Edwin Clapuyt

Born in 1965, Edwin Clapuyt studied at the Académie de musique de Bruxelles and at the Académie de musique d’Etterbeek. He then entered the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles in 1983 after completing his secondary studies. There he obtained several Premier Prix, including the Premier Prix in piano, awarded with the Galliot Prize and the Lemike Frison Prize, as well as the Premier Prix in Fugue and the Premier Prix in Music History. After teaching at three music academies in the Brussels region, Edwin Clapuyt was appointed director of the Académie de musique d’Evere in 1991, a position he held until 2004. Since 1992, he has been a professor of Musical Analysis at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, guiding many students to discover the fundamental mechanisms of composition through in depth analysis of works by well known composers. In 2002, he created the course in computer assisted music at the Conservatoire. From January 2004 to January 2008, Edwin Clapuyt served as deputy director of the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. As a composer, Edwin Clapuyt is influenced by counterpoint, repetitive music, post modernism, and new consonant music. His main objective is to evoke emotion in the audience and establish a communication with them. Some of his works are published by Alain Van Kerckhoven Éditeur in Brussels, including Four Lines for Shadow Square for string quartet, Les Lamentations de Cassandre for B flat clarinet, cello, and piano, Abydos for flute quartet, Un Arbre en son rêve… for saxophone and string quintet, recorded by Rhonny Ventat and his project Saxacorda (CD DITH 121), and Albireo for solo bass clarinet.