Bart Van Beneden teaches Saxophone and Chamber Music at LUCA School of Arts – Campus Lemmens and Saxophone Ensemble at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. As a member of the Scarbo Saxophone Quartet with Asagi Ito, Pieter Pellens, and Nele Tiebout, he won Supernova 2018 and continues to explore innovative cross-disciplinary projects. He has performed with leading ensembles such as La Monnaie, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, and I Solisti del Vento.

​

As a soloist, Bart won the World Music International Soloist Competition in Kerkrade (2011) and 3rd Prize at the Golden Saxophone Competition in Odessa (2015). With the Anemos Saxophone Quartet, he won several major chamber music prizes including the Youth’n Classic Award, the Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, and the European Chamber Music Competition in Luxembourg.

​

Trained as a conductor at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with Maestro Robin Engelen, Bart has since built a growing career on the podium. He has worked with the South Denmark Philharmonic under Jorma Panula, the Berliner Sinfonietta, the Belgrade Philharmonic String Orchestra, and Ars Musica’s contemporary opera productions.

 

He is Chief Conductor of both the Kortrijks Symfonisch Orkest and the Universitair Symfonisch Orkest Leuven (USO),  With these orchestras, he combines core symphonic repertoire with new projects that bring young musicians and audiences into dialogue with today’s cultural landscape.