The Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni, Classical Guitar Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), enjoys a truly international career, both as a performing artist and as a pedagogue, performing extensively in Europe, Russia, North and South America and the far East, both as recitalist and soloist.
She was the founder and chair of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division (where she also taught for 10 years), an adjunct professor at the Columbia University as well as Artist –in-Residence with San Francisco Performances where for 5 years she gave semi-annual performances, master classes and workshops for a diverse group of students and audiences. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awarded her with the honorary position of Associate Professor (ARAM).
As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has a long and in-depth experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs.
Italian-born and Brussels-based guitarist, researcher, and pedagogue, Luca Isolani dedicates his focus to exploring the heritage of folk idioms within the classical guitar repertoire. Residing in the capital of Europe, Luca actively engages in various international projects spanning classical, jazz, pop, and folk music, such as Duo Isolani, Del Sablon, Lô Trézou, Tsiribim.
Together with Antigoni Goni and Maarten Vandenbemden, Luca forms the Volterra Project Trio. In 2023 the trio released their debut album, "Medio Siglo" and presented it at the 50° Guitar Foundation of America in New York.
Brussels-based Maarten Vandenbemden (°1994) was born in a house full of guitars. As a soloist and as a member of various chamber music groups, he has performed from Lithuania to Jordan, and from the USA to China. Since 2018, Maarten is the fourth member of Four Aces Guitar Quartet with whom he recorded two albums, the latter one (“Plan BE”, 2023) was completely dedicated to own arrangements of Belgian music through the ages.
With Antigoni Goni and Luca Isolani, Maarten forms the Volterra Project Trio, that released its first album “Medio Siglo – a tribute to the art and sound of José L. Romanillos” in 2023 and a second, “Parole in Musica”, with Naxos in May 2025.
This year, the second pillar of our core curriculum, the classes of Business of Music, will be held by the full guitar Faculty, which will provide an overview of the fundamental “career skills”, which today musicians and the music self-entrepreneurs need to deal with in order to advance in their career.
Music Physiology
Corentin Delpierre
Corentin Delpierre is a Belgian dancer, choreographer and teacher whose practice spans performance, pedagogy and community-making. He came to the performing arts through the Lecoq method, before training at the Institut Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Brussels from 2008, where he immersed himself in eurhythmics, physical expression and active pedagogy. It was there that he encountered contemporary dance — through choreographers Michèle Swennen and Roxane Huilmand — and knew immediately it would define his path.
Heather Goldenhersh is a film, television, and theatre American actress who has worked steadily across stage and screen for more than three decades. Her film credits include *Hail, Caesar!* (Universal Pictures), *Leather heads*, *Kinsey*, *School of Rock*, *Nicholas Nickleby*, and *The Merchant of Venice*, along with a mix of independent films and studio projects. She has had the good fortune of collaborating with directors such as Ethan and Joel Coen, George Clooney, Bill Condon, and Richard Linklater.