Luc Van Hove

Luc Van Hove (born 1957, Wilrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Luc Van Hove received his musical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He studied composition with Willem Kersters and music analysis with August Verbesselt. Afterwards he pursued advanced studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (orchestral conducting) and at the University of Surrey. He has gained several awards, including the Sabam Prize for Contemporary Music (1993). He is an honorary professor of composition and music analysis at Luca, School of Arts, campus Lemmensinstituut of Leuven and former professor of composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, department of the Artesis Plantijn University College of Antwerp. He is also a former extraordinary professor at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts (President of the Class of the Arts in 2011), and Commander in the Order of Leopold II. Luc Van Hove received commissions from and was performed by numerous Belgian orchestras, ensembles and soloists, e.g. the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Flemish Radio Orchestra (Brussels