Guy Van Waas ( Brussels, 15 April 1948) is a Belgian conductor, clarinetist and organist. He was clarinetist of the

Orchestre des Champs-Élysées The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is an orchestra that specializes in the performance of music from the period from roughly 1750 to the early twentieth century, that is, it covers the period from the flourishing of Haydn to that of Mahler. It perfo ...

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and the

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century ( nl, Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw) is a Dutch early music orchestra. Frans Brüggen and Lucy van Dael co-founded the orchestra in 1981. Sieuwert Verster became financial manager in 1984. Although he did no ...

. Since 2001 he is director of Les Agrémens, a baroque orchestra sponsored by the

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and conductor of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur. He was also professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire of

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.Site du Centre de chant choral de Namur
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Discography

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

: Symphony Nr. 82 & 86 & Ludwig August Lebrun Hoboconcert, (Ricercar, 2010) * André Ernest-Modeste Grétry ''Céphale et Procris ou l'Amour conjugal'' Ballet-héroique 1773. Ricercar RIC 302 2CDs, 2010. * Rodolphe Kreutzer '' La mort d'Abel'' Ediciones Speciales, 2012 * Antoine Dauvergne: ''La Vénitienne'' Opéra-ballet (Ricercar, 2012) * François-Joseph Gossec: ''Thésée'', Tragédie-lyrique (Ricercar, 2013) * André Modeste Grétry: ''La caravane du Caire'', Comédie-lyrique (Ricercar, 2013) *

Jean Philippe Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera ...

: ''Le Temple de la Gloire'' Ballet-héroïque (Ricercar, 2014) * Carl Maria von Weber: ''Klarinettenkonzerte Nr.1 & 2'', Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, with Eric Hoeprich, clarinet (Glossa, 2019)

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