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Conductor and Music Director
Bartholomeus-Henri Van de Velde, dynamic founding music director of the Charlemagne Orchestra, has led the orchestra in acclaimed performances throughout Brussels, Luxembourg and Holland in such venues as the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Théâtre de la Monnaie, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Maestro Van de Velde has enjoyed great success as guest conductor of orchestras around the world, most notably the Hungarian Philharmonic in Budapest, the National Orchestra of Mexico, the Czech Chamber Orchestra, the Dubna Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra in Japan, the Flint Symphony Orchestra and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra in the United States, the Deutsche Kammerakademie, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Xalapa, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphonic Orchestra Serbia and the Slovak Sinfonietta for their 2004 European Tour.
From the time of his debut as a conductor, Maestro Van de Velde has collaborated with such great artists as Mstislav Rostropovitch, Nobuko Imai, Yuzuko Horigome, Liviu Prunaru, Olga Pasichnyk, Marie McMaughlin, Edna Stern, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Karine Lechner, Sandrine Cantoreggi, Ronald Vanspaendonck, Veronique Bogaerts, Stephen Salters, Iwona Sobotka, Eugenio Toussaint and Martin Cousin.
Maestro Van de Velde and the Charlemagne Orchestra have recorded the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, Shostakovitch’s Kammersinfonie, and violin and piano concerti of Mendelssohn with Katchatour Almazian, violin and Martin Cousin, piano for the SONORIS label. Maestro Van de Velde was selected as a Rolex Artist Ambassador in 2005 and has appeared in the prestigious watchmaker’s print advertising campaign since that time. He was also selected for another Ambassadorship during 2008 by the car manufacturer BMW.
Bartholomeus-Henri Van de Velde began his professional career in music as a violinist in his native Belgium. He studied conducting at The Pierre Monteux School for Advanced Conductors and at the Tanglewood Center for the Arts, with such renowned teachers as Charles Bruck, Seiji Ozawa, Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Jorma Panula and under the personal direction of Lorin Maazel.
