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First name: Geert van der
Last name: Straeten
Dates: 1962
Category: Quartet
Nationality: belgian
Opus name: Caleidoscoop opus 14 (1998)
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Information: Geert Van der Straeten was born on 15 November 1962 in Hamme, East Flanders. He studied music at the Municipal Music Academy in Dendermonde, the Arts Secondary School in Ghent and then at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, where he earned first prizes in solfège, harmony, counterpoint and fugue. He also received laureate diplomas in music education and compostion, and the meestergraad diploma in compostion with Luc Van Hove. At present, Van der Straeten teaches harmony, practical harmony and music analysis at the Lemmens Institute, and is a teacher of general music education at the Municipal Academy for Music and Word in Hoboken. He has written a number of works as commissions for the Lemmens Institute, the Rode Pomp, the Kempen Oratorio Society, the Kalison Brass Ensemble, the Corona Piano Trio and the publishers Plantyn, Euprint, Averbode and Musicerende Jeugd. In 2001 one of his compositions was selected as the compulsory work for the East Flanders provincial choral competition. In 2002 the Royal Academy for Dutch Linguistics and Literature awarded him the Karel Boury Prize for his songs on texts by Christina Guirlande. In 2002 as well, compositions and manuscripts by Geert Van der Straeten formed part of an exhibition of composers from Dendermonde, as part of the project “Dendermonde on the music staff”. (http://www.matrix-new-music.be/en/composer/van-der-straeten-geert-1962)