After he studied and won his first piano prize at the Conservatory in Liège, he abandoned the piano for self-taught composition. Initially greatly influenced by serialism, he soon felt it necessary to break beyond its constraints and exclusions. Never dismissing this recent heritage, he nonetheless developed a profoundly personal musical language, at the very centre of which lay meaningful communication with its audience.
In 1985 he became a composer in residence at the Monnaie, Belgium, where he was commissioned to write, amongst other works, his first 4 opera's. As of 1993 he worked together with the writer Luc Bondy for al his opera's. |
- 1983