Belgian violin virtuoso Mathieu Crickboom was born on this day in 1871. Mr Crickboom served a longterm teaching position on faculty at the Brussels Conservatoire - and

Congolese-Belgian violinist and conductor Georges Octors has passed away - aged 97.   A graduate of the Brussels Conservatoire, where he studied with Mathieu Crickboom and Maurice Raskin, Mr Octors