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Hailed for his passionate and virtuosic piano playing by the East Hampton Star, celebrated Belgian pianist Stijn De Cock maintains an active musical career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teaching artist in the US and abroad. His playing has been described as “alternating between the stormy and sublime, while getting to the heart of the music” and was praised for its ability to create “a most compelling musical narrative" (Amalfi Festival concert review).
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In recent years, Dr. De Cock’s concert seasons have included concerts on four continents, from the US to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Including this current season, Dr. De Cock will have appeared in the US, Kenya, China (Hong-Kong), Taiwan, Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Spain, in solo, concerto, chamber, and collaborative capacities. He has performed inprestigious music festivals around the world, a selection of which include the Amalfi Coast International Music and Arts Festival, PianoTexas, Pianofest in the Hamptons, the XIV NewSound Festival, the Interventions New Music Festival at the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, and the Gijón International Piano Festival. Dr. De Cock has also been a major prize winner in multiple competitions, including the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Ann Arbor Society for Musical Arts Young Artist Competition, the Poland International Music Festival Piano Competition and the Prix des Jeunes and Lions Club music competitions in Belgium.
As a sought after teaching artist, Dr. De Cock has presented masterclasses and lecture-recitals at the Amalfi Coast International Music and Arts Festival in Naples, Amalfi, and Maiori, Italy, the Charles University in Prague, the Pardubice Conservatory in the Czech Republic, Tangaza College and the Conservatoire de Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya, Wah Yan College and Lasalle College in Hong-Kong, China. Dr. De Cock has taught and held faculty positions at the State University of New York Fredonia, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, the University of Michigan, Schoolcraft College, and Albion College. He presently serves on the piano faculty of Florida State University.
As a student, Dr. De Cock was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels at the unusually young age of fifteen in the studio of Evgeny Moguilevsky. He was trained in the tradition of Russian pianism, as Moguilevky himself is a former student of Moscow Conservatory's legendary teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus, whose formidable students included Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, and Radu Lupu. Dr. De Cock graduated from the Royal Conservatory with a Premier Prix, and holds a Master’s Degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, which he pursued under tutelage of Logan Skelton. Dr. De Cock has also received guidance from artists such as Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, Yehoved Kaplinsky, Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, Boris Slutsky, Malcolm Bilson, Martin Katz, Margot Garrett, and Marilyn Horne.
Dr. De Cock is currently working on a recording project with celebrated soprano Jennifer Goltz, recording a collection of artsongs by 20th-century Jewish-American composer Ignatz Waghalter. Dr. De Cock is an active member of the American Liszt Society, the College Music Society, and MTNA. His students have won prizes at state and international piano competitions, gained admission to competitive undergraduate and graduate college programs and participated in international music festivals. Together with his wife Sarah (mezzo-soprano), Dr. De Cock organizes and presents benefit and community outreach recitals in churches and community centers in Michigan and New York.
As a sought after teaching artist, Dr. De Cock has presented masterclasses and lecture-recitals at the Amalfi Coast International Music and Arts Festival in Naples, Amalfi, and Maiori, Italy, the Charles University in Prague, the Pardubice Conservatory in the Czech Republic, Tangaza College and the Conservatoire de Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya, Wah Yan College and Lasalle College in Hong-Kong, China. Dr. De Cock has taught and held faculty positions at the State University of New York Fredonia, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, the University of Michigan, Schoolcraft College, and Albion College. He presently serves on the piano faculty of Florida State University.
As a student, Dr. De Cock was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels at the unusually young age of fifteen in the studio of Evgeny Moguilevsky. He was trained in the tradition of Russian pianism, as Moguilevky himself is a former student of Moscow Conservatory's legendary teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus, whose formidable students included Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, and Radu Lupu. Dr. De Cock graduated from the Royal Conservatory with a Premier Prix, and holds a Master’s Degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, which he pursued under tutelage of Logan Skelton. Dr. De Cock has also received guidance from artists such as Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, Yehoved Kaplinsky, Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, Boris Slutsky, Malcolm Bilson, Martin Katz, Margot Garrett, and Marilyn Horne.
Dr. De Cock is currently working on a recording project with celebrated soprano Jennifer Goltz, recording a collection of artsongs by 20th-century Jewish-American composer Ignatz Waghalter. Dr. De Cock is an active member of the American Liszt Society, the College Music Society, and MTNA. His students have won prizes at state and international piano competitions, gained admission to competitive undergraduate and graduate college programs and participated in international music festivals. Together with his wife Sarah (mezzo-soprano), Dr. De Cock organizes and presents benefit and community outreach recitals in churches and community centers in Michigan and New York.