Michel Lysight
Michel Lysight (born 1958) is a Belgian-Canadian composer from Brussels. After two years studying art history, he studied at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, where he won top prizes in music history, music theory, psycho-pedagogy, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and bassoon, and later earned advanced degrees in music theory and chamber music.
He has worked as an orchestra conductor with René Defossez and Robert Janssens, earning first prize with distinction in 1997 and a higher diploma in 2002. His first composition prize came in 1989 at the Conservatoire royal de Mons. Quatrain for wind quartet won the 1990 Prix Irene Fuerison from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, and in 1992 he received a Silver Medal with mention from the Académie Internationale de Lutèce in Paris. In 1997 he won the Trophée Fuga from the Union of Belgian Composers for his work promoting the national repertoire. Influenced by Steve Reich, John Adams, Arvo Pärt, and Henryk Górecki, Lysight is a leading figure of the Nouvelle musique consonante movement in Belgium.
Lysight is a member of SABAM, the Union of Belgian Composers, and CeBeDeM. He has written about a hundred works, many of which have been recorded, and most are published by Alain Van Kerckhoven Éditeur. He teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and at the academies of Schaerbeek and Brussels. He regularly gives lectures on contemporary music, chairs the jury of the Kaufmann European Music Competition, and has been a visiting professor at Bilkent University in Ankara.
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