Philippe Lamouris

Composer - Performer

Philippe Lamouris was born in 1991 in Hungary. He started taking music lessons at the age of 5. After studying piano with Hegedûs Ildikó and Balázs Mária at the Szabolcsi Bence music school, he continued his studies at the Bartók Béla Conservatory of Budapest, where he studied composition with Fekete Gyôr István and piano with Domokos Kinga and Csáky Katalin. 


In 2009, Lamouris relocated to Belgium to pursue advanced studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel). There, he earned a "Master in Music – Composition" with distinction in 2014 under the mentorship of Professor Jan van Landeghem. Subsequently, he achieved another distinction in "Master in Music – Piano" in 2015, guided by Professor Jan Michiels. In 2021, he secured his Ph.D. in the Arts with a dissertation titled "Beyond: A Pianist-Composer’s Reflections on Musical Simplicity, Emotion, and the Soul."


Since 2016, Lamouris has served as a professor at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, where he imparts knowledge on topics ranging from analysis of musical forms to artistic research practices, applied harmony, and orchestration.

He is also a researcher and responsible for the research group on contemporary music practices.

Additionally, he shares his expertise in improvisation and composition at the Music Academy of Schaarbeek and accompanies multiple instrument classes


His compositions have been awarded multiple prizes in various composition competitions in Europe, and have been performed in various concert halls during the last few years. He regularly performs as a soloist, playing music of the late Romantic period, his own compositions, or improvisations.