Wim Lasoen

The Belgian composer, conductor and multi-instrumentplayer Wim Lasoen (°Bruges 1972) is the artistic director of the renowned MUDA Arts Centre in Evergem, near Ghent (Belgium) and the founder of NewZenMusic.org. He studied marimba, orchestral and solo percussion, chamber music, jazz and composition in the conservatoires of Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. As a conductor and multi-instrumentalist he has worked together with Isolde Lasoen, Johan Verminnen, Eric Melaerts, Eduard Bouadé, Daan Struyven, Paul Michiels, Ludwig Albert, Kathelijn van Dongen, Danielle Buijck and many others.

A small amount of the music of Wim Lasoen can be categorized as 'light' or programme music, but for the vast majority his larger compositions are intended to be modern architectural soundscapes, still with a strong urge for bringing back the importance and brilliance of melody and rhythm. Most of the time there are one or more well-hidden minimalistic cores in the orchestral pieces, which often evolve through multi-tonality and almost excessive layering of multiple musical ideas into grand maestosos... or the total opposite.