Stefan Prins


Stefan Prins is a Belgian composer and performer.
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Biography

Studies

Born in Kortrijk, Stefan Prins studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp from which he holds a master's degree and specialized in sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at Harvard University under the supervision of Chaya Czernowin.
He also graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in electrotechnical engineering specialising in photonics.

Career

Stefan Prins's music has been performed in numerous international music festivals and concert series such as Donaueschingen Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ECLAT Festival, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Züricher Tage für Neue Musik, ISCM World Music Days, Deutschlandfunk Forum Neue Musik, University of Haifa, Imatronic ZKM, Under the Radar Festival, Moscow International House of Music, Wien Modern, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Ars Musica, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Installactions, Tzlil Meudcan, Mata Interval Series, Kesselhaus, Nowy Teatr Warschau, Musica Viva, Rainy Days Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Impuls Festival, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Transit Festival, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Luzerne Festival.
Many ensembles and musicians have performed his music such as Nadar Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, 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 of the ensemble Ministry of Bad Decisions, with Brian Archinal and Yaron Deutsch, and founding member of instant composed trio collectief reFLEXible.
He's guest-professor composition at the, Norwegian Academy for Music Oslo and is appointed at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria Von Weber" Dresden.

Prizes

Selected compositions

under_current 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

Selected recordings

  • Augmented, Kairos 0015044KAI, monographic DVD+CD
  • "Flesh+Prosthesis #0–2", "Fremdkörper #2" on Nikel – A Decade
  • Cloud Chamber – improvisations with Peter Jacquemyn on Champdaction Recordings
  • "Mirror Box Extensions" on Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015, Neos 11611-12
  • "Mirror Box " on Trio Accanto Edition Vol. 1, WERGO
  • "Generation Kill" on Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012, Neos 11303-05 Fremdkörper, Sub Rosa SR352 : monographic double-cdRealgar – improvisations with collectief reFLEXible, Amirani Records, AMRN 013

Selected bibliography

About Stefan Prins

  • Alien Bodies, Stefan Prins' aesthetics of music, Tomasz Biernacki, Dissonance
  • Darmstadt New Wave Modernism, Celeste Oram, Tempo

By Stefan Prins

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