Damien Pardoen was born in Nivelles (Belgium) in 1974 and from a child he studied the violin with Yaga Siwy at the Music Academies of Nivelles and Brussels. He enrolls at the Royal Music Conservatoire of Brussels in 1989 taking lessons for two years with Agustin Leon Ara. It was however in Philippe Koch’s class at the Royal Conservatoires of Mons and Liège that he will obtain both his first prize and his higher diploma violin. He will serve his apprenticeship of chamber music with André Siwy at the Royal Music Conservatoire of Brussels. In 1997 he received his diploma civil engineer with first honours at the Catholic University of Louvain.

He was awarded several prizes in Belgium and abroad (such as the Axion Classics competition, the International Music Concours of Vienna) and extended this laudatory track in receiving the Peleman Prize for promoting and promulgating Belgian music.

Enwreathed in chamber music he regularly performs all over Europe in four-violin quartets, in trio or duet. His first CD release in 2000 together with pianist Stéphane De May (Fibonacci Production/ FIBO-002) was devoted to postmodern music.

Today, he is a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg.

Damien Pardoen plays a magnificent Cremona violin built in 1694 by Francesco Ruggieri.