I am perplexed because if I have always wanted to defend the cultural actors (music, painting, literature, dance, theater, etc...) without forgetting the scientific personalities of our Federation, if I have always wanted to discover and help young musicians at the dawn of their career as performer or composer, I have almost never worried about what concerns me.
This is probably what has always guided me at the RTBF but also in teaching or music criticism or when I created a section of Jeunesses Musicales in Jodoigne or the Musical Festival of Nivelles, today integrated in the Festival of Wallonia, Walloon Brabant.
The Festival de Wallonie, which trusted me to appoint me as administrator and president of the artistic council.
At the RTBF, it was the same wish to make discover music and not only the so-called "classical" music since I animated for a long time a weekly broadcast of extra-European music and, before passing to Musique3, programmed the morning slice of Canal-21 (jazz, French song and rock), ancestor of Classic 21 then Vivacité. Without forgetting during my years at the Orchestra and Choir Department and the concerts with soloists and composers from our country, for example: the production of the last two "Reconnaissance des Musiques modernes" (today taken over by "Ars Musica") and "Biennale de Musique belge" (fifteen days dedicated to our composers). And then the ten years or so in which I participated in the work of the "International Rostrum of Composers" which, at the time, took place in the UNESCO buildings in Paris.
It is with the same will to "share" music that I taught for a long time (higher education, in academies and also at the dance school of the City of Brussels. This sharing continues today, especially during the almost monthly conferences for the Royal Opera of Wallonia (DiscOpéra).
More recently, it is my involvement in the cultural activities of my village (Walhain) and in particular the development of its medieval castle. Without forgetting the participation in the Music Commissions (classical and contemporary, help to projects), of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallonia-Brussels International.
All this after having studied singing (Frédéric Anspach) and piano (André Dumortier), and then Art History and Archaeology (musicology) at the ULB.
And finally... and above all... the musical composition that I learned with Marcel Quinet, my wonderful teacher.
It has always been my ideal since my childhood, even if the years at RTBF led me to put it on the back burner. She who, as a faithful companion, came back into my life, like a new little happiness! The joy of writing, the joy of sharing my music with performers and listeners.