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Applause academic year 2024-2025

Lead and supporting roles, debut and compilation albums, finals, beginner's luck and career awards ... here you can read who received recent applause and why in academic year 2024-2025.

Jazz

  • Miel De Koninck, piano student within the jazz course, is invited as Artist in Residence for the new concert season at the Singer in Rijkevorsel in August.
  • New record by AKI! The long-awaited album 'Het Tij' by alumna jazz drums Anke Verslype and her band was unleashed on the world. Knack went to see her.
  • Lennert Baerts, alumnus and teacher of Jazz composed the music for ‘Part of Virtues’, a themed walk in the MSK in Ghent.
  • Alumna sax Hanne De Backer recently joined the Jakob Bro Large Ensemble. Besides Jakob Bro, the ensemble includes many big names from the jazz scene.
  • Alumnus Jeroen Reggers released the album Ten Years from Now, with contributions by alumnus Gert-Jan Dreessen and teacher Nicolas Thys. The album was rated four stars in De Standaard. 

Classical Music

  • Vocal studies student Phaedra Pribilla wins first prize in the Lunigiana Music Festival in July.
  • Early September, teacher Korneel Bernolet snags the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritit for his latest solo album ENSUITE.
  • Master students Elizabeth Salerno, Erica Tuik-Vogel and Ana Mondéjar Amat sweep away all the podium places at The National Flute Association piccolo artist competition in Texas, USA in August.
  • Alumnus Leander Carlier won the ARIA singing competition on Dutch national television. Omroep MAX awarded him the best new opera singer in the Netherlands. 
  • Lotte De Munck (master student Violin) has a chance of winning the Future Test Award with her creative project Street Chronicles. In April, we will know whether she, together with her interdisciplinary team Chimaera, will win the prize.
  • Daiga Korolonoka from Aldo Baerten's flute class pulled the sheet in the flute audition for the Liepaja Orchestra!
  • INNER LIFE premiered in September. It was Wim Henderickx's last composition, finished by Diederik Glorieux and performed by many teachers and students.
    Amelia Grenda was chosen as second Flute and picollo in the Sinfonia Baltica Slutsk in Poland. 
  • Flute teacher Aldo Baerten will play a concert series alongside pianist Marco Mantovani, and this at the invitation of the Wu Promotion Agency (China).
    Flute teacher Peter Verhoyen became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for science and arts.
  • Yungshang Bao, Marimba alumnus, won first prize in the solo category in the Universal Marimba Competition Belgium 2024.
  • Beyond Tradition, the creative project by alumnus Bernardo Beirão and colleague/alumna Maria Leiva Sepùlveda, among others, was selected for the semi-final of the Supernova competition. 

Drama

  • Winter De Cock, Media, Writing & Performance Art student is nominated for the NTR Podcast Prize at the end of August. A week later, she cashes in her nomination and also wins the audience award with her audio story ‘(womb) mother’.
  • Club Satteliet, the collective that includes Drama alumna Elaine Hakkaert, premieres ‘Tradwives, the musical’ in September in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam.
  • Interdisciplinarity among alumni! Richard R. He and Lieke Oolders, each drawing on their own expertise, created the musical theatre production ‘ Egel’. Premiering on 8 March in c o r s o!  
  • Poet and writer and teacher Maud Vanhauwaert receives the Prince's Prize. She is the best word artist in the Dutch language area. Her reading about the friendship between a Flemish and a Dutch woman received the most votes from the Prince members. 
  • Former teacher Phara de Aguirre receives the 24th Maestro Honoris Causa during the Night of the Maestro by Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and Bolster vzw.
  • Tiemen Hiemstra, Media, writing and performance art alumnus, made it to the shortlist of the Bronze Owl 2024 with his novel W.

Dance

  • Alumna Dance Sandrine Wouters was asked to develop a new choreography for the Ensor Night at KMSKA on 21 November. She is happy to rise to that challenge! We are looking forward to the result. 
  • Praise everywhere for alumna Bachelor Dance Kika Ilegems and her father and guest lecturer Drama Herwig Ilegems. Kika reworked her graduation project into the full-fledged performance Once and the critics are very enthusiastic.