Evelyne Brancart

Evelyne Brancart is a Belgium-born American pianist. In 1968, she was invited to study in the Chapelle Musicale de la Reine Elisabeth where she became a laureate in 1971. Later, she was awarded a gold medal from the Belgian Government in 1978. She performed throughout Europe, America, Asia and South America, including at London's Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1976, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and in 1982 at New York’s Alice Tully Hall. She won prizes at the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition (1975), Montreal International Piano Competition (1976), Viotti International Piano Competition (1979) and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1986). Brancart also received an ensemble division prize in the ARD International Music Competition (Munich, 1984). Brancart has been a professor of music (piano) at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington since 1994; and she served as the piano department chair from 2002 to 2012.