Born in Bruges (1983), Daan Janssens studied at the local music school, where he got his first composition lessons with Octaaf Van Geert. He studied composition at the Ghent Conservatory with Frank Nuyts, Godfried-Willem Raes and Filip Rathe. He visited several international composition seminars and master classes. Since October 2016, he teaches composition and orchestration at the Royal Conservatory Ghent.
Daan Janssens collaborated with both Belgian and international ensembles and soloist, such as SPECTRA, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Aton & Armide, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, I SOLISTI, Thomas E. Bauer... during festivals as the TRANSIT festival, Ars Musica, Festival Musica Strasbourg, De Singel, Concertgebouw Brugge, Operadagen Rotterdam, De Munt/ La Monnaie
Since 2008, Janssens collaborates intensively with LOD, a Ghent based music theatre production house. In 2012, he presented his first opera, Les Aveugles, after Maurice Maeterlinck, in collaboration with Patrick Corillon. In April 2017, his second opera was premiered, Menuet, after a novel by Louis Paul Boon, in a stage direction of Fabrice Murgia. Currently, he is working on his third opera, Brodeck, after a novel by Philippe Claudel, again in collaboration with Fabrice Murgia.
Performers on this recording:
I SOLISTI, Jan Michiels, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, bODEM, HERMESensemble, Stijn Saveniers, Daan Vandewalle, SPECTRA, ELS Mondelaers
