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Frank Agsteribbe was born in Ghent in 1968. At the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp, he studied organ with Stanislas Deriemaeker and Joris Verdin from 1986 onwards, and harpsichord with Jos Van Immerseel. He also perfected his skills with Gustav Leonhardt, Davitt Moroney, and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini.
Besides his intense activity in early music as a continuo player, he is also interested in contemporary music literature: he studied with Herman Sabbe (musicology, Ghent) and at the Antwerp Conservatory, he took courses in music history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with Boudewijn Buckinx, which were approached not only from a historical perspective, but also from a sociological and philosophical perspective. On Buckinx’s advice, he took composition lessons with the American Frederic Rzewski in Liège between 1990 and 1994. It was during this period that Agsteribbe resolutely embraced a postmodern style of writing. Many works were commissioned by organizations such as Broederlijk Delen, Radio 3, Muziektheater Transparant, the Royal Youth Theatre, and the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp. He became more active as a conductor in 1994, conducting Baroque cantatas, 20th-century repertoire, and his own works. Agsteribbe studied orchestral conducting with David Angus from 2003 onwards and received a Dartington International Summer School Scholarship to participate in the orchestral conducting masterclass with Diego Masson in August 2004. As a harpsichordist/organist, he performs frequently with various orchestras and chamber music ensembles, including Duo Mosaic, The Wondrous Machine, The Great Charm, Il Fondamento, Huelgas Ensemble, Anima Eterna, and La Petite Bande. He gives concerts in various European countries and regularly collaborates on radio and CD recordings. Since 1989, Frank Agsteribbe has been affiliated with the Antwerp Conservatory, where he teaches analysis, AML theory, and chamber music. He also works as a staff member at the Orpheus Institute, as well as a freelance program maker, reviewer, and recording engineer. He has been a board member of the Association for Music Theory in Amsterdam since its founding in 1999, and from 1999 to 2003 was editor of the Journal for Music Theory, also in Amsterdam. In June 2002, he was selected as a participant at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory in New York, and in 2003 and 2004, he was artistic staff member responsible for the International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory in Ghent. (Matrix)