Composers

Mounir Anastas

<p>Anastas, Mounir (b. 1963, Bethlehem). Palestinian composer, now resident in France, of mostly chamber works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere. Mr. Anastas studied piano as a child in Bethlehem ... Read more

Miguel Azguime

Composer, poet, and percussionist, he founded the Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. The Mi... Read more

Harold Barreiro

Composer (USA/Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles). Read more

Richard Barrett

Born in 1959 in Swansea, Wales, Richard Barrett gained an honours degree in Genetics and Microbiology from UCL before studying composition privately with Peter Wiegold and also at Darmstadt with Brian Ferneyhough and ... Read more

Pierre Bartholomée

Pierre Bartholomée was born in Brussels in 1937. He began studying the piano at the age of six. He is a laureate of the Royal Brussels Conservatory, where his piano teacher was André Dumortier and where he won many pr... Read more

Pierre Berthet

Born in 1958, lives in Liège, Belgium Designs and builds sound objects and installations (steel, plastic, water, magnetic fields,…). Presents them in exhibitions and solo performances since 1988 mostly in Holland, ... Read more

Philippe Boesmans

Boesmans was born in Tongeren and studied piano at the Conservatory in Liège, where he was also introduced to serial composing techniques by Pierre Froidebise. However, it was only after coming into contact with the &... Read more

Denis Bosse

Composer and teacher born in Bordeaux in 1960, Denis Bosse has lived in Belgium since 1989 and the major part of his musical activity takes place there. After studying science, entering the Bordeaux Regional Conservat... Read more

Jean-Yves Bosseur

Né en 1947 à Paris. Etudes de composition à la Rheinische Musikschule de Cologne (Allemagne) avec Karlheinz Stockhausen et Henri Pousseur, Doctorat d'État (philosophie esthétique) à l'Université de Paris I. ... Read more

Luc Brewaeys

Luc Brewaeys est né en 1959 à Mortsel (Belgique). Il a étudié la composition avec André LAPORTE à Bruxelles, avec Franco DONATONI à Sienne (Italie) et avec Brian FERNEYHOUGH à Darmstadt (Allemagne). De 1980 à 84 il a ... Read more

Raphaël Cendo

Born in 1975, Raphaël Cendo studied piano and then composition at the Paris Music Teacher Training School, where he obtained his degree in 2000. He entered the Higher National Conservatoire in Paris in 2003 and worked... Read more

Paulo Chagas

Professor Chagas was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and is composer, theoretician and researcher in music technology. Professor Chagas has composed more than 100 pieces - ballet music, operas, musical theater work... Read more

Kee Yong Chong

Chong Kee Yong, Malaysia's leading contemporary music composer, is one of the most exciting voices in new music today. Few composers can manage to fashion a truly individual sound from the experimental techniques... Read more

Cédric Dambrain

Cédric Dambrain a étudié la composition électroacoustique au conservatoire de Mons, dans la classe d’Annette Vande Gorne, et a obtenu son diplôme en 2003. Divers stages sont venus compléter sa formation: spatialisatio... Read more

Kris Defoort

Kris Defoort (1959) studied recorder and early music at the Antwerp Conservatory (Barthold Kuijken, Koen Dieltiens, Jos Van Immerseel, Balderick Deerenberg) and jazzpiano, composition and free improvisation at the Liè... Read more

Jean-Pierre Deleuze

<p>N&eacute; &agrave; Ath en 1954,&nbsp;Jean-Pierre Deleuze&nbsp;poursuit ses &eacute;tudes musicales au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. De 1981 &agrave; 1986, il travaille l&rsquo;... Read more

Wolfgang Delnui

Wolfgang Delnui (Belgium) is born in 1977 in Aachen, Germany. Education He studied eurhythmics at the Institut de Rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze in Brussels. He then studied composition with Robert HP Platz at the Maas... Read more

Tony Di Napoli

Born in Mont-St Martin (France), September 9, 1967. In 1989 he began studying sculpture at the College of Arts St Luc in Liège (Belgium), with Prof. Antoinette Francotte. Soon, he was attracted by the stone that b... Read more

Roberto Doati

Roberto Doati (Genova, 1953). His musical activity starts at the age of 18 with free improvisation experiences as double-bass player and immediately after with tape music. By chance he meets Germano Celant and atte... Read more

Gilles Doneux

Né à Ottignies (Belgique) en 1985, Gilles Doneux commence très tôt l'apprentissage de la musique. En 2005 il se tourne vers la composition et entre au Conservatoire Royal de Mons. Il y obtient en 2010 un master... Read more

Jean-Luc Fafchamps

Jean-Luc Fafchamps (1960) is a pianist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire in Mons and at Louvain University. A member of the Ictus Ensemble, he has taken part in many concert performances in large ensembles... Read more

Michel Fourgon

Michel Fourgon est né à Liège en 1968. Après avoir terminé ses études musicales au Conservatoire Royal de Liège (où il obtient, notamment, un Premier Prix de Musique électroacoustique dans la classe de Patrick Lenfant... Read more

Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar est né en 1934 à Anderny (France) de parents slovènes. De l'âge de 13 à 21 ans, il vit à Ljubjana (Slovénie, à l'époque en Yougoslavie) où il débute comme tromboniste de jazz. Une bourse lui p... Read more

Gilles Gobert

Études au Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Mons pour les cours d’analyse, harmonie écrite, contrepoint, direction de chœur et, dans la classe de Claude Ledoux pour la composition et l’orchestration. Stages d’analy... Read more

Christophe Havel

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Gaëlle Hyernaux

Gaëlle Hyernaux fait ses débuts en composition un peu par hasard lors de son cursus en guitare classique à l'Imep (Namur),auprès de Maria-Nieves Mohino : à la demande de Georges Bouché , professeur d'écritur... Read more

Igor Kefalidis

Igor Kefalidis (b. 1941) - Composer and Pianist, Member of Union of Russian Composers; of Associations of Contemporary and Electronic music (Moscow); of Studio LIGYS (Paris) studied at Moscow State Conservatory by Pro... Read more

Claude Ledoux

Claude LEDOUX is born in 1960. After obtaining a scientific diploma, he turned to the artisitic world and studied painting at the Fine-Arts School and music at the Conservatoire de Liege (Belgium) where he met Jean-Lo... Read more

Patrick Lefant

Né à Paris en 1945. Sa rencontre avec l’univers musical électroacoustique et plus particulièrement « mixte » fut déterminante pour ses orientations ultérieures. Tout en menant une activité d’organiste il entreprit un... Read more

Philippe Libois

La biographie de Philippe Libois pourrait se résumer en deux mots: éclectisme et pluridisciplinarité. Après avoir mené en parallèle l’étude des mathématiques, de la physique et une formation en musique classique, i... Read more

Philipp Maintz

Philipp Maintz is one of the most promising composers of the young generation. After the great acclaim of his string quartet, INNER CIRCLE, premiered in 2004 at the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik by the Arditti Quartet,... Read more

Rytis Mažulis

Rytis Mažulis is one of the most distinctive Lithuanian composers, representing super-minimalist trend in Lithuanian music, taking into account always the same repetitive principles, supplemented with new ideas close ... Read more

Elena Mendoza

Elena Mendoza was born in Sevilla in 1973, whre she studied german linguistics. She then studied piano and composition in Zaragoza with Teresa Catalán, in Augsburg with John Van Buren, in Düsseldorf with Manfred Troja... Read more

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence... Read more

Lorenzo Pagliei

Lorenzo Pagliei étudie le piano, la composition, la musique électronique et la direction d’orchestre en Italie. Il reçoit les enseignements d’Azio Corghi, Ivan Vandor, Giorgio Nottoli et Salvatore Sciarrino. Il obtien... Read more

Robert H.P. Platz

Robert H.P. Platz (born 16 August 1951, Baden-Baden) is a German classical composer. Platz studied music theory, composition (with Wolfgang Fortner), musicology (with Elmar Budde) and piano in Freiburg, Germany bet... Read more

Henri Pousseur

Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano... Read more

Stefan Prins

The tension between his activities as a composer and a performer/improviser (prepared piano, live-electronics) is one essential aspect of Stefan Prins’s musical evolution (Belgium, 1979). His interest in contemporary ... Read more

Jean-Marie Rens

Jean-Marie Rens studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with J-C Bartsoen and Marcel Quinet. After graduating in composition, fugue and counterpoint, he specialized with O. Messiaen, P. Boulez and T. Takemitsu.... Read more

André Ristic

André Ristic (born 19 December 1972) is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work Catalog... Read more

Catherine Seba

Catherine Seba was born in the year 1982 in Liège (Belgium). After she learned classical piano, she quickly bends to improvisation, mixed composition and hard rock. She holds a composition and electronic music degree ... Read more

Matthew Shlomowitz

Matthew Shlomowitz (b. 1975) is a composer of concert music and performance pieces. Raised in Adelaide, Australia, he now lives in London where he lectures at the Royal College of Music and Syracuse University London ... Read more

Daniel Hugo Sprintz

Composer and composition professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Badajoz-España. http://danielsprintz.blogspot.com/ Read more

Nicolas Vérin

In today's music Nicolas Vérin has an original and unusual voice. Pop guitarist at thirteen, jazz pianist but also a student in physics and musicology at Paris Universities, and in music at the Conservatories ... Read more

Bob Verschueren

Born in Brussels on 23rd October 1945, Bob VERSCHUEREN is a self-taught artist. With great humour, love and respect, he has become a « sculptor of the ephemeral » and a dream builder. Since 1978, Bob VERSCHUEREN has b... Read more

Sarah Wéry

Sarah Wéry est née en 1987. Elle aborde la musique grâce au violoncelle, et s’intéresse très vite à l'improvisation. Ses professeurs, tels Hubert Bergman et Véronique Delmelle, l’aident à trouver plus sa voie mus... Read more

Franck Christoph Yeznikian

Born in 1969 in Besançon, Franck Christoph Yeznikian began percussion as part of a group in 1984, before taking various classes at the National Conservatories (CDR) of Besançon, Dijon (improvisation on piano with J. -... Read more