Belgian composer and performer (born 1979)
Musical artist
Stefan Prins (born 20 May 1979) is a Belgian composer and performer.[1]
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
- Kunstpreis Berlin für Musik (2016)[5]
- ISCM Young Composers Award (2014)[6]
- Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium of Sciences and Arts, class of the Arts (2014)[7]
- Adelbert W. Sprague Prize for "Generation Kill", Harvard University (2014)
- Young Belgian Musician of the Year (2012)[8]
- Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition (Darmstadt, 2010)[9]
- Staubach Honorarium (2009, Darmstadt)[10]
- International Impuls Composition Award (Graz, 2009)[11]
- Week of the Contemporary Music (Gent, 2006, 2nd Prize)
- KBC Aquarius Composition Award for Young Composers (Brussels, 2001)
