Cello Works

Marie Hallynck's designation as a 'Rising Star' by the European Association of Concert Halls in 2000, then as 'Musician of the Year' by the Belgian Musical Press Union in 2001, have confirmed her position as one of the most promising talents of her generation. She now appears in such prestigious venues as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Marie Hallynck possesses joint French and Belgian nationality. She began her studies in Paris with Reine Flachot, before joining Edmond Baert's class at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of fourteen. There she was awarded a brilliant First Prize at the end of her first year. She then became a resident artist at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth, and went on to advanced study with János Starker at Bloomington, Indiana (USA), and Natalia Gutman at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. Of the many distinctions she has received (First Prizes in the competitions at Paris, Brussels, Ghent, Eindhoven, honours diplomas from the Salzburg and Siena Academies), it is her prize in the celebrated Eurovision Contest (in 1992) that marked the beginning of her international career. The next year she became a laureate of the Fondation de la Vocation, and in 1996 a Juventus laureate.
Her concert schedule has already taken her across Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. She is a regular guest artist with some thirty orchestras (among them the Deutches Kammerorchester Berlin, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and Radio Symfonieorkest Hilversum), and has recorded the concertos of Henri Vieuxtemps with the Orchestre National de Belgique under Theodor Guschlbauer. Her commitment to chamber music has led to appearances with such artists as Vadim Repin, Martha Argerich, José Van Dam, Isabelle Faust, Ivry Gitlis, Gérard Caussé, the Quatuor Ysaÿe, Jean-Claude Van den Eynden, Cédric Tiberghien and Alexandre Melnikov.
Marie Hallynck was appointed Professor of Violoncello at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music at the early age of twenty-five.
She plays an instrument built by the Venetian maker Matteo Goffriller in 1717.