Viviane Spanoghe's career started in 1975, when she won a prize at the Dexia Banks Axion Classics competition. Since 1980, after a prize in the Belgian Rad'ios Tenuto competition, she performed at home and abroad with such renowned conductors as Georges Octors, Lawrence Foster, Janos Fürst, Michael Laus, Marco Guidarini and Martyn Brabbins and in 1999 she was a guest at the Kronberg International Cello Festival. Since being a laureate in the Brussels Queen Elizabeth competition 1991 Jan Michiels has been known for his very personal and multi-layered approach to the piano repertoire, combining old and new in always changing perspectives. Jan Michiels worked indeed closely with composers such as a.o. G.Kurtág, H.Holliger, H.Lachenmann, K.Goeyvaerts, K.Huber, R. Groslot and K.Defoort. One of his main inspiration sources is Luigi Nono, who stood at the centre of his doctorate in the Arts Teatro dellAscolto (2011).
