Pierre Georges Édouard Bartholomée (

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, 5 August 1937) is a Belgian conductor and composer.

Career

He began his musical studies at the age of six with piano lessons. Later on he graduated from the

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, where he received a piano education by André Dumortier and where he won several prizes. His education was completed with a series of

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piano performance classes given by

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. Together with

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, he founded the ''Ensemble Musique Nouvelle'' and the ''Centre de Recherches et de Création Musicales de Wallonie''. He has performed internationally as a pianist and a conductor.

Honours

* 1999 : created Knight Bartholomée, by king Albert II. * 2004 : Member of the

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. * 2011 : President of the

. * Officer of the Order of the Crown. * Knight of the

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References

Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
now houses most works and manuscripts of Bartholomée, after the bankruptcy of CeBeDeM in 2015. Musicians from Brussels 1937 births Living people Belgian male conductors (music) Belgian opera composers Belgian male opera composers Belgian classical pianists Royal Conservatory of Brussels alumni Academic staff of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels Officers of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Belgian knights Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite President of the Royal Academy of Belgium Belgian male classical pianists 21st-century Belgian conductors (music) 21st-century Belgian classical pianists 21st-century Belgian male musicians {{Belgium-musician-stub