Heleen

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Heleen Van Haegenborgh start­ed her career as a pianist spe­cialised in con­tem­po­rary music and extend­ed tech­niques. Over the last years she’s very active as a com­pos­er with com­mis­sions in the field of con­tem­po­rary music, old music, the­atre, visu­al arts and jazz. 

In a review of her lat­est release (Squaring the Circle, 2023) and refer­ring to her record for foghorns and piano (2013), she was described by Clive Bell in The Wire as a com­pos­er whose capac­i­ty for intrigue persists. 

In Belgium she worked close­ly togeth­er and made sev­er­al records with visu­al artists and musi­cians with oth­er back­grounds: jazz, elec­tron­ics, Japanese music, free jazz,…

Improvisation projects have always been present dur­ing her career. She was part of the European Melting Pot in Wroclaw, Istanbul express in Istanbul, Peking express in China, No Choice Toekomstmuziek and so on.

In 2022 she released Squaring the Circle for 4 per­cus­sion­ists and elec­tron­ics and this was her first record­ed call­ing card as a com­pos­er. Now she is prepar­ing a solo record (piano and elec­tron­ics) that will be released by De Werf Records in 2024 and will be pre­sent­ed dur­ing the Bach Academy in the Concertgebouw in Bruges.

She stud­ied com­po­si­tion at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Peter Swinnen, piano in Ghent with Daan Vandewalle and her music appeared on fol­low­ing labels: Entr’acte, El Negocito Records, De Werf records, Logos and Het Balanseer.