Stefan Prins

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Stefan Prins
Born (1979-05-20) 20 May 1979 (age 44)
Kortrijk, Belgium
Genres Contemporary, electronic
Occupation(s)Composer
Instrument(s)laptop, interfaces, piano
Labels Sub Rosa, Kairos
Website stefanprins.be

Stefan Prins (born 20 May 1979) is a Belgian composer and performer. [1]

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Biography

Studies

Born in Kortrijk, Stefan Prins studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp from which he holds a master's degree (2009) and specialized in sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (2005). In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at Harvard University under the supervision of Chaya Czernowin. [2]

He also graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in electrotechnical engineering specialising in photonics (2002).

Career

Stefan Prins's music has been performed in numerous international music festivals and concert series such as Donaueschingen Festival (Germany), [3] Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), ECLAT Festival (Stuttgart), Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Germany), Züricher Tage für Neue Musik (Switzerland), ISCM World Music Days (Wroclaw, Poland), Deutschlandfunk Forum Neue Musik (Köln, Germany), University of Haifa (Israel), Imatronic ZKM (Karlsruhe), Under the Radar Festival (Omaha, USA), Moscow International House of Music (Russia), Wien Modern (Austria), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway), Ars Musica (Belgium), Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki (Finland), Installactions (Warsaw), Tzlil Meudcan (Tel Aviv), Mata Interval Series (NYC), Kesselhaus (Berlin, Germany), Nowy Teatr Warschau (Poland), Musica Viva (München), Rainy Days Festival (Luxemburg), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Impuls Festival (Austria), Konzerthaus, Vienna (Austria), Transit Festival (Belgium), Festival Musica Strasbourg (France), Luzerne Festival (Switzerland).

Many ensembles and musicians have performed his music such as Nadar Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Nikel, Ensemble Mosaik, Trio Accanto, Champ d'Action, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Dal Niente, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, L'Arsenale, Zwerm Electric Guitar Quartet, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Chris Wild, Frederik Croene, Matthias Koole, Tom Pauwels, Mark Knoop, Gwen Rouger, Stéphane Ginsburgh, Sebastian Berweck, Séverine Ballon, and many more.

Stefan Prins is co-artistic director of Nadar Ensemble, [4] founding member (live-electronics) of the ensemble Ministry of Bad Decisions, with Brian Archinal and Yaron Deutsch, and founding member (2001) of instant composed trio collectief reFLEXible.

He's guest-professor composition at the Hochschule für Kunste Bern (2018 onwards), Norwegian Academy for Music Oslo (2019–2020) and is appointed professor for composition and head of the Studio for Electronic Music at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria Von Weber" Dresden (March 2020 onwards).

Prizes

Selected compositions

Selected recordings

Selected bibliography

About Stefan Prins

By Stefan Prins

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References

  1. ↑ Flanders Music Center Stefan Prins
  2. ↑ Harvard Group for New Music
  3. ↑ Alex Ross in The New Yorker
  4. ↑ Nadar Ensemble
  5. ↑ Akademie der Künste
  6. ↑ ISCM Archived 11 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "Laureaten van de Academie – Klasse Kunsten | Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten". www.kvab.be. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  8. ↑ Bozar
  9. ↑ Kranichsteiner Musikpreis
  10. ↑ Staubach Honorarium Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ International Impuls Composition Award
  12. ↑ "STEFAN PRINS: Augmented (CD & DVD)". KAIROS. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "Nikel – A Decade".
  14. ↑ "AUDIO & VIDEO – ChampdAction". www.champdaction.be. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  15. ↑ "NEOS Music | your online shop for contemporary music, jazz and special classics". neos-music.com. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  16. ↑ "Funambules – album plus booklet". deutsch (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  17. ↑ Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012
  18. ↑ Sub Rosa
  19. ↑ Amirani Records
  20. ↑ Dissonance
  21. ↑ Tempo
  22. ↑ "Corps Hybrides dans les Espaces Hybrides".
  23. ↑ "MusikTexte 145".
  24. ↑ "Darmstaedter Beitraege zur Neuen Musik Band 22".
  25. ↑ "Composing Today" (PDF).
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