Frank Bernaerts
Frank Bernaerts (born February 28, 1967 in Willebroek , Belgium ) is a Belgian composer , conductor and musician .
At the age of eight he began his music studies at the Municipal Music Academy of Willebroek in the subjects of sheet music, music history , and piano. He later studied cornet with Frans Violet and piano with Christa Steenhuyse-Vandevelde and William Peeters . Furthermore, he played in the brass band Willebroek from 1979 to 1986. There he practiced further training, and his newly composed works were first performed by the brass band Willebroek.
In 1981 he studied privately with Jan Seger's theory of harmony . In 1985 he began studying music at the Conservatory in Mechelen , Belgium. In 1986 he switched to the music education department at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven , where he studied composition , harmony and music theory with Lode Dieltiens and Karel De Wolf . In the same year he won the international composition competition Flores Iuventutis in Ghent with the wind orchestra work Dreaming . After completing his studies, he founded his own music publishing house, Bernaerts Music , in which he published numerous arrangements of popular works for wind orchestra.
Compositions
- Dreaming , 1986
- Intro Spectacular , 1991
- This is brass! , 1996
- World Fever , 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang and Armin Suppan: The new lexicon of brass music , Blasmusikverlag Schulz, Freiburg / Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
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| SURNAME | Bernaerts, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian composer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Willebroek , Belgium |