Sébastien Vanlerberghe

Sébastien Vanlerberghe was born in 1973 in Calais. He studied oboe at the Academy of Saint-Omer before moving to the Conservatoire National de Région de Lille at the age of nineteen. There he obtained First Prize in oboe in the class of A. Calliéret and First Prize chamber music in 1996. He studied musicology at the University of Lille and obtained a First Prize oboe in Paris in the class of J.L. Capezzali. Sébastien Vanlerberghe is a laureate of the European Music Competition of Picardy (1995) and of the International Competition of the UFAM (Paris, 1996). He has performed on a regular basis with the Amadeus chamber orchestra (tours in Canada, Norway, China and Japan), with the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National d'Ile de France.

Since January 2002, he has been second soloist oboe and English horn at the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.