Roel Dieltiens
In the words of his own website, cellist Roel Dieltiens "is not a 'star.' He is a discrete artist, open to discovery by his audience, a seeker who combines utmost thoroughness with great integrity and a passion for music." Noted for a breadth of interests that spreads from early music to mainstream repertory to contemporary compositions to ethnic music, Dieltiens has been responsible for choice performances and recordings in northwestern Europe and beyond.
Dieltiens was born in 1956 in Antwerp, Belgium. His father, Lode Dieltiens, was a choral composer, educator, and organist in Antwerp. Dieltiens studied the piano as a child, became disillusioned with it, and took up the cello at his brother's urging. With renewed musical energy, he studied at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth in Waterloo and at Antwerp's Royal Flemish Conservatory, going on for lessons with Pierre Fournier in Switzerland and for postgraduate degrees at the Akademie für Solisten in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Dieltiens has performed cello concertos under the leading lights of the Dutch historical performance movement: Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, and Reinbert de Leeuw. He has also given the world premieres of contemporary works by Luc Van Hove and by composer William Bolcom.
Dieltiens' recording career began in 1995 with an album of concertos by Tartini, released on the Harmonia Mundi label. He has continued to record for that label as well as for MDG, Etcetera, and Alpha labels, among others, receiving the French Choc de Classica and Diapason d'Or awards along the way. In 2017, he was part of a chamber group that released the album Bach Privat on Alpha. Dieltiens performs on both Baroque and contemporary cellos, and he has worked with the traditional music group Muzikás as well as with his own chamber group, Ensemble Explorations. Dieltiens is on the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich in Switzerland, and he has taught at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, Belgium. In 2019, he released an album of the complete cello concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, playing and conducting the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. In 2022, he joined fortepianist Andreas Staier for a recording of Beethoven's Op. 102 cello sonatas in period style. By that time, his recording catalog comprised some 30 items.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bach Privat
Andreas Staier, Anna Lucia Richter, Petra Müllejans, Roel Dieltiens
Chamber Music - Released by Alpha Classics on Sep 1, 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20 & Romance Sans Paroles
Frank Braley, Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Dec 2, 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
Roel Dieltiens, Orchestra Of The 18th Century
Classical - Released by Glossa on Oct 18, 2019
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi & Geminiani : Sonatas for Cello & b.c.
Classical - Released by Accent on Jan 1, 1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rossini: Une larme
Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jun 13, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Cello In Baroque Italy (Gabrielli, Geminiani, Vivaldi)
Roel Dieltiens, Richte van der Meer, Anthony Woodrow, Konrad Junghänel, Robert Kohnen
Classical - Released by Accent on May 12, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rossini : Une larme
Ensemble Explorations and Roel Dieltiens
Chamber Music - Released by harmonia mundi on Jun 13, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Boccherini: Quintettes avec deux violoncelles
Roel Dieltiens, Ensemble Explorations
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jul 31, 2007
4 étoiles Classica16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Complete Cello Suites
Classical - Released by Etcetera on Jun 1, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Franchomme: Le violoncelle virtuose
Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Dec 24, 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Music - GABRIELLI, D. / BONONCINI, G. / SCARLATTI, A. / FESCH, W.
Roel Dieltiens, Richte van der Meer, Konrad Junghänel, Robert Kohnen
Chamber Music - Released by Accent on Sep 1, 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Quartets for Flute, Viola, Cello and Pianoforte
Jan De Winne, Marten Boeken, Roel Dieltiens, Shalev Ad El
Classical - Released by Passacaille on Jul 18, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Suites pour violoncelle seul (Intégrale)
Classical - Released by Accent on Jan 1, 1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Musik an westfälischen Adelshöfen, Vol. 2
Dirk Vermeulen, Roel Dieltiens, Eckart Sellheim
Classical - Released by Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG) on Sep 1, 1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Volume 1
Brussels Philharmonic, Roel Dieltiens, Silveer Van den Broeck
Classical - Released by Marco-Polo on Jul 7, 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Sonaten Op. 120 & Trio Op. 114
Walter Boeykens, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Roel Dieltiens
Classical - Released by Ricercar on Jan 1, 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Sonatas & Trio
Walter Boeykens, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Roel Dieltiens
Classical - Released by Outhere on Jan 1, 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo