JEANNE STARK-IOCHMANS graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with the highest marks of the previous 20 years and received the conservatory’s most coveted award: The Prix de Virtuosite avec Grande Distinction. Born in Belgium, Ms. Stark-Iochmans won the Laure Van Cutsem Prize, appeared as soloist with her country’s national orchestra and was selected to represent Belgium at an international festival of modern music in Bayreuth. An International Queen Elisabeth scholarship brought Ms. Stark-Iochmans to the United States for advanced study with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Edwine Behre.

Following a highly acclaimed debut in New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, Ms. Stark-Iochmans has delighted audiences in France, Canada, Mexico, Belgium and the United States. She has given recitals and appeared with the New Haven Symphony, with the Boston Civic Orchestra, in Virginia, in New York’s Town Hall and on WNYC in New York. She has also performed extensively with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, including a performance of Messiaen’s Turangalila with Kent Nagano conducting. For several years, Ms. Stark-Iochmans served as both teacher and performer in the festivals at Montauroux in Southern France and was a member of the Adamant Summer Piano School in Vermont. Ms. Stark-Iochmans has served at Bryn Mawr College as guest lecturer on the works of Olivier Messiaen and was Assistant Music Director for Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at Bryn Mawr.

With Today’s Artists Concerts’ Distinguished Artists Series in San Francisco, she has performed Mozart’s Concerto No. 23, K. 488 under the baton of Kermit Moore, and Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Urs Schneider, both with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, and several solo recitals. In 1985, she performed a solo recital program at Carnegie Recital Hall and gave recitals at Alice Tully Hall in 1988 and 1992, both also under the auspices of Today’s Artists Concerts. In 1996, she performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Alice Tully Hall, under the auspices of Four Seasons Concerts and in 2001, she was presented in her Carnegie Hall debut recital also under the auspices of Four Seasons Concerts.

For 23 years, Ms. Stark-Iochmans has been Artist-in-Residence at Four Seasons Concerts’ Yachats Music Festival in Yachats, Oregon. She performs regularly with Four Seasons, and played Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Auditorium in 1995 and the last three sonatas of Beethoven in 1996.

In 2002, Ms. Stark-Iochmans performed a recital at the University of Istanbul in Turkey.

Ms. Stark-Iochmans can be heard on Arch Records’ label in Debussy’s Preludes, Books I and II. Also available are her CD recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, of Beethoven’s Last Three Sonatas, Op. 109, 110 and 111, of Debussy Etudes and of Debussy Preludes, Book II..