Flore Levine-Cousyns

[2] Flore Levine studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp with Flor Alpaerts, August de Boeck (Harmony), Lodewijk Mortelmans (Contrepoint) and in the piano class of Émile Bosquet, for whom she kept a deep attachment for the rest of her life.

As a well-known Professor, she taught several generations of pianists among which, Lucette Alleman (see Bibliography), who obtained Virtuosity Prize of the Belgium Government in 1958 and became Laureate of the Concours international d'exécution musicale de Genève that same year.

As a Professor and as a Pedagogue, Flore Levine was highly appreciated by her students, to whom she conveyed respect and deep love for music.

The quality of the sound was essential and fundamental, based on a piano technique, using suppleness and a rebound technic from the keyboard, without ever ‘forcing’ the way of playing.

She possessed the art to express her observations and her critical comments about piano performance with a lot of precision, without ever hurting anyone and with a fine touch of humor.