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Lucien Posman

A self-proclaimed post-mannerist. Behind the apparent simplicity of his works lurks a rigorous composition system. He knows how to alleviate gravity when appropriate with a healthy dose of perspective and humour.

"As a composer I have always been questing for partial opportunities to synthesize modern and postmodern thinking as related to music. This translates into a communicative rhetoric on the fault line between tradition and innovation. This rhetoric is based on a balance between anti-rationalism and rationalism, for the way the music material is handled, and an emancipatory way of dealing with the music parameters. I prefer the explicit use of a perceptible metrical pulsation and avoidance of hyperkinetic rhythms; often non-Western organising systems are used. As far as the use of texts is concerned I usually opt for supporting the contents of the meaning. And last but not least there is the goal to create an experience of tonality in a non-tonal harmonic context." (Lucien Posman)

Lucien Posman was born on 22 March 1952 in Eeklo. He completed his higher music studies at the Royal Conservatories of Ghent and Antwerp. In Ghent he earned first prizes in solfège, harmony, music history and composition (under Roland Coryn), as well as a teaching certificate for solfège (first and second cycle). In Antwerp he received a first prize for fugue and counterpoint in the class of Nini Bulterys. He also studied music analysis, piano and voice.
Posman is a teacher at the Hogeschool Gent in the department of composition, music theory and teacher training. He is also a teacher at the MAGO (music academy) in Ghent. He was co-founder, in 1993, of the cultural organisations De Verenigde Cultuurfabrieken and De Rode Pomp. At present, Lucien Posman is artistic director of De Rode Pomp. He was also involved in setting up the ECCG (European Composers' Collective, Ghent region). In addition, he is on the editorial board of the periodical, Nieuwe Vlaamse Muziekrevue. As an assistant on the Musical Days of Flanders, he organises and programs small festivals abroad (St Petersburg, New York, Bratislava) which aim to confront Belgian works with compositions from the repertoire of other lands.
Posman's compositions have been performed in such festivals as De Week van de Hedendaagse Muziek in Ghent, the Belgian-Dutch Music Days in Maastricht, Muzicii Contemporane Belgiene in Bucharest, Ars Musica, the Flanders Festival, and the Musica Nova Festival in Sao Paulo. Various of his compositions have been recorded for CD, and several programmes have been devoted to him and his works on such radio networks as VRT Radio 3 (the Flemish classical music programme), Radio Moscow, and the Dutch, Brazilian (Sao Paulo) and Romanian services. For his song cycle, Songs of Experience (five songs on poems by William Blake, for middle voice and piano) Lucien Posman received the Muizelhuis Prize for chamber music in 1988.

Selective bibliography
- B. ANGELET, Vlaanderen leeft in Hedendaagse Muziek. Buckinx, Nuyts en Posman, in Arcade, 2/2, 1988, p. 10-15
- M. ANSEEUW, Tussen wens en werkelijkheid. Lief en leed van 10 jonge komponisten in Vlaanderen, in Tijdschrift van De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, 10, september 1986, p. 25-37
- D. BLOCKEEL, Lucien Posman. Van een tovenaar die wielen deed draaien en hoe hij verder denkt te zullen rijden, in Ambrozijn, 10/2, 1992-1993, p. 19-33
- B. BUCKINX, De Kleine Pomo of de Muziekgeschiedenis van het Postmodernisme, Peer, 1994, p. 21
- A. BUFFEL, ... ontmoet de componist Lucien Posman, in Vlaams Fluitistentijdschrift, 5/4, juni 1998, p. 15-18
- Y. KNOCKAERT, art. Lucien Posman, in M. DELAERE, Y. KNOCKAERT en H. SABBE, Nieuwe Muziek in Vlaanderen, Brugge, 1998, p. 151-154
- M. DE SMET, Kagel en Posman in Gent, in Muziek, een privilege, 1/6, februari 1992, p. 26
- M. DE SMET, Lucien Posman. 5 songs of Experience, in Tijdschrift van De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, 20, maart 1989, p. 48-51
- Y. KNOCKAERT, Het Postmodernisme in Vlaanderen, in Vlaanderen, 44/5, november-december 1995, p. 360-365
- Y. KNOCKAERT, Hilarische ernst. Vlaamse componisten (23). Lucien Posman, in Kunst & Cultuur, 27/12, december 1994, p. 44-45
- Y. KNOCKAERT, Le conte de l’Étude Modeste, in Contemporary Music in Flanders II. Flemish Piano Music since 1950, uitg. dr. M. DELAERE en J. COMPEERS, Leuven, 2005, p.33-34
- N. VERSCHOORE, Lettres de Flandre Lucien Posman , in La revue Générale, ed. Duculot Louvain-La-Neuve, jg 136 nr. 6; 2001, p. 82-84
- Y. SENDEN, Herdenkingsjaar 2002 Lucien Posman, in Even aanzoemen, 30/4-5, oktober 2002, p. 4-5
- S. CLAEYS, Een gelauwerde Lucien Posman, Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, jg. 51, nr. 293, 2002, p. 244-246

©2001 Klaartje Gonnissen, for Flanders Music Centre and MATRIX
©2005 Klaas Coulembier, for Flanders Music Centre and MATRIX (update)

Selectieve discografie als componist

	Virtuoso music for solo cello in Belgium (2022) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary, romanticism Herwig Coryn, Dirk Brossé, Roland Coryn, André Laporte, Lucien Posman, Rudi Tas, Piet Swerts, Luc Van Hove (...)		Posman Lucien - Welcome Stranger (2012) 20th century Marc Michael De Smet, Evelyne Bohen, Lucien Posman, Mieke de Blieck, Robert Luts, Lilya Umnova, Timur Sergeyenia, Jan Devlieger (...)
	En hij schiep... 7 culturen (2005) 20th century De Tweede Adem, Maarten Van Ingelgem, Lucien Posman, Peter Swinnen, Filip Rathé, Petra Vermote, Natalie Goossens, Nicolas De Cock (...)		Carnaval des Animaux (2003) 21st century / contemporary, 20th century Peter Verhoyen, Arco Baleno, Frits Celis, Yves Bondue, Petra Vermote, Jan Huylebroeck, Marc Matthys, Boudewijn Buckinx (...)
	New Belgian Etudes (2002) 20th century Boudewijn Buckinx, Yves Bondue, Stefan Van Puymbroeck, Raoul De Smet, Daniel Gistelinck, Roland Coryn, Frédéric Devreese, Hans Cafmeyer (...)		Vierkant Muziek - 2002 (2002) Jazz, classical Beethoven Academie, Pianoduo Kolacny, LOD, BL!NDMAN, Prometheus Ensemble, Ben Sluijs Quartet, Erik Vermeulen Trio, Collegium Vocale Gent (...)
	Posman Lucien - Some Blake works (2002) 21st century / contemporary, 20th century Els Crommen, Bart Meynckens, Marc Legros, Het Goeyvaerts Consort, Lucien Posman, Marc Michael De Smet		Miniaturen voor archipel (2000) 20th century Kris Matthynssens, Pieter Stas, Goeyvaerts Strijktrio, Jan Van Landeghem, Bart Meynckens, Stefaan De Bruyne, Bart Van Kerchove, Boudewijn Buckinx (...)
	Identities (2000) 20th century Arco Baleno, Lucien Posman, Frits Celis, Marc Matthys, Wim Henderickx, Piet Swerts, Roland Coryn		Vintage of European Saxophone Music 2: Belgium (2000) 20th century Hans de Jong, Paul Hermsen, Joseph Jongen, Jean Absil, Léon Jongen, Marc Verhaegen, Raoul De Smet, Lucien Posman (...)

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