My story
From Belgium to Greece
Elke Robersscheuten grew up in Ekeren, near Antwerp in Belgium.
With the musical genes of her great-grandmother, she soon felt attracted by the black and white keyboard of the piano. On her 18th, Levente Kende, the famous Hungarian and Flemish pianist opened for her the doors of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. In Louvain, she added a master in music with Alan Weiss and Renaat Beheidt. There, she also got interested in historical performance practice and studied the harpsichord. In 2005, she landed in Athens, Greece, and almost immediately started teaching piano at the Kodaly Conservatoire. |
If music be the food of love, play on.” Duke Orsino in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
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As an accompanist, Elke Robersscheuten is collaborating with instrumentalists and singers in concerts, recordings, auditions, and exams, on piano and harpsichord.
She also works with choirs, like the Kodaly Conservatory Children's Choir and Mixed Choir, as well as the Greek Radio and Television Choir (ERT). She has performed with several ensembles and orchestras, like Armonia Atonea (Athens Camerata). As a soloist, she has a soft spot for the Romantics. However, she doesn’t hesitate to travel through time and even dares to challenge the classics with the complicity of, e.g. Alma Mahler or Amy Beach. She loves teaching at the Kodaly Conservatory students: beginners, amateurs or students preparing for a professional career (degrees and diplomas). As a writer, in Dutch, some of her reviews of concerts in Athens have been published in a newsletter for the Flemish community. With an account about Andreas Vesalius and music: “Zoektocht naar muziek rond Vesalius, ook een queeste”, she contributed to: Theo Dirix (ed). Vesalian landscapes, with Pascale Pollier, Bryan Green, Maurits Biesbrouck, Chantal Pollier, ARSIC, 2023, p. 38-48. |
Comings and goings
New projects and concerts will be announced soon
8 OCTOBER 2023, Vesalian Landscapes,
in music & poetry, with Theo Dirix in Art House Ideomelo, Maroussi ; (Liszt and Petrarch & Shelley). 23 JUNE 2023, Vesalian Landscapes,
in music & poetry, with Theo Dirix in the Chapel Grauwzusters, Antwerp, Belgium; (Liszt and Petrarch & Shelley). 12 May 2023, openingsconcert Piano City Athens, Greece
In the National Gardens, Athens, Greece (Peter Benoit, Lodewijk Mortelmans and Liszt). 10 SEPTEMBER 2022, A Necromantic Night,
in music & poetry, with Theo Dirix In the Athenaeum Conservatoire, Athens, Greece; (Chopin, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff & Kavafis, Pessoa, Nooteboom and Rückert). |