Frédéric Devreese

Frédéric Devreese (born June 2, 1929 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch-born Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor.

Life and career

Devreese received his first musical training from his father, the composer-conductor Godfried Devreese (1893–1972). He studied composition with Marcel Poot and conducting with René Defossez in Brussels, composition with Ildebrando Pizzetti at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1952 to 1955 and conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the Wiener Staatsakademie in 1955-56.

Among his honors are the Prijs-Town-Ostend (1949, for Concerto No. 1), the Prix Italia (1964, for Willem van Saefthingen, together with Mark Liebrecht), the Georges Delerue Award and the Joseph Plateau Award (1990, for Het Sacrament). In addition, he has written the imposed work for the Reine Elisabeth competition in Brussels (1983, Concerto No. 4) and the Adolphe Sax competition in Dinant (1998, Ostinati).

He has served as conductor of the BRT Filharmonisch Orkest and has guest-conducted orchestras throughout the world. For his recordings for Marco Polo's series Anthology of Flemish Music, he was nominated for the Cultural Ambassador of Flanders in 1996-97.

In 1963 he became the father of author and founder of Liberation Prison Yoga, Anneke Lucas.

Selected works

Stage

Orchestral

Chamber music

Choral

Piano

Film scores (by director)

Discography

as composer

as conductor (excluding his own music)

References

Web site about Devreese

External links


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