in New York. His principal teachers were Roland Charmy, Ivan Galamian and Henryk Szeryng. He is a prizewinner in the Carl Flesch (London) and Paganini (Genoa) competitions, and First Prize in the Belgrade Competition. He also holds a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne.

He has appeared as soloist with the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine, the American Chamber Orchestra and the chamber orchestras of Sofia, Belgrade, Cologne, Tuscany, Bratislava, etc., under the baton of Manuel Rosenthal, under the baton of Manuel Rosenthal, Michel Tabachnick, Antoni Ros-Marba, Paul Méfano, Charles Groves, Bruno Mantovani, Marcello Viotti, etc. 

As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Library of Congress Summer Festival in Washington D.C., the Musicades de Lyon, the Nancyphonies, the Arcs, Siena, Asolo and Cremona festivals, and in the Radio-France concert series. A founding member of the American Chamber Players, an ensemble which was in residence at the Library of Congress for ten years, he has given hundreds of concerts in the United States and Canada. In France, he is a permanent guest artist with the Ensemble Stanislas.

Alexis Galpérine has premiered nearly one hundred works, notably with the ensembles 2e2m and Musicavanti. He is the dedicatee of Paul Méfano's Alone, Laurent Martin's Légendes (concerto for violin, with winds and choir), Yassen Vodenitcharov's concerto, sonatas by Frédérik Martin and Roger Boutry, Olivier Greif's Adagio, Carlos Roqué-Alsina's Belgirate, Edouard Souberbielle's Quartet...

He has also composed music for the cinema (for Coline Serreau, Benno Besson, etc.).

Professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (violin and pedagogy) and at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, he sits on juries for international competitions (president of the Ginette Neveu Competition in 2013) and gives master classes in France and abroad. He has been a guest at Bloomington University.

His discography to date includes some sixty recordings. Many of his CDs and DVDs have won awards (‘Choc’ from Le Monde de la Musique, ‘10’ from Répertoire, ‘Coup de Cœur’ from the Académie Charles Cros, ‘Diapason d'Or’, ‘Disc of the Month’ from Classica, etc.).

Alexis Galpérine is the author of musicological books and articles. His book Olivier Greif, edited by Brigitte François-Sappey and Jean-Michel Nectoux (Editions Aedam Musicae), won the Fondation Singer-Polignac Prize and the Prix de la Critique for best music book of the year. He is a member of the editorial board of La Revue du Conservatoire, and is currently President of the French section of ESTA (European String Teachers Association). He is also director of the violin collection at Delatour-France.

Aki Saulière, coordination

Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
Local 108 & Auditorium Joseph Jongen
17 rue du Chêne - 1000 Bruxelles

Active participants: student violinists/ as listeners: open to all students

Photo credit: Ferrante Ferranti