Wim Van Hasselt is a Belgian musician, currently based in Switzerland, performing regularly in Europe, North and South America and Asia. He has been invited as a soloist with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Sophia Philharmonic and the Budapest Festival Orchestra among others, appearing at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.

For many years he was a member of the trumpet section of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Prior to this he held the same position with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Playing under such renowned conductors as Mariss Jansons, Bernhard Haitink, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Ivan Fischer, Lorin Maazel, Andris Nelsons, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann and Claudio Abbado proved to be crucial to his musical development.

Besides his solo performances he places a central focus on chamber music – most recently as a founding member of the international brass quintet Brass United , and in the duo ART’uur with percussionist Koen Plaetinck.

Wim van Hasselt Trumpet
Photo: Marco Borggreve

Wim Van Hasselt has released several albums for Channel Classics Records, which have received numerous awards, including the Prix de Salon from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as wel as an Editor’s Choice from the renowned Gramophone magazine, which described him as „an exceptionally fine player with all the equipment in his armoury to delight, surprise and challenge the listener at every turn“. His recordings are characterized by their versatility and inquisitiveness, and notable for connecting tradition and modernity, including commissions of new compositions by Wim Henderickx, Florian Magnus Maier, Daniel Wohl, Nicole Lizée, Derek Bourgeois and Markus Stockhausen, among others.