UYTTENHOVE, Yolande

A native of Leuze, Uyttenhove studied music at the Brussels Conservatory, and gained in addition a licentiate diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. She received numerous international awards for piano and composition, and placed in competitions in Barcelona, Viotti, and Paris (Concours international de composition Lutèce). Her music owed much to that of the Romantics, especially Gabriel Fauré, and borrowed from medieval traditions as well; it was enhanced through modern harmonic structures. Her own name for this style of composition was "intemporel".

Yolande Uyttenhove composed more than two hundred works. She graduated from the Vercelli (Italy) International Contest for Composition. Her sonata for violin and piano (op. 95) was awarded the golden medal from the Lutèce International Contest for Composition in Paris.