CELLO

Born in Brussels, Belgium, on November 3, 1984, Sarah Dupriez has been surrounded by music from her first appearance in the world.
 
She was 15 when she entered the Brussels Royal Conservatory in the cello class of Marie Hallynck, where she got the "Premier Prix" and got the Licence of Cello with the grade “Magna cum Laude”. 
At the same time, she studied in Toulouse (France) with Lluis Claret for one year and got involved in chamber music lessons in the Queen Elisabeth College of Music. After her studies in Brussels, she went to Helsinki, in Finland and got in Sibelius Academy.  There, she was the pupil of Martti Rousi and graduated in june 2009 with the grade "Excellent". She got the same grade for Cello Pedagogy and for Chamber music.
She also completed a special degree for music education at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium and a soloist diploma in Hamburg under Professor Arto Noras.
 
In music competitions, she was runner-up in the Axion Classics competition (2000) and second prize in the Concours franco-belge de Violoncelle de Woluwé-Saint-Pierre (2002). Sarah was also awarded a diploma for her participation in the Belgian Lions Club International Musical Interpretation Competition in 2003, and in 2007, she won the national competition for Belgian cellists organized by Rotary Club, the “Servais competition”. In 2012, she wins the 3d Prize of the International Elise Meyer Competition for cello.
 
Sarah has been warmly encouraged in her career as solo cellist during master classes with a number of leading international cellists, including Suzanna Moses (Indiana), Maria Kliegel (Köln), François Guye (Geneva), Jeroen Reuling (Brussels-Amsterdam), Mark Drobinski (Russia), Lluis Claret (Barcelona), Antonio Meneses (Brazil-Switzerland), Gary Hoffmann...
 
In January 2007, she played her debut as a soloist in the prestigious Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Since then, she was invited to play solo recitals everywhere. Unless she is still young, Sarah has played a wide range of solo pieces for cello, including Couperin’s Pièces en Concert with the Hasselt Youth Orchestra; Vivaldi’s Double Cello Concerto, which Sarah played with her teacher Marie Hallynck and the Charlemagne Orchestra; several times the Concerto for Cello in B Major by Boccherini, with the Chapelle de Tournai; the Concerto for Cello by Eugen d’Albert, with the Ensemble Orchestral Laetare, as well as the Quadruple Concerto Caro Luigi by Kristof Meyer, with the Russian orchestra of Novossibirsk, conducted by Alexandr Polishchuk. For this occasion, Sarah was invited to open the 2003 Villars Festival as soloist together with Mark Drobinski. In 2013, she plays Dvorak Concerto many times, in Hamburg (Germany), Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve(Belgium), Latvia...
 
Among a number of chamber music concerts, Sarah had the opportunity to play with internationally known musicians as Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Lorenzo Gatto, Éliane Reyes, Dominique Cornil, Thérèse-Marie Gilissen,Véronique Bogaerts ... She plays regularly in chamber music festivals like Seneffe, Aulne, Enghien, Mont-sur-Marchienne, (Belgium), Casals Festival in Prades and Ravel Festival in Saint-Jean de Luz (France), Villars Festival (Switzerland), Vlissingen City Concerten (Holland)...
 
In the field of orchestral music, in addition to her responsibilities with the orchestra of the Brussels Conservatory and with Sibelius Academy orchestra’s projects, Sarah took part in many other orchestras, like Finnish national opera orchestra, Finn culture’s orchestra, Ensemble Musique Nouvelles’ orchestra...

Sarah Dupriez teaches  Cello and Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatory to prepare pre-professionals. She also teaches Cello at the Eduardo Del Pueyo Center of Music in Brussels and she is member of the Suzuki Association of Brussels. She is also a music theory and culture teacher in Uccle.
 
As a French-speaker from Brussels, Sarah speaks as well Dutch and English. She also learned Finnish and German during her studies abroad.