Wim Henderickx
Wim Henderickx, Composer
Wim Henderickx is a Flemish composer, based in Antwerp. He studied
composition and percussion at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp and sonology
at Ircam in Paris and at the Conservatoire of Music in The Hague.
COMPOSITIONS
Many of his works are influenced by oriental music and philosophy. He wrote
works for opera, music theatre, orchestra, choirs, windband and chamber music.
Electronics are often an important feature in his music. Following a journey
around India and Nepal he composed the Tantric Cycle. Commissioned by the
Queen Elisabeth Competition, he composed Canzone for voice and piano, for the
semi finals of the 2008 edition. In 2016 Blossomings for choir, trumpet and
electronics premiered at LSO St Luke's in London with the BBC Singers, Marco
Blaauw (trumpet) and Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Requiem was commissioned
by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in 2017, a collaboration with choreographer Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
He has been Composer in Residence at Muziektheater Transparant since 1996
and in 2013 he joined the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra as Artist in Residence.
FULL CDs
The 3 Ragas were recorded in 1999 with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Grant Llewellyn. The CD Tejas & other Orchestral Works was
released by the same orchestra in 2011 and was conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
The full CDs Disappearing in Light (2011) and Triptych (2015) were developed in
collaboration with the HERMESensemble & Jorrit Tamminga (electronics). The
2016 double CD was released by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, containing
Symphony No.1, Groove! and the solo + orchestral version of Empty Mind I. In
2018 Boho Strings and conductor David Ramael recorded the Nostalgia CD with
five of Henderickx’s works for string orchestra.
PUBLISHER
Wim Henderickx's scores are published by Norsk Musikforlag, Oslo.
TEACHING
Wim Henderickx is professor of composition at the Royal Conservatoire in
Antwerp and at the Conservatoire in Amsterdam. He is also the main coach on
the annual SoundMIne Summer Composition Course for young composers,
which is organised by Musica, Impulse Centre for Music.
AWARDS
He received numerous awards, such as the Prize for Contemporary Music
Flanders- Québec in 1993. In 2006 he was nominated for the Flanders Culture
Prizes and in 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Lier (BE), his
birthplace. He was appointed as a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of
Belgium (KVAB) for Science and the Arts in 2015.
