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PIGEOLET Laurent

Born 27 December 1969
Rue de la Pierrère 24
B-1435 Hévillers
Belgium
Tel.: +32 10 60 26 19 – +32 474 219 659
E-mail: laurent@laurentpigeoletcompositeur.be
Website: http://www.laurentpigeoletcompositeur.be

Composer – Pianist – Improviser

Key skills

Professional experience since 1991:

  • Composition for a wide range of ensembles, from solo works to symphony orchestra. Works for dance, theatre and film.
  • Concert pianist and improviser.
  • Complete list of works and repertoire available on the website.

Commissions and performances for festivals and competitions

  • Kidzik Festival 2025 and 2026
  • “Attention musiques fraîches!” – Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (La Bellone 2005, Arsonic, Flagey 2024)
  • Musiq3 Brabant-Wallon Festival 2022
  • Ars Musica Festival 2010
  • Dexia Classics Competition (violin, viola, double bass), 2011
  • Loop Festival
  • Emergence Festivals 2008 and 2010
  • “Belgian Chocolates” Festival 2002
  • Godefroid Competition (harp), 2012

Concerts, compositions and improvisation for dance, theatre and film

  • 2026 – present: solo performance “Volera, volera pas” (Jeunesses Musicales)
  • 2023 – present: creations with the “Son-corps-voix” collective and CHP (Centre Henry Pousseur)
  • 2022: “Leos Janacek” project: completion of Sonata 1/X/1905 for piano
  • 2022 – present: film music for the Cinémathèque Méliès in Paris
  • 1994 – 1995: accompanist and improviser at P.A.R.T.S.
  • 1993 – present: accompanist and improviser in dance education at Lycée Martin V, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • 1998 – 2000: collaboration with the theatre company “Walking Around” (Chile)
  • 2003: collaboration with the theatre company “Labora Vertigo”
  • 2014 – 2018: performance tours with the theatre company “Stoemp”
  • 2015 – present: live cinema performances (piano improvisation to silent films)
  • 2018 – 2022: “Origines” duo with Laure Stehlin, flute
  • 2018 – present: concert tours with Erwin Liénart, violin
  • 2017 – present: “Toccanta” duo with Marie Fripiat, voice
  • 1996 – 1998: MIFA project (Music, Computer Science, Visual Arts): management of a collective composition project with students as part of the “Wallonie-Québec” exchanges organised by AQWBJ
  • 1996: Nuits de La Hulpe
  • 1992 – present: numerous concerts with orchestra, in chamber music ensembles and as a soloist
  • 1988 – 1991: choir member, Ensemble Vocal de la Communauté Française de Belgique

Professional associations

  • Member of the IRCAM Forum
  • Member of the Forum de la Création
  • Member of the Union des Compositeurs Belges
  • Member of SABAM
  • Member of Tara No. 3767-1

Teaching

1992 – present: teacher of analysis and musical writing, piano and improvisation; accompanist for singers, instrumentalists, and classical and contemporary dancers at:

  • Royal Conservatory of Brussels
  • Royal Conservatory of Liège
  • Royal Conservatory of Mons
  • Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie (IMEP), Namur
  • Music Academies of Court-Saint-Etienne and Wavre

1998 – present: Cuban salsa teacher

Education and qualifications

  • 2024: Master’s Degree in Didactics (Highest Distinction), Royal Conservatory of Mons
  • 2004: First Prize in Orchestration, Royal Conservatory of Mons (class of Claude Ledoux and Denis Pousseur)
  • 2003: First Prize in Composition, Royal Conservatory of Mons (class of Claude Ledoux and Denis Pousseur)
  • 1994 – 1997: Higher Diploma in Piano, Royal Conservatory of Liège (class of Joseph Alfidi)
  • 1996: Second Prize in Practical Harmony, Conservatory of Liège (class of Guy Luypaerts)
  • 1993 – 1995: Second Prize in Electroacoustic Composition, Royal Conservatory of Mons (class of Annette Vande Gorne)
  • 1994: First Prize in Written Harmony, Royal Conservatory of Mons (class of Luc Dupuis)
  • 1992 – 1993: Higher Diploma in Piano (first year), Royal Conservatory of Brussels (class of Evgeny Moguilevsky)
  • 1987 – 1992: Laureate Diploma in Piano and Music Pedagogy (High Distinction), Institut de Musique et de Pédagogie (IMEP), including First Prizes in:
    • piano (class of Tatiana Evdokimova)
    • chamber music
    • music history
    • solfège
  • 1981 – 1987: secondary education, Lycée Martin V, Louvain-la-Neuve

Music software

User of music software on Mac and PC: Sibelius, Dorico, Musescore, ProTools, Reaper, Audacity, IAnalyse, Counterpoint, MAX/MSP, etc.

Additional training

  • 2018: Beatboxing workshop with B-Flow, Lycée Martin V, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • 2015: Stress management workshop with Claudine Pierson (ESAHR)
  • 2015: Medieval music workshop (Hildegard von Bingen) with Catherine Schröeder, Centre de musique médiévale, Paris
  • 2014: Home Studio workshop with Pascale Snoeck, AKDT, Libramont
  • 2014: Improvisation for film workshop with Benjamin Macke, AKDT, Neufchâteau
  • 2011: Music technology workshop “developing your project with MAX/MSP” at IRCAM, Paris
  • 2010: Music technology workshops (MAX/MSP) at IRCAM, Paris, and with Roald Baudoux, Brussels
  • 2010: Music technology workshops (MAX/MSP) with Roald Baudoux, Brussels
  • 2009: Cuban music workshop with Patrice Banchereau, AKDT, Neufchâteau
  • 2007: Composition workshop with Gian Paolo Luppi, Claude Ledoux and Jan Van Landeghem, Mircourt
  • 2004: Electroacoustic music workshop with Georges Bouche and Alain Denis, IMEP
  • 2004: Schenkerian analysis with Nicolas Méeus (DEA, UCL)
  • 1992 – 1995: Piano and organ improvisation workshops with Dominique Bodson, Firmin Decerf and Pirly Zurstrassen
  • 1994: Improvisation for dance workshop with Isabelle Fontaine (ESAHR)
  • 1992 – 1993: Electroacoustic music seminars with Francis Dhomont, Michel Chion and Robert Normandeau
  • 1991: Choral singing seminar with Henry Pousseur and Pierre Cao

Languages

  • French: native language
  • English: good working knowledge
  • Spanish: good working knowledge
  • Dutch: basic knowledge