Upcoming concerts:
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​Highlights in 2016-2017: Concert tour to Iran &  Tadzjikistan with duo Shiraz, Beethoven versus Belgian Music:
​the 9 symphonies of L.v. Beethoven on violin and piano in combination with 35 Belgian works. 

You are now listening to: 
"Beethoven versus Belgische muziek" L.v. Beethoven (arr. Hans Sitt) Symfonie nr. 1 2nd movement, Wim Henderickx Suite, Charles De Beriot Scène de Ballet op.100 played by Ann Vancoillie & Pieter Dhoore

          ."There is geometry in the humming of the strings,  there is music in the spacing of the spheres."  
          Pythagoras ........

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Ann Vancoillie is a Master in Performing Arts (KASK) and a multi-skilled, multi-talented musician, who performs in all styles from baroque music up to contemporary music, including improvisation in different styles. She prefers to use different instruments for different styles. She plays a baroque violin made by Marco Anedda, her second baroque violin (anonymus +- 1680), her modern violin made by Carlo Giuseppe Oddone, and her electric Zeta violin. Her bows are made by Groppe, Raspanti, Schüster and J.B. Vuillaume.  She studied in Brussels,Ghent and Salzburg with Kati Sebestyen, André Gertler, Henri Raudales, Sandor Vègh, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and the Hagen quartet. She was concertmaster of the New Flemish Orchestra, the Conservatory orchestra and the World Youth Orchestera, was leader of the second violins in the Mahler chamber orchestra, played baroque violin in Les Musiciens du Louvre, Le Concert D'Anvers, Octopus, Ex Tempore and played e.o. contemporary music in Champs d'action, Logos and as a soloist. She's now soloist first violin in the Flemish opera of Ghent and Antwerpen. Ann is very busy with her chamber music formations, Duo Vancoillie - Dhoore "Beethoven versus Belgian Music", with her duo/trio Shiraz (concert tours and teaching in Belgium, Iran, Tazjikistan...), with "A touch of Latin", violin/guitar, her jazz formations, her duo violin/harpe, violin/piano, violin/action painting, string quartet, violin/ethnic instruments and baroque violin e.a. with Liselotte Sels, Les Musiciens du Louvre, le Concert d'Anvers and les Goûts authentiques.
Being in love with music, her creative spirit leads her constantly to new interesting projects, contacts and cooperation  with musicians of different fields, composers, writers, actors, poets, improvisers, open minded creative artists. Very recently she was selected as Belgian violinist to play in the World Peace Orchestra with 21 musicians of the United Nations representing their country in South-Korea. She performed as a soloïst in the military Camp Greaves and with the WPO, and as a leader of the second violins in Busan and in the Dorasan Station, the DMZ that divides North-Korea from South-Korea.

​Grateful to the teachers she had: http://www.annvancoillie.com/my-teachers.html

Biografie in het Nederlands: http://www.annvancoillie.com/biografie-nederlands.html

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........."Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”  Plato .........