Dirk Brossé

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Dirk Brossé (born February 18, 1960 in Ghent ) is a Belgian composer and conductor .

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Dirk Brossé began his musical training at the Music Academy with Georges Vanhoute , a trombonist of the Belgian military brass orchestra , the Groot Harmonieorkest van de Belgische Gidsen , who gave him essential impulses to focus on the subject of music professionally. He studied music theory , harmony , trumpet and piano at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent . Here he graduated with a diploma and then moved to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels , where he completed his studies in counterpoint and fugue . Further studies followed in orchestral conducting with Anton Kersjes and Lucas Vis , studies with Julius Kalmar completed his skills. François Glorieux , Frédéric Devreese and Leonard Bernstein as lecturers left a lasting impression. Finally, he studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Volker Wangenheim .

1974 and 1979 bring him to the United States of America as solo trumpeter with the National Youth Brass Band of Belgium and with the National Youth Orchestra of Belgium . In 1981 and 1983 he accompanied the World Youth Orchestra on its concert tours. Since 1984 he has appeared as a guest conductor in Chicago, Vienna, Cologne and Amsterdam. Since 1999 he has been artistic director of the Tokyo International Music Festival and the Flemish Film Festival. He founded the Trumpet Choir in Brussels.

Brossé is Professor of Conducting and Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and Artistic Director of the Brussels Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Belgium. He has conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra , the KBS Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), the World Symphony Orchestra (Japan), the Ulster Orchestra , the Camerata (Saint Petersburg), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra as well as the national orchestras of Venezuela , Colombia and Ecuador .

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1986 On Safari
  • 1990 Bacob Overture
  • 1991 Music in Mycology
  • 1992 Overture
  • 1995 Flanders International Film Festival Overture
  • 1995 Artesia - Symphony No. 1 for boy soprano, choir and orchestra
  • 1995 Daen's suite
  • 1996 bit by bit
  • 1996 Principals
  • 1996 Le Nozze di Sacco
  • 1997 The Birth of Music - Symphony No. 2 for orchestra and ethnic instruments
  • 1997 Light Main Theme
  • 1999 Millennium Overture
  • 1999 inferno

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1986 7 inch framed
  • 1987 Oscar for amnesty for speaker and symphonic wind orchestra
  • 1989 El Golpe Fatal
  • 1989 Elegy for a lost friend
  • 1992 La Soledad de America Latina for speaker, Colombian instruments and symphonic wind orchestra
  • 1992 Music for a Celebration
  • 1995 And the winner is ...
  • 1999 was Concerto for Clarinet and Symphonic Band
  • 1999 Elegy for clarinet or bass clarinet and clarinet choir
  • 2000 Milestone Overture
  • 2001 Kuifje - De Zonnetempel (German Tim and Struppi - The Temple of the Sun )

Works for voice and orchestra

  • 1994 Landuytcyclus for soprano and orchestra
  • 1995 La Vida es un Sueño for soprano and orchestra
  • 2000 Beauty to the Surface brought for soprano and orchestra
  • 2003 I loved you for soprano and orchestra

Oratorios

  • 2000 Juanelo Charles V oratorio for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra

Film music

Choral music

  • 2003 Cogito, Ergo Sum

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personal data
SURNAME Brossé, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent , Belgium