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

Biography

Studies

Born in

Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; or ''Kortrik''; ), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of We ...

, Stefan Prins studied

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp from which he holds a master's degree (2009) and specialized in

sonology Sonology is a neologism used to describe the study of sound in a variety of disciplines. In medicine, the term is used in the field of magingto describe the practice of medical ultrasonography. According to some scholars, sonology may represent a ...

at the

Royal Conservatory of The Hague The Royal Conservatoire (, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Netherlands. Since September 2021, t ...

(2005). In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

under the supervision of Chaya Czernowin. He also graduated from the

Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dutch language, Dutch, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch- and English-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has four campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engine ...

and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in electrotechnical engineering specialising in

photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...

(2002).

Career

Stefan Prins's music has been performed in numerous international music festivals and concert series such as Donaueschingen Festival (Germany),

Darmstädter Ferienkurse Darmstädter Ferienkurse ("Darmstadt Summer Course") is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1946, under the name "Ferienkurse für Internationale Neue Musik Darmstadt" (Vacation Co ...

(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 The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...

(Israel), Imatronic ZKM (Karlsruhe),

Under the Radar Festival The Under the Radar Festival is an internationally-sourced experimental theater festival based in New York City, founded in 2005 by Mark Russell. Russell was the former Artistic Director of P.S. 122 for over twenty years, Guest Artistic Director ...

(Omaha, USA),

Moscow International House of Music The Moscow International Performing Arts Centre was officially opened on September 28, 2003 with the debut of a new orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia under musical director Vladimir Spivakov. Also known as the Moscow International ...

(Russia),

Wien Modern Wien Modern is a modern music festival in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Claudio Abbado in 1988. It was created with the intent of revitalizing the traditional music scene of Vienna. Friedrich Cerha, Johannes Maria Staud, Mark Andre, Wolfg ...

(Austria),

Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival is a Norwegian music festival for contemporary music. Background Ultima is Scandinavia's largest contemporary music festival, and since 1991 it has been a key arena for contemporary music and related art ...

(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 The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and ...

(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 The Klangforum Wien is an Austrian chamber orchestra, based in Vienna at the Konzerthaus, which specialises in contemporary classical music. Founded by composer and conductor Beat Furrer in 1985, it is run on collective principles, having no o ...

, 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, 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 th
Hochschule für Kunste Bern
(2018 onwards), Norwegian Academy for Music Oslo (2019–2020) and is appointe
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) * ISCM Young Composers Award (2014) * Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium of Sciences and Arts, class of the Arts (2014) * Adelbert W. Sprague Prize for "Generation Kill", Harvard University (2014) * Young Belgian Musician of the Year (2012) * Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition (Darmstadt, 2010) * Staubach Honorarium (2009, Darmstadt) * International Impuls Composition Award (Graz, 2009) * Week of the Contemporary Music (Gent, 2006, 2nd Prize) * KBC Aquarius Composition Award for Young Composers (Brussels, 2001)

Selected compositions

* ''under_current'' 020-2021(36') for e-guitar, orchestra & live-electronics / premiered by Yaron Deutsch, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Ilan Volkov, sound-engineer Florian Bogner at Donaueschinger Musiktage, 15 October 2021 *''Third Space'' 016–2018(80') for 10 musicians, live-electronics & live-video, collaboration wit
Daniel Linehan
/ premiered by

and dance compan
Hiatus
at Münchener Biennale für Neues Musiktheater 2018, 4 May 2018, München *''Piano Hero #4'' 016–2017(12') for midi-keyboard, live-electronics and live-video / premiered by Stephane Ginsburgh at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, 25 March 2017, Gent * ''Piano Hero #3''

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(25') for piano, midi-keyboard and live electronics / premiered by Stephane Ginsburgh in July 2016 at

*''Mirror Box Extensions'' 014–2015(35') for 7 instruments, live-electronics & live-video / premiered by Nadar Ensemble a
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015
17 October 2015, Donaueschingen *''Mirror Box'' (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)

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(22') for tenor saxophone, percussion, piano & live-electronics / premiered by Trio Accanto at Eclat Festival, 6 February 2014, Stuttgart * ''Flesh+Prosthesis No. 0, 1, 2'' 013–14(16') for tenor saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar & live-electronics / premiered by Nikel Ensemble * ''Generation Kill''

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(25') for percussion, electric guitar, violin, cello, 4 musicians with game controllers, 4 video-projections, live-video / premiered in October 2012 by Nadar Ensemble at Donaueschingen Festival * ''Piano Hero #2'' 011, rev. 2013, 2016(8') for amplified piano, midi-keyboard, live-electronics and video / premiered by Mark Knoop in November 2011 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival * ''Piano Hero #1'' 011(8') for midi-keyboard, live-electronics and video / premiered by Frederik Croene, 2011, deSingel * ''Fremdkörper #3'' 010(11') for amplified ensemble & sampler /premiered by Klangforum Wien, 2011, at Impuls Festival

Selected recordings

*''Augmented'',

Kairos ''Kairos'' () is an ancient Greek language, Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. In modern Greek, ''kairos'' also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being (). ...

0015044KAI (April 2019), monographic DVD+CD *"Flesh+Prosthesis #0–2", "Fremdkörper #2" on Nikel – A Decade (July 2017) *''Cloud Chamber'' – improvisations with Peter Jacquemyn on Champdaction Recordings (December 2016) *"Mirror Box Extensions" on ''Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015'', Neos 11611-12 (October 2016) *"Mirror Box (Flesh+Prosthesis #3)" on Trio Accanto Edition Vol. 1, WERGO (2016) * "Generation Kill" on ''Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012'', Neos 11303-05 (October 2013) * ''Fremdkörper'',

Sub Rosa ''Sub rosa'' (Neo-Latin for "under the rose") is a Latin phrase which denotes secrecy or confidentiality. The rose has an ancient history as a symbol of secrecy. History In Hellenistic and later Roman mythology, roses were associated with secr ...

SR352 (June 2012): monographic double-cd * ''Realgar'' – improvisations with collectief reFLEXible, Amirani Records, AMRN 013 (October 2008)

Selected bibliography

About Stefan Prins

*''Alien Bodies, Stefan Prins' aesthetics of music'', Tomasz Biernacki, Dissonance *''Darmstadt New Wave Modernism'', Celeste Oram, Tempo (2015)

By Stefan Prins

*''Corps Hybrides dans les Espaces Hybrides'', Dissonance nr. 140 (December 2017) *''Über das Multidimensionale'', MusikTexte, Heft 145 (May 2015) *''Het Theater van het Hybride Lichaam'', Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen (April 2015) *''Composing Today : Luft von diesem Planeten'', Darmstädter Beiträge zum Neuen Musik, band 22 (August 2014) *''Composing Today : Luft von diesem Planeten'', Klangforum Agenda 2013–14 (August 2013) *Together with Pieter Matthynssens: ''“Nadar Ensemble: Verankerung in der heutigen Welt'', in Positionen, Heft 97 (November 2013) *''Komponieren Heute: Luft von diesem Planeten'', in Positionen, Heft 97 (November 2013)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prins, Stefan 1979 births Belgian male classical composers Living people 20th-century Belgian classical composers 21st-century Belgian classical composers People from Kortrijk Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni Harvard University alumni 20th-century Belgian male musicians 21st-century Belgian male musicians