WIELE, Paula Van De

Paula Van de Wiele studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. A typing instructor at the Athénée Jean d'Avesnes, she enrolled at the Carillon School of Mons in 1960. She earned her carillon diploma in 1962 and her virtuoso artist diploma in 1964. She then enrolled at Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, where she took classes for a year, then at the
Conservatory of Music in Tourcoing, where she graduated in 1974 with the State Carillonneur diploma, before being proclaimed a laureate of the superior course in 1975. Her campanological career was particularly eventful: co-titular carillonist of the City of Mons since 1969, titular carillonist of that of the City of Brussels since 1981, and that of Charleroi since 1986; she was co-founder of and a pivotal figure in the Association Catiau Montois et Carillons de Mons, for which she was the foremost performer of the Queen Fabiola mobile carillon, inaugurated in 1989.

She gave numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad, including four tours of the United States. She participated in various radio and television programs and recorded an album of the
carillon of Mons.