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Michel Béro was born in Mélin (Jodoigne) on April 26, 1950. At the Brussels Conservatory, he studied piano in the class of André Dumortier (Yvette Allard) (1969-1970). At the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1971-1975), he earned a bachelor’s degree and a teaching qualification in Art History and Archaeology (musicology) for his thesis: ‘Sigismond Thalberg, Aspects of Piano Virtuosity in the 19th Century’ (Professor Robert Wangermée). He then studied musical composition and orchestration privately with Marcel Quinet (1981-1986).
Joining RTBF as a production assistant in 1973, he became a producer in 1981 and then head producer in 1995. Concurrently, he served as delegate to the International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO) from 1987 to 2009. He also taught music history from 1980 to 1984 at the Brussels Academy of Music and from 1980 to 1996 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels.
Michel Béro defines himself as a contemporary composer insofar as he feels an affinity with current Belgian composers. Fascinated by the relationship between music and mathematical formulas, his works are nevertheless not governed by rigid formulas.