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Mar 01, 1956 Duffel, Flemish Region, Belgium 68 years old
Belgian composer
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About Jan Van Der Roost
- Jan Van der Roost (born Duffel, 1956) is a Belgian composer. Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (1974-1979), and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp.
- Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Lemmensinstituut.
- He currently also is a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of Music, Tokyo and the Nagoya University of Arts. Jan Van der Roost has composed over 90 works; most are for winds, like brass band, fanfare, and concert band, but some are for orchestra or choir.
- He has also dabbled in composing various pieces in the style of late 17th- to early 18th-century dance music, and is often cited by Tom Collier and Tom Slabaugh in their lectures as a prime example of music transformation.
