Cello

Maaike Organe (Leuven °1979)

Cello lessons are possible from the age of 4 years old.

Lessons can be followed in English, Dutch or French.

Contact Maaike: 0472 89 07 56 – mailto:maaikeorgane@hotmail.com

Career

Maaike Organe took her first cello lessons at the ‘Hagelandse academie voor muziek en woord’ with Koen Hellemond, where she graduated summa cum laude. She then studied at the IMEP (Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie) in Namur with Marie Hallynck and Alain Denis, at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp with Ilja Laporev and at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Didier Poskin and Claudine Steenackers. She graduated as ‘master in music’ in 2005 for cello en chamber Music. She also followed international master classes with Edmond Carlier, Julius Stenzel, Bernard Woltèche (baroque cello), Francois Guy (Switzerland) and Jeroen Reuling (Holland). She also had the opportunity to play in orchestras with directors such as Ivo Venkov, Robert Groslot, Norbert Nozy and many others. She teaches the cello at the ‘Hagelandse academie van Diest- Aarschot’ since 2001.

Maaike performed on big stages (AB, Rock Werchter, Sportpaleis Antwerp, …) with famous artists such as Rod Steward, Toots Tielemans, the Simple Minds and many others. She is a freelance musician in Belgium and abroad (member of il novecento, under contract with the VRT, Flemish Radio and Television). She also plays regularly with chamber Music ensembles for “Muziek Vrouwen en Verhalen” (Music, Women and Stories), a mix of Music and Theatre played in the Flemish Cultural Centres, with “The Bruxelles celli ensemble” and since 2008 with the AiA-strings, a young and dynamic string quartet.

Maaike Organe is also a classical singer (mezzo). She started to take singing lessons in 2000 with Patricia Van Heuckolom, to continue at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven with Lieve Jansen. Maaike took a master class with Ian Patridge in the summer of 2008.