Alice Van Leuven is a sought-after violinist currently based in Brussels. Recognized as one of Klara Radio's "Twintigers" (promising talents in their twenties) in 2021, Alice has gained prominence as both a soloist and chamber musician, performing extensively in Belgium and internationally. She is equally passionate about teaching and performing, believing in the mutual enrichment of these two roles. In October 2024, she was appointed to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels' chamber music department and began teaching violin at LUCA School of Arts in Leuven.
An active chamber musician, Alice has been first violinist of Quatuor Alfama (2021–2026) and is a founding member of Trio Aries, winner of the Supernova Classics Chamber Music Competition (2020). With both ensembles, she has performed extensively in Belgium and abroad, appearing at major festivals and concert halls across Europe. She regularly performs as guest concertmaster with the chamber orchestra Casco Phil and the Etesiane Ensemble. Alice's recordings have been broadcast on RBBKultur, France Musique, Klara, and Musiq3, and she has appeared on several Belgian television programs.
Despite her young age, Alice has already performed at numerous prestigious international music festivals, including Yellow Barn (USA), Pacific Music Festival (JP) Festival Resonances, Klara Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, and others across Europe. She has collaborated in chamber music formations with esteemed artists such as Aleksandar Madžar, Gilbert Kalish, Alasdair Beatson, Liza Ferschtman, Anthony Marwood, Maria Włoszczowska, Katharine Gowers, Ivan Karizna, Marie Hallynck and Timothy Ridout, among many others.
Composer Frederik Neyrinck dedicated his solo violin piece "Echo de Cleves" to Alice, which she premiered in June 2020 in Bozar’s Henry Leboeuf Hall. This successful collaboration led to her involvement in Neyrinck's opera Kruistocht at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, where she performed a solo part. As a soloist, Alice has also performed with orchestras such as the Brussels Conservatory Orchestra, Brussels Sinfonietta, and the Orchestre de Chambre de la Néthen. She is a laureate of several competitions, including the Belfius Classics, where she won first prizes in both the violin and chamber music categories, and was a finalist in the 2015 Young Belgian Talent Competition.
Alice holds a master’s degree from the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she studied violin with Mark Gothoni and chamber music with the Artemis Quartet. Before that, she trained with Philippe Graffin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and with Susanna Yoko Henkel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. Alice remains profoundly grateful to her early mentors, Alain Meulemans and Erik Sluys, who nurtured her development from her first steps with the violin through to conservatory level. Over the course of her studies, she had the privilege of participating in masterclasses with distinguished artists such as Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Antje Weithaas, Andras Keller, and Barnabas Kelemen at prestigious festivals including IMS Prussia Cove (UK), Les Rencontres Musicales Internationales d’Enghien, and the Bartók Seminar in Hungary. Alice has always had a deep passion for string quartet performance, benefitting from the expert guidance of members of the Doric, Belcea, Casals, Danel, and Prazak String Quartets.
