Artist Talk with Stefan Prins

Stefan Prins (Belgium, 1979) is a composer and performer whose music often includes and
reflects on contemporary technologies and new media, thematizing their relationship with
the physical, performing body and the environments it inhabits.

After graduating as an engineer, he studied piano, composition and music technology at the Royal Flemish Conservatory, Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at Harvard University under the guidance of Chaya Czernowin. He received many international awards such as the “Kunstpreis Berlin für Musik”, “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Komposition” or the “ISCM Young Composers Award”.

He has collaborated closely with Nadar Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nikel Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Trio Accanto, Arditti Quartet, MusikFabrik, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and soloists such as Yaron Deutsch, Stephane Ginsburgh, Rei Nakamura, Florentin Ginot, Severine Ballon & Ning Yu. Together with Pieter Matthynssens, he is artistic director of the Nadar Ensemble. Prins also performs regularly in the improvised music scene (electronics), amongst others with Yaron Deutsch in the Ministry of Bad Decisions.

He is a sought-after teacher and has served as a professor of composition and director of the Hybrid Music Lab at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden since 2020.