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Danielle Baas
A Belgian composer of Amsterdam origin, born in 1958, Danielle Baas studied at the Jette Academy of Music and continued her training at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
She is a laureate of several international composition prizes.
In 2001, she founded the flexible ensemble Mikrokosmos, whose aim is to promote the creation of Belgian works.
Fuga Prize 2004.
From 2005 to 2008, she founded and organized an annual Belgian music festival in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe called ‘Festival Emergence’.
SoundArt Radio in the UK will dedicate a program to her works in 2010.
In 2010, she organized the international concert ‘In the Footsteps of Chopin and Liszt’ by the European Trio Elisabeth Deletaille, Bruno Ispiola, and André Grignard, featuring a repertoire of Women of the World, which was a huge success and was reprised in Russia in 2011 and partially in Argentina.
Symphonic Project in France will dedicate a program to her chamber music.
Artistic Director of the Osmose Festival in Evere since 2015.
Recipient of the 2015 Fuga Prize (personal award).
Artistic Director of L’Heure Musicale in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean since May 2021.
President of the Union of Belgian Composers since late 2023.