Viviane Spanoghe’s career started in 1975, when she won a prize at the Dexia Bank’s “Axion Classics” competition. Her student journeys led her from Courtrai to Ghent with her teacher André Messens, later to Essen’s Folkwang Musikhochschule, where she studied with Maria Kliegel, at the time assistant to János Starker, who took charge of her finishing studies in 1979 at the Indiana University’s Music department in Bloomington.