Since 2016
01 / Profile
Philippe Lamouris
Composer · Pianist · Professor · Artistic researcher
Belgian-Hungarian musician · born 1991 in Hungary · based in Belgium
Philippe Lamouris is a Belgian-Hungarian composer, pianist, professor and artistic researcher whose work connects composition, performance, research and education. His music has been written for orchestras, chamber ensembles, voices, soloists and participatory projects. As a pianist, he performs his own work alongside late-Romantic and early twentieth-century repertoire, with a particular interest in transcription and orchestral reductions.
02 / Artistic practice
Composition, performance and participation
His works have been performed by the Royal Band of the Belgian Guides, Symphonia Assai, HaftCraft, Tmesis, Woodwork Quintet, Koi Collective, Anemos, Odysseia Ensemble and other ensembles in European concert venues.
Participatory projects include Paradise Regained, the community opera Leedberg and Heavens for choirs and orchestra, bringing together amateurs, students and professional musicians.
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Teaching, research and music education
Current
Artistic researcher · Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
Constraints and Choices: Technical Limitations and Artistic Decision-Making in a Chamber Arrangement of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, beginning 1 October 2026.Current
Teacher · Muziekacademie Schaarbeek
Improvisation and composition, alongside work as an accompanist for instrument classes.Music education
Co-author · Pitched
An educational music method for secondary education used by thousands of students across Flanders.04 / Education
Studies and principal teachers
2021
Ph.D. in the Arts · Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Beyond: A Pianist-Composer’s Reflections on Musical Simplicity, Emotion, and the Soul.2015
Master in Music – Piano · Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
With great distinction; principal teacher Jan Michiels.2014
Master in Music – Composition · Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
With great distinction; principal teacher Jan van Landeghem.2009
Bartók Béla Conservatory · Budapest
Composition with Fekete Győr István; piano with Domokos Kinga and Csáky Katalin.Early studies
Szabolcsi Bence Music School · Hungary
Piano with Hegedűs Ildikó and Balázs Mária.05 / Selected distinctions
2023
First Prize · Concours de composition Andrée Charlier
ACA category · Arctic Desert2019
Third Prize · Leonardo da Vinci’s Fables in Music
Le Papillon and the Candle2015
Prix Lekime Frison for excellence in piano
Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel2015
Semi-finalist and Best National Result for Belgium
International Maurice Ravel Composition Competition2013
Laureate · Odysseia Ensemble Workshop
Tristram and Isolt selected for performance at Bozar, Henry Le Bœuf Hall2012
Second Prize · Graces and Voices
O Crux, Splendidior · no first prize awarded06 / Artistic research
Research through making and performing.
Lamouris’ research combines composition, performance, experimentation and reflective writing. His Ph.D. investigated emotion, expression and musical “simplexity” in late-Romantic music and recontextualised these questions within his own practice.
His current three-year project examines arranging as a meaning-producing practice through a chamber version of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. From 2021 to 2024, he served as Head of the research group Contemporary Music Practices at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.
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