Vincent Bruyninckx

Biography

Born in Namur in 1974, he studied classical piano with Véronique Moureaux and jazz with Thierry Smets and Nathalie Loriers, then in the class of Eric Legnini at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. He completed his musical education with courses and workshops in musical analysis, composition, chamber music, and improvisation. His curiosity and diversified background, as he also holds a degree in physics, led him very early on to approach music from multiple perspectives, both stylistic and technical, including computing, acoustics and sound synthesis, and neuroscience.

He is active on the Belgian and international jazz scene, notably accompanying the project Tribute to Toots Thielemans, Fred Delplancq, Laurent Doumont, the Jazz Station Big Band, Stéphane Mercier, the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Fabrice Alleman with the Orchestre de Chambre de Liège, Phil Abraham, Gino Lattuca, Richard Rousselet, Jeanfrançois Prins, Bruno Castellucci, Bobby Shew, Benoît Vanderstraeten, Daniel Romeo, and Paco Sery. Long interested in chamber and contemporary music, he is an occasional collaborator with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. His career also includes regular ventures into pop music and song. He performs regularly in European venues, from the Netherlands to Turkey, and beyond, including the United States, the Middle East, and Asia. He currently teaches jazz, alongside Eric Legnini, and acoustics at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, as well as jazz piano at the Académie de Forest.