Geert Verschaeve

Дирижер

Geert Verschaeve studied at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, where he obtained a first prize for trombone and chamber music. After his studies, he was a solo-trombonist at the Flemish Opera, but not long after he had taken this position, he decided to follow another course and became a teacher. Currently he is still a teacher of brass and jazz at the Academy of Music of Harelbeke and teacher trombone, tuba, trumpet at the Kunsthumaniora of Ghent. He also works a lot as a freelance trombonist in various Belgian orchestras, including the Beethoven Academy, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège and I Fiamminghi. Since 1985 he is conductor of the Royal Harmony Orchestra „Vooruit“ in Harelbeke, with which he made numerous successes at home and abroad. He recently retired from that position and is now working hard with the Jeugdharmonie Vooruit.