Thomas Eeckhout

Thomas Eeckhout was born in 1992 and started studying piano at the age of eight at the music academy in Gent with Rolande Spanoghe. At the age of eighteen, he started his studies with Levente Kende, Nikolaas Kende and Heidi Hendrickx at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he also took courses in pianoforte with Piet Kuijken and vocal accompaniment with Lucienne Van Deyck and Jozef De Beenhouwer. In 2016, he graduated with great distinction.

In October 2019, soprano Lisa Willems and he were finalists in the Paola Salomon-Lindbergcompetition in Berlin. In September 2020, he commenced postgraduate studies in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Piano Accompaniment Prize. His teachers are Caroline Palmer and Bretton Brown. In October 2021, he made his debut at Oxford Lieder Festival, performing Thomas Adès’s Five Eliot Landscapes with soprano Ellie Neate. In September 2022, he became a junior Fellow at Guildhall. Together with George Robarts he won the second prize in the John Kerr competition. In May 2024, soprano Theano Papadaki and he won third prize at the International Lied Competition Bolko Von Hochberg. In 2025-2026, George Robarts and he will be Young Artists at Oxford International Song Festival. He will also be performing at the Ludlow Song Festival and Konzerthaus Berlin.

Updated September 2024