Frederic D'Haene


Frederic D’haene is an avant-garde composer born in Kortrijk in 1961. After completing musicology at Ghent University and KU Leuven, he studied composition at Royal Conservatory of Liège with Frederic Rzewski, Walter Zimmerman, Henri Pousseur and Vinko Globokar. He later worked as assistant of Frederic Rzewski at the Conservatory of Liège. He was introduced to Gagaku Music through Tadatoshi Miyagawa and Kanehiko Togi.
His own composition technique is called ‘paradoxophony’.

Collaborations

Frederic D'Haene writes mainly commissioned work: Orchestral and chamber music, pieces for solo instruments and vocal music.