Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden entered the Conservatoire Royal de musique de Bruxelles at age 12, studying under Eduardo Del Pueyo until the end of his training at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. He was only 16 when he was proclaimed a laureate of the 1964 Queen Elisabeth Competition. He has performed along many symphony orchestras, including the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Residentie Orkest in The Hague and several Belgian orchestras. He has worked with such conductors as Paul Kletzky, Rudolf Barshai and Yuri Temirkanov. As a chamber musician, he has played with Belgian and international partners, including Véronique Bogaerts, Marie Hallynck, Augustin Dumay, Silvia Marcovici, Michaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Gérard Caussé, Frans Helmerson, Michel Strauss, José Van Dam and Walter Boeykens as well as the Enesco Quartet, Melos Quartet, Quatuor Ysaÿe and César Franck Ensemble. He is currently an honorary professor at the Conservatoire de Bruxelles, Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and artistic director of the Eduardo Del Pueyo Music Centre.