Julien Libeer

Although he declined to participate in the usual round of international competitions, pianist Julien Libeer gained widespread attention in the 2010s. Libeer has promoted his music in other ways: on Belgian television and radio, on his own YouTube channel, and in presentations in which he teams up with speakers from various fields. Libeer was born in the Brussels area in 1987. Around age four, he heard Leonard Bernstein's recording of his musical West Side Story, and, he asks rhetorically, "Is it possible to see Bernstein at work and not believe that making music is the greate...