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Lieven Baeyens was born on March 10, 1951, in Wilrijk (Antwerp). His maternal grandmother, Maria Hye, introduced him to the world of music. Gaby Van Nuffel (keyboard) and Jan Van Bouwel (music theory) were his first teachers at the Leuven Municipal Conservatory.
He graduated from the Lemmens Institute with several first prizes in 1974. Frans Geysen is a source of inspiration in the fields of composition and analysis. He attended masterclasses in Remscheid (Germany) at the Akademie für Musische Bildung und Medienerziehung (Pavel Blatny, composition, and Peter Trunk, improvisation) and in Moltifao (Corsica, France) with the Fédération nationale d’Associations Culturelles et d’Expansion Musicale (Michel Corboz, stage director).
As an independent student, he studied theatre at the University of Antwerp, as well as at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam on an Erasmus grant.
From 1986 to 2000, he taught dramaturgy, text and music analysis, choral conducting, and theatre projects at the Faculty of Arts of the Eindhoven Academy of Dramatic Art (now Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg, Netherlands).
With set designer Diane Batens, he founded the IOTA theatre working group (vzw) in 1989, and ten years later, the IOTA company (asbl). Initially based in Barvaux-sur-Ourthe, and since 2006, the workshop at the Poupehan-sur-Semois school in Bouillon has been recognized by the authorities of the French Community of Belgium through a partnership agreement. With professional collaborators, they have created around twenty stage productions for young people and toured Europe with contemporary dance, theatre, visual performances and opera.