Daan Janssens

Né à Bruges en 1983, Daan Janssens étudie le violon, le piano et la théorie musicale à l’académie de Bruges puis la composition au Conservatoire royal de Gand. Il suit des cours de composition (Marco Stroppa, Isabel Mundry) et de direction (Ensemble Modern Seminar, Johannes Kalitzke). Son quatuor à cordes ...Passages... remporte le Premier Prix de la Semaine de la musique contemporaine de Gand (2006). Son œuvre (...nuit cassée.) est retenue pour les ISCM world music days (Suède, 2009). Sa musique est jouée par les ensembles Spectra, ARSIS4 et des solistes tel Jean-Guihen Queyras à Flagey, Ars Musica, festival Transit. Chercheur au Conservatoire royal de Gand, il dirige l’ensemble Nadar. Daan Janssens (Bruges,1983) studied violin, piano and music theory at the Bruges music academy. Between 2002 and 2007 he studied composition and conducting at the Ghent Royal Conservatory with Frank Nuyts, Filip Rathé and Godfried -Willem Raes. In 2006, his string quartet ...Passages... (2005) won the first prize at the Week of Contempory Music (Ghent, 2006). His composition (…nuit cassée.) was selected for the ISCM world music days 2009 in Sweden. His music has been performed at the TRANSIT festival (Leuven, 2005 & 2008), De Link (Tilburg, 2007), De Bijloke, De Nieuwe Reeks (Leuven), Ars Musica 2009… He has worked with ensembles including the Goeyvaerts strijktrio, Blindman junior [4x4] strings, the Spectra ensemble, and soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras. Beside his activities as composer, he is conductor of the young ensemble for new music Nadar. Since 2007, He works as researcher at the University College Ghent.