[MuCH: Abel Hox, Maxim Calver]

The Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Waterloo has long been regarded as an international benchmark for exceptional young musical talent. After completing programmes at leading conservatoires, many promising musicians choose to refine their artistic development there. It is therefore hardly surprising that the Queen Elisabeth Chapel is a regular source of laureates and finalists in the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

But you don’t have to wait for a competition to discover these musicians live. Through MuCH (short for Music Chapel), young artists from the Elisabeth Chapel are given the opportunity to stand on the stage regularly and gain valuable concert experience. Casco Phil has been a regular partner in this for several seasons now. Together, they present a repertoire that often marks an important step in young soloists’ artistic growth, ranging from demanding concertos to lesser-known gems.

This season, Casco Phil is accompanying pianist Abel Hox and cellist Maxim Calver. With Beethoven’s lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto and Schumann’s passionate Cello Concerto, they present themselves as two promising voices of a new generation of musicians, ready to claim their place on the international concert stage.