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Robert Groslot, piano
The Belgian musician Robert Groslot was born in Mechelen and studied at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, winning national competitions for violin and for piano, as well as the first prize in the Alessandro Casagrande Piano Competition at Terni in 1974 and the award of laureate in the 1978 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition. He has enjoyed a busy career as a soloist with conductors of the greatest distinction throughout the world, in Europe, America and Asia, and has some fifty recordings to his credit. As a composer he has written some twenty works for various ensembles and is responsible for a larger number of orchestrations and arrangements. He has appeared as a conductor with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster National Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Flanders Philharmonic, among others, and is the chief conductor of the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Flanders and founder-director of the orchestra II Novecento.