Royal Conservatory of Brussels

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Royal Conservatory of Brussels

Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (French) Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Dutch)
Royal Conservatory of Brussels
Type	Public Higher School of Arts (French-speaking entity) School of Arts under Erasmus University College (Dutch-speaking entity)
Established	1813
Affiliation	WBE (French-speaking entity) EhB (Dutch-speaking entity)
Director	Jan d’Haene (Flemish entity) Olivia Wahnon da Oliveira (French entity)
Location	Brussels , Belgium
Website	www.kcb.be/en (Flemish entity) www.conservatoire.be (French entity)

The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (French: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Dutch: Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) is a historic conservatory in Brussels, Belgium. Starting its activities in 1813, it received its official name in 1832. Providing performing music and drama courses, the institution became renowned partly because of the international reputation of its successive directors such as François-Joseph Fétis, François-Auguste Gevaert, Edgar Tinel, Joseph Jongen and Marcel Poot, but more because it has been attended by many of the top musicians, actors and artists in Belgium such as Arthur Grumiaux, José Van Dam, Sigiswald Kuijken, Josse De Pauw, Luk van Mello and Luk De Konink. Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, also studied at the Brussels Conservatory.

In 1967, the institution split into two separate entities: the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, which teaches in Dutch, and the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, which continued teaching in French. While the French-speaking entity remained an independent public institution of higher education (École supérieure des arts), the Flemish entity integrated into the newly created Erasmus University College as one of its Schools of Arts.