Hans Ryckelynck .
Hans Ryckelynck has built up an excellent reputation as a piano pedagogue. He is a piano teacher at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons and an assistant piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. He studied piano with Johan Duijck at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent and at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he graduated summa cum laude. From 1995 to 1999 he completed his studies in Paris with Abdel Rahman El Bacha. He obtained a master's degree in music writing at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. As a soloist and chambrist he can be heard regularly in Belgium and he has also given concerts in Luxembourg, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, China and Japan. His discography includes some fifteen CD recordings, including a great deal of piano music by Joseph Jongen. These recordings were very well received nationally and internationally.