Nuestro Equipo

Otto Derolez is concertmaster of Brussels Philharmonic and is generally considered one of the most important violinists of Belgium. After brilliant studies at the Royal Conservatories of Ghent and Brussels, with Professors such as Rudolf Werthen, Katy Sebestyen and Philippe Hirschhorn, he graduated at the Internationale Musikakademie für Solisten (IMAS) in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, under the guidance of Professor Andre Gertler. He also received support and guidance from Prof. Yfrah Neaman. 

He has been touring the world, with soloistic performances in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Cité de la Musique, London Cadogan Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Tokyo Opera, the Concert Halls of Osaka, Beijing and Taipei and many more.

He made his debut with Brussels Philharmonic in 1999, with Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. With this orchestra Otto Derolez performed the world premiere of Jeroen d’Hoe’s violin concerto. Another World Premiere followed, the Violin Concerto of Michel Tabachnik, “Genèse”, dedicated to and performed by Otto Derolez and Brussels PHilharmonic, under the baton of the composer, acclaimed huge successes as well.  He is also a very active chamber musician. From 1992 he has been member of the Prometheus Ensemble, with which he recorded Schubert’s Octet and Trout Quintet, Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat, Schoenberg’s first Chamber Symphony and Transfigured Night. Otto Derolez is a jury member of the International Verbier Festival Orchestra, as well as the International Violin Competition Henri Vieuxtemps. He is regularly invited as String Faculty Coach of Symphony Orchestras of Belgian and Dutch Major Music Conservatories.

In 2012, Leon Spierer, ex-concertmaster of Berlin Philharmonic, proposed Otto Derolez to become a Faculty Professor at YOA-Orchestra of the Americas. After very succesful projects in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Otto Derolez will be active in Puebla and Tlaxcala, Mexico in summer 2019.

Since 2018 Otto Derolez is guest Concertmaster at KBS Korean Broadcast Symphony Orchestra.