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Several commissions are launched each year by the Centre Henri Pousseur to composers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and abroad. They are endowed with a composition grant and also allow composers to come and work on their creations at the Centre.
A place of experimentation, exchange and contemporary achievements. A pioneering role in the production and dissemination of electronic and mixed music.
Founded in 1970 on the initiative of Henri Pousseur and Pierre Bartholomée, the Centre Henri Pousseur (formerly known as the “Centre de Recherches et de Formation musicales de Wallonie”) has played a pioneering role and has been involved since its creation in the production and dissemination of electronic music and, in particular, mixed music. As a place of experimentation, exchange and contemporary realizations, the Henri Pousseur Center welcomes projects of artists from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, as well as from other regions of the country and from abroad.
Several commissions are launched each year by the Centre to composers from the Federation and abroad. Since 2009, it awards every two years the Henri Pousseur Prize to a young laureate of a Conservatory of the Walloon-Brussels Federation.
Through its own projects, such as the Festival “Images Sonores”, the Centre supports the diffusion of creations made in its studios, without neglecting the repertoire.
The activities of the Centre Henri Pousseur are carried out with the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Direction générale de la Culture, Service de la Musique).
The activities of the Centre Henri Pousseur are carried out with the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Direction générale de la Culture, Service de la Musique).
The Team
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Stefan Hejdrowski
General Direction
Stefan Hejdrowski is the general director of the Centre Henri Pousseur since 2022. Trained as a composer at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, he participates in numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad. Dedicated to the transmission of today’s music, Stefan Hejdrowski teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. In 2016, he obtained a master’s degree in Art History at the University of Liège and trained in the event management sector. His research focuses on the place of music in the visual arts.
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Lucas Lebrun
COMPUTER MUSIC & LIVE ELECTRONICS
Lucas Lebrun has been working since 2023 as a director in computer music at the Centre Henri Pousseur. After years of practicing trumpet and free jazz improvisation, Lucas Lebrun enrolled in 2018 in the Live Electronics class of Benjamin Van Esser and Peter Swinnen at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. As a multimedia artist and composer, he realizes numerous projects and teaches courses. Lucas Lebrun also holds a master’s degree in Political Science in Paris.
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Xavier Meeùs
COMPUTER MUSIC & LIVE ELECTRONICS
Trained as a sound engineer at the IAD (Louvain-La-Neuve), Xavier Meeùs has a great experience of accompanying creators in the realization and diffusion of their works in terms of sound spatialization, control room programming or video editing. He joined the team of the Centre Henri Pousseur in 2018. As a sound engineer and director in music informatics, he has realized many projects at Charleroi-Danses, notably as Thierry De Mey’s appointed stage manager.
