Dirk Brossé
Belgian-born Dirk Brossé is a composer and conductor whose dual careers veered into many directions, including composing oratorios, musicals, and film scores, and conducting both symphonies and whole concerts devoted to film music. Not surprisingly, his compositional style is quite eclectic, from the exotic orchestral work The Birth of Music -- An Ethno Classical Symphony (1997) to his fairytale musical The Prince of Africa (2002). He has written over 200 works in varied genres, including more than 20 film scores, among them Koko Flanel (1989), Daens (1992), and When The Light Comes (1998). Brossé has also led orchestras on film soundtracks, as with Elliot Goldenthal's score for The Good Thief (2002), which starred Nick Nolte. In addition, he has famously conducted many concert presentations of the John Williams music from the Star Wars series. Brossé has conducted major orchestras throughout Europe, the U.K., and U.S., and has made numerous recordings as a conductor. Many of his compositions are available on the EMI label.
Dirk Brossé was born in Heusden, Belgium, on February 18, 1960. He earned a degree in music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. He later took up studies with Volker Wangenheim at the Cologne Musikhochschule, earning a diploma in conducting. He took further conducting courses at the Vienna Musikhochschule.
In the 1980s Brossé served as music director of two youth orchestras, the National Youth Orchestra of Belgium (until 1989) and the Brussels International Youth Orchestra (until 1990). Meanwhile, he was turning out such scores as the 1986 orchestral work On Safari, the choral piece Sanctus (1989), and the score for the 1992 Academy Award nominee, Daens.
Throughout the 1990s Brossé remained busy as a composer and conductor, in the latter capacity leading mostly second-tier ensembles. His 1995 First Symphony, "Artesia," was a great success and was eventually issued on a Philips CD. From 1999, Brossé has served as musical host at the Ghent-based International Flanders Film Festival.
From 2001, Brossé began conducting many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and Rotterdam Philharmonic. Brossé continued to have success as a composer, as well, as evidenced by his 2007 song cycle The American Dream, on texts by Martin Luther King and Angelina Weld Grimké.
From 2009, Brossé has regularly led highly successful and highly publicized concerts that feature music from the Star Wars films. At these concerts, excerpts from the six films are shown and live narrators are used. Busy though he is as a composer and conductor, Brossé also serves as professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent.
© TiVo
Artistes similaires
-
L(oo)ping (Live with ONL)
Rone, Dirk Brossé, Orchestre National De Lyon
Classique - Paru chez InFiné le 16 juin 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
En(co)re (Live with ONL)
Rone, Dirk Brossé, Orchestre National De Lyon
Classique - Paru chez InFiné le 20 sept. 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mark Isham - Music For Film
Brussels Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé, Mark Isham
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Silva Screen Records le 4 nov. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Laurence Rosenthal - Music For Film And Television
Brussels Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé, Laurence Rosenthal
Classique - Paru chez Silva Screen Records le 3 nov. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
1418 De Musical
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Studio 100 le 2 mai 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shigeru Umebayashi (Music for Film)
Brussells Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Silva Screen Records Ltd le 26 nov. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Genius of Film Music: Hollywood 1980s-2000s
Dirk Brossé, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Musiques pour le cinéma - Paru chez London Philharmonic Orchestra le 1 oct. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Gabriel Yared - Music For Film
Brussells Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Silva Screen Records Ltd le 26 nov. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Onze natuur
Dirk Brossé, Brussels Philharmonic
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez VRT Muziek le 9 sept. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
World Soundtrack Awards - Tribute To The Film Composer
Brussells Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Silva Screen Records Ltd le 23 oct. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Music For Film
Brussels Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé
Électronique ou concrète - Paru chez buteo buteo le 28 févr. 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Symphonic Journey from Philly to Utopia
Dirk Brossé, Brussels Philharmonic
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Antarctica Records le 25 sept. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brossé: Seven Nocturnes
Dirk Brossé, Daniel Blumenthal, Prima La Musica
Classique - Paru chez Etcetera le 16 mai 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Best Original Film Music Scores
Classique - Paru chez Tempo le 25 nov. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Keep Moving
Dirk Brossé, Brussels Philharmonic
Classique - Paru chez Antarctica Records le 1 oct. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Daens
Dirk Brossé & The New Belgian Chamber Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Tempo le 2 juin 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Concerto for Isabelle
Classique - Paru chez WM Benelux BV le 18 nov. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Pulse of Joy
Dirk Brossé, Brussels Philharmonic
Classique - Paru chez Antarctica Records le 6 déc. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Koko Flanel Ost
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Tempo le 1 juin 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -