Geert Callaert

The virtuoso pianist, composer and author Geert Callaert is much sought after as a soloist and chamber musician at home and abroad because of his large and virtuoso repertoire, ranging across the whole gamut from classical to new music. His compositions and writing abilities have constantly gained interest worldwide. He collaborated on different film scorings as a performer and his name pops up on a regular base in the credits of films such as High Rise and many others. He is currently a professor piano in the Master of Music Programme of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Different composers - Marc Yeats (UK), Robert Groslot (Belgium), Michael Sahl (USA), Idin Samimi Mofakham (Iran), Martyna Kosecka (Poland), Kee Yong Chong (Singapore), Michael Sahl (USA) - have written their most beautiful piano music for him. Geert Callaert is a member of the artistic board, a co-founder of the HERMESensemble and a core performer in the ensemble. He often collaborates with different professional ensembles and orchestras in Belgium and he is a welcome guest at festivals and international competitions worldwide. In May and June 2015 he has performed Green Table during the concert tour "In Flanders Fields" with Operaballet Vlaanderen. April 2016 he was performing all Persian and Belgian new music as a star soloist at the First Contemporary Music Festival in Tehran (Iran). He has published different articles and texts in the past on contemporary music and art in general for different occasions. September-October 2017 and March-April 2018 he has been a music director for two new productions with the Royal Ballet of Flanders creating new music by Gavin Bryars with stage director Edouard Lock.