Annelien Van Wauwe

She has won numerous international competitions and performs with top international orchestras and as a sought-after soloist at international festivals, but is also active in chamber music with her own ensemble. Several works have been composed especially for her. She is also a principal teacher for historical and modern clarinet at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp. She lives in Mechelen, Belgien.

• Name — Annelien Van Wauwe • Born — 1987 • Birthplace — Hamme, Belgium • Education — * Musikhochschule Lübeck • Paris Conservatory • Accademia di Santa Cecilia • Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler • Occupation — * Classical clarinetist • Academic teacher • Organizations — Ensemble Carousel, Brussels • Website — http: www.annelienvanwauwe.com/ • Awards — 2nd prize of ARD International Music Competition, 1st prizes of international competitions in Turin, Brussels, Lisbon, Revereto, Oldenburg and Berlin • Module3 — Performances per Year approximately 35 Agency

Van Wauwe was born in Hamme, Belgium. She began playing the clarinet at the age of 8. After completing secondary school in 2004, she began her training as a professional clarinetist at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Sabine Meyer at the age of 17. After graduating there, she continued her education at the Paris Conservatory for music and dance with Pascal Moraguès in 2009 and from January 2010 at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Alessandro Carbonare and then at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Ralf Forster, solo-clarinetist of Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Wenzel Fuchs and completed a master class in Los Angeles with Yehuda Gilad. In the field of historical performance practice, she studied classical clarinet at the Paris Conservatory with Eric Hoeprich and at the Musikhochschule Trossingen with Ernst Schlader. Her studies have been supported by numerous grants from Belgian and foreign foundations and societies. During her education Annelien van Wauwe played in the Junge Belgische Philhamonie, the Jeugd en Muziekorkest Antwerp, the Niederländisches Jugendorchester, the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach and 2010 as principal clarinetist in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Herbert Blomstedt. In 2018, she was appointed lecturer for historical and modern clarinet at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (part of the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen).

Van Wauwe has appeared as a soloist in major European concert halls, such as the Tonhalle Zürich, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall in London. She has performed with orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brussels Philharmonic. In 2018 she performed on a modern basset clarinet the Clarinet Concerto (Mozart) with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard during a live broadcast on radio and television worldwide BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, London. In early 2019 she appeared in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Van Wauwe has regularly appeared at international festivals including the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Kissinger Sommer, and the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier. In 2017, Manfred Trojahn dedicated his Sonata V to her, which she premiered in Zurich and recorded for BBC Radio 3. She is also active in the field of chamber music and was one of the co-founders of the Brussels chamber music ensemble Carousel in 2018. Van Wauwe is an ambitious yoga enthusiast. She believes that her yoga exercises have a "positive influence on her clarinet playing". Her practice of the discipline led to a specially commissioned concerto based on breathing and meditation by composer Wim Henderickx. It was co-commissioned by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and BBC Radio 3. This clarinet concerto called SUTRA "will be a spiritual meditation in which extreme virtuosity is coupled with an intense musical experience. Passages of peace, meditation and silence are combined with violent outbursts."

Van Wauwe regularly gives masterclasses and teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She is a juror at international music competitions.

Van Wauwe plays Vintage clarinets in Bflat and A by Buffet Crampon, optimized by a German clarinet maker (low E improvement added). She performs the Mozart Concerto, like many solo clarinetists today, on a modern basset clarinet, a Prestige by Buffet Crampon.

Annelien Van Wauwe resides in Mechelen, Belgium.