The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel was inaugurated in 1939 to fulfil the Queen’s wish to support and encourage exceptional young talent. A centre of excellence for artistic training with an international dimension and influence, its teaching is reserved for high-level musicians in the disciplines of piano, violin, cello, viola, chamber music and singing.

Since 1950, it has hosted the twelve finalists of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition.

In 2004, the Music Chapel undertook a major reorganisation of its training and professional integration programme. Its artistic training is based on three pillars: openness, flexibility and excellence, with internationally renowned masters in residence.

The inauguration in 2015 of a new wing, successful both in terms of its architectural design and its surprising functional possibilities, now allows the Chapel to work openly in its laboratory and to develop a permanent musical effervescence.

It is thus turning a new page in its history by launching a season of public concerts in 2015-2016. This first season of 60 concerts gave impetus to all the other activities of the Chapel that followed.

Today, 10 years after this historic development, the Music Chapel management remains committed to developing infrastructure that respects the identity of the project and its historic site, while enabling the institution to offer an artistic programme of the highest standard, placing it among the world’s leading centres of musical excellence.

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