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Marc Michael De Smet

Conductor and cellist Marc Michael De Smet (°1948) studied at the Conservatories of Music in Ghent, Brussels, The Hague and Maastricht. He received his training as a conductor from Lucas Vis. He also attended master classes with Franco Ferrara in Sienna (IT), and with Laszlo Heltay. De Smet took composition lessons with Norbert Rousseau (BE) and Louis Andriessen (NL). He has written music for theatre and more than 150 songs for voice and cello. In 1983, De Smet founded De Nieuwe Muziekgroep, a larger instrumental ensemble which he led for seven years. In 1989, he conducted the premiere series of Karel Goeyvaerts’s opera for chamber orchestra ‘Aquarius’ with the Dutch Aquarius Ensemble, and in 1995, he founded the Goeyvaerts Consort, which in 2007 was transformed in Aquarius, a chamber choir specialising in contemporary vocal music. De Smet also teached choir, choir conducting, vocal ensemble and chamber music at the Ghent Conservatory

Selective discography

	Voorslaap: 22 gedichten van Herman de Coninck (2021) 21st century / contemporary, spoken word Mady Bonert, Marc Michael De Smet, Marc Michael De Smet		Anthony Ritchie - Survivors (2018) 21st century / contemporary Aquarius, Anthony Ritchie, Marc Michael De Smet
	Douces nuits (2017) classical Aquarius, Marc Michael De Smet, Diverse componisten		Arvo Pärt - Magnificent Magnificat (2015) 21st century / contemporary Aquarius, Arvo Pärt, Marc Michael De Smet
	Kristiaan van Ingelgem, Maarten van Ingelgem - In Joyful Dismay (2014) 21st century / contemporary Aquarius, Maarten Van Ingelgem, Marc Michael De Smet, Jutta Troch, Kristiaan Van Ingelgem		World Première Recordings - A meeting with Roland Coryn (2013) 21st century / contemporary Aquarius, Roland Coryn, Marc Michael De Smet
	Arvo Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen (2013) 20th century Aquarius, Marc Michael De Smet, Arvo Pärt		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 (...)
	Aquarius (2012) 21st century / contemporary, 20th century Aquarius, Marc Michael De Smet, Arvo Pärt		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 (...)

Selectieve discografie als componist

	Voorslaap: 22 gedichten van Herman de Coninck (2021) 21st century / contemporary, spoken word Mady Bonert, Marc Michael De Smet, 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 (...)

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	Over Lucien Posman & William Blake

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Voorslaap: 22 gedichten van Herman de Coninck (2021) 21st century / contemporary, spoken word Mady Bonert, Marc Michael De Smet, Marc Michael De Smet

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