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International Double Bass Festival of Belgium

August 10 @ 8:00 am - August 14 @ 5:00 pm

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About the Event

For this fourth edition, the FESTIVAL will take place on the site of the IMEP in NAMUR  

•Master classes led by renowned educators

•International Competitions for Young Double Bass Players

(3 categories from 7 to 18 years old)

•An International Competition in the RECITAL category (for ages 19 and up) endowed with prestigious prizes of 10,000, 4,000 and 2,000 euros!

•Concert (solo & double bass ensemble)  

Masterclasses

Thierry  BARBE (FR), Zhaoyang  CHANG (BE),  Christine  HOOCK (D), Junxia  HOU (CN), Petru  IUGA (RO),  TianYang LIU (US), Bing  LUO (CN), Thomas  MARTIN (UK),  Eric  MATHOT (BE), Mark  MORTON (US), Catalin ROTARU (RO) , Stefan  SCHÄFER (DE),  Xia YANG (CN)

Competitions

This year, the FESTIVAL is organizing two separate COMPETITIONS :
•Competition for young double bass players aged 7 to 18 in several categories

•Recital competition for double bass players aged 19 and over

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