Claude Coppens is a Belgian pianist and composer.
Elisabeth of Bavaria was Queen of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 to 17 February 1934 as the wife of King Albert I, and a duchess in Bavaria by birth. She was the mother of King Leopold III of Belgium and of Queen Marie-José of Italy, and grandmother of kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium, and Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg.
The Queen Elisabeth Competition is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in Brussels. The competition is named after Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1876–1965). It is a competition for classical violinists, pianists, singers and cellists. It also used to hold international competitions for composers from 1953 to 2012. The current Patron is Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
Cécile Ousset is a French pianist.
Marcel Alfred Quinet was a Belgian composer and pianist.
Elisabeth Leonskaja is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was trained in the Russian school of piano. She made an international career after she won the Enesco International Piano Competition in Bucharest in 1964, and has lived in Vienna since 1978.
The Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation (QEMF) is a Belgian non-profit organization, founded in 1926 by Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Albert I. She founded the organization, based on her experience with the wounded from the front-line during the First World War. The foundation wants to encourage laboratory research and contacts between researchers and clinical practitioners, with a particular focus on neurosciences. The QEMF supports seventeen university teams throughout Belgium.
Anna Vinnitskaya is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
Marcel Michel, Baron Poot was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician.
Endre Granat is an American violinist. He is regarded as the most recorded violinist and concertmaster working in the studios today.
Svetlana Navasardyan, is an Armenian classical concert pianist.
Plamena Mangova is a classical pianist.
The second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, then known as Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, took place in Brussels from May 15 - May 31, 1938, and was the inaugural edition of its piano competition. It was won by Emil Gilels, whose sister Elizabeth had been awarded the 6th prize the previous year.
The fourth Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in Brussels in 1952. It was the second post-war edition of the competition, which had been resumed the previous year, and the second one devoted to piano, 14 years after the first one took place.
The sixth edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in 1955 and was the third one devoted to violin. The Soviet violin school couldn't attain a third victory after the successes of David Oistrakh in 1937 and Leonid Kogan in 1951 as Berl Senofsky managed to beat Julian Sitkovetsky. Senofsky remains the only American who has won the violin competition to date.
The eighth edition of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition took place in 1957 and was the second one devoted to composition. A specific format in two categories was implanted, and Polish composer Michał Spisak, who had won the inaugural edition, successfully defended the title in the chamber orchestra category.
Francisco Lara Tejero is a Spanish composer and conductor of classical music.
The 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition is the competition's 50th edition, comprising its 17th Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Competition and its 19th Composition Competition.
Marius Brenciu is a Romanian operatic tenor. He won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001.
David Lively is a French classical pianist of US origin.
Michał Spisak
Jean-Michel Defaye 
Carlo Franci
Alvin Etler 
Matthijs Vermeulen 
Makoto Moroi 
Yiannis Papaioannou 
Luctor Ponse
