Liesbeth Lambrecht

Belgian violinist, born 1983. She started her musical career on the classical violin. After finishing her violin studies at the Conservatory in Antwerp in 2005, she started concentrating on the viola. In the classical field, she played as a soloist with orchestra in the Atterberg Suite, and she is freelancing in orchestras as the Belgian National Orchestra and the Flemish Opera. Liesbeth is mostly known outside the classical world. She is a member of Aranis (acoustic chamber rock) since 2003. She is also responsible for the artwork of some of their albums. In 2008, while being on tour with Aranis, she met the progressive rock drummer David Kerman on a festival in Portugal. This was the start of a good friendship and cooperation in other projects like Present, or 5UU'S, for which Kerman composed new music, with violin and viola. Since 2012 Liesbeth immersed herself in the world of tango music with the group Quinteto Astor. In this band she plays violin, viola but also the ‘Stroh-violin’, a violin without resonance box but with a horn. Since 2015 she also plays in the Orquesta Tipica Belgica, a traditional tango-orchestra based in Antwerp. She is a regular guest in Sweden with the progressive rock group Isildurs Bane since 2011. Since she met folk violinist Wouter Vandenabeele in 2015, the two like to work together as well. She became a member of Olla Vogala on the anniversary concert of the band which was recorded live in Gent in 2016. Liesbeth also works continuously in contemporary music projects. She plays violin and viola in Tiptoe Company, since 2016 an ‘ensemble in residence’ with the Antwerp based production company ChampdAction. Furthermore, she freelances from baroque over progressive rock to contemporary classic and tango music. In 2016 Liesbeth also joined the new Flairck.