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Kurt Bikkembergs

Composer and conductor Kurt Bikkembergs was born in Hasselt in 1963. After graduating in music teaching, composition and choral and orchestral conducting at the Lemmens Institute in Louvain, he persued his training in international master classes in Belgium and Austria given by, among others, Robert Sund (Sweden) and Timothy Brown (UK) for choral conducting, and Heinz Kratochwil (Austria) for composition. He was choir master at the Flemish Opera (2002-2008) and choir master/artistic director of the EuroChor-AGEC (2007-2010). He is currently choir master and professor choral conducting at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, Kapellmeister of the Brussels Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudule, artistic director of the Capella di Voce and of the Dutch Student Chamber Choir and a guest conductor of the Flemish Radio Choir. He is an active member of Europa Cantat and of the International Festival for the Youth in Neerpelt. As a composer he strives to renew vocal, in particular religious music, by adding personal experiences without neglecting tradition. His compositions include all kinds of choir music, chamber and ballet music, three oratorios and a couple of cantatas, but also orchestral works. At his leisure, he sometimes spends time as a freelance composer, conductor,member of a jury, and even singer, which led to successful commissions by several festivals in Belgium (Maasmechelen, Neerpelt, Tongeren, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Harelbeke, Courtrai, Watou, Hasselt , Louvain, Heist-op-den-Berg…) and abroad, in Germany (Bottrop, Saarbrücken, Halle, Mainz, Bonn, Limburg, Irsee), Holland (Dordrecht, Bussem, Amstelveen, The Hague, Utrecht, Den Bosch, Breda, Arnhem), France (Menton), the United Kingdom (Oxford), Spain (Barcelona), Poland (Poznan), Belarus (Minsk), Hungary (Pomaz), Serbia (Nis), Slovakia (Bratislava) and Croatia (Split).


Selective bibliography
- K. BIKKEMBERGS, Op ontdekkingsreis naar koorliteratuur uit de vreemde, in Adem, 1, 1992, pp. 25-29
- K. BIKKEMBERGS, Onvoltooide autobiografie, in Vlaanderen, 47/4, 1998, pp. 188-192
- K. VAN DEN BUYS, De Apocalyps volgens Kurt Bikkembergs, in Muziek en Woord, 26, 2000, pp. 25-26

Scores:  http://www.matrix-new-music.be

cd: www.montefagorum.be

Publishers:
Euprint, Carus Verlag (D), Harmonia (NL), ANZ-Limbrug, De Notenboom, Lantro, Intrada (NL), Annie Bank (NL), CVM, Het Madrigaal

Selective discography

	Prometheus (2013) 21st century / contemporary Ann De Renais, Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Vlaams Radio Koor (VRK)		Dit denken aan u ....1936 (2013) 20th century Jean Lambrechts, Stefaan Desmet, Kurt Bikkembergs, Raoul De Smet, Capella di voce, Vic Nees, Frans Geysen, Jean Lambrechts (...)
	Schroyens Raymond - Voorbij de zon en de wind (2012) 21st century / contemporary Capella di voce, Kurt Bikkembergs, Raymond Schroyens, Stefaan Desmet		Kurt Bikkembergs - Sacred works (2011) 20th century Kurt Bikkembergs, Capella di voce, Kurt Bikkembergs, Joris Lejeune, Inge Feyen
	Kurt Bikkembergs - Sacred works II (2011) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Capella di voce, Capella Sanctorum Michaelis et Gudulae, Inge Sykora, Caloroso, Bart Jacobs		Ad laudandum dominum - August de Boeck (2011) 20th century Capella SS Michaelis & Gudulae, Kurt Bikkembergs, August de Boeck, Bart Jacobs, Gaston Feremans
	Flemish Choral Music - Bij Stemband 8 (2010) 20th century, romanticism Peter Benoit, Herman Engels, August de Boeck, Johan Duijck, Diverse uitvoerders, Robert Herberigs, Marc Michael De Smet, Norbert Rosseau (...)		O sacrum convivium (2010) romanticism, 20th century Capella SS Michaelis & Gudulae, Ivo Mortelmans, Bart Jacobs, Jules Van Nuffel, Staf Nees, Lodewijk De Vocht, Emiel Wambach, Firmin Van de Velde (...)
	Live ! (2010) 20th century CMB - Jeugdkoor, Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Craig Carnaham, Heikki Sarmanto, Arne Mellnãs, Charles Wood, Hiroshi Ishimaru (...)		Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (2009) 20th century, romanticism Koor van het Lemmensinstituut, Peter Pieters, Jules Van Nuffel, Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Edgar Tinel, Aloys Desmet, Jules Vyverman, Kurt Bikkembergs (...)

Selectieve discografie als componist

	Aus der Tiefe (2014) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary Musa Horti, Eric Whitacre, Peter Dejans, Sven-David Sandström, Kurt Bikkembergs, Raymond Schroyens, Rudolf Mauersberger, Vic Nees (...)		Prometheus (2013) 21st century / contemporary Ann De Renais, Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Vlaams Radio Koor (VRK)
	Kurt Bikkembergs - Water, water, babbelwater... (2013) 21st century / contemporary Kurt Bikkembergs, Vocaal Ensemble Reflection, Patrick Windmolders		In honorem B.M.V. Causa Nostrae Laetitae (2012) 20th century Piet Swerts, Jan Peeters, De Kleine Cantorij Tongeren, Luc Ponet, Els Crommen, Kurt Bikkembergs, Noëlle Schepens, Jan Caals (...)
	Kurt Bikkembergs - Sacred works II (2011) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Capella di voce, Capella Sanctorum Michaelis et Gudulae, Inge Sykora, Caloroso, Bart Jacobs		Kurt Bikkembergs - Sacred works (2011) 20th century Kurt Bikkembergs, Capella di voce, Kurt Bikkembergs, Joris Lejeune, Inge Feyen
	Fingerprints - Signaturen van componerend Vlaanderen (2011) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary Bert Van Herck, Filip Rathé, Spectra Ensemble, Simon De Poorter, Annelies Van Parys, Klaas Coulembier, Stéphane Vande Ginste, Noor Sommereyns (...)		Flemish Choral Music - Bij Stemband 8 (2010) 20th century, romanticism Peter Benoit, Herman Engels, August de Boeck, Johan Duijck, Diverse uitvoerders, Robert Herberigs, Marc Michael De Smet, Norbert Rosseau (...)
	Caloroso (2010) 20th century, 21st century / contemporary Vic Nees, Kurt Bikkembergs, Maarten Van Ingelgem, Sebastiaan Van Steenberge		Live ! (2010) 20th century CMB - Jeugdkoor, Kurt Bikkembergs, Kurt Bikkembergs, Craig Carnaham, Heikki Sarmanto, Arne Mellnãs, Charles Wood, Hiroshi Ishimaru (...)

Author of

	Schroyens 80		Goede smaak bij het maken van een kinderlied

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Cantus Gallicanus (2003) Gregorian Frans Mariman, Schola Trunchiniensis, Gregoriaans

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