Denis Sungho Janssens made his 2005 Carnegie Hall début in New York as a “Rising Star” of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO). Since winning first prize at the age of fourteen in Belgium’s national Young Talent competition, he has appeared on the main stages of the world, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and concert halls in Vienna, Salzburg, Birmingham, Stockholm, Athens, Brussels, Paris, and Cologne. He has appeared in festivals including the Musik Triennale in Cologne, and with ensembles including the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has broadcast on French and Belgian radio, and appeared on South Korean television.
His recordings include works by Leo Brouwer, Piazzolla, Bach, Ponce, Turina, Ginastera, and Assad, with a duo album with Boris Gaquere. As a music laureate of the Fondation Belge de la Vocation and a passionate advocate of all repertoires of music, he has given premières of several works by young composers such as Jean-Michel Gillard, Santiago Abadia, Jean-Marie Rens and Nicolas Bacri, who dedicated to him his Sérénade mélancolique. Denis Sungho’s main teacher was Odair Assad at the Conservatoire of Mons. He also studied with Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris and with Sergio Assad at the Brussels Conservatoire. He plays a Thomas Humphrey guitar.