Roland Coryn

Category:componist, hedendaagse componist, koor
Kortrijk, 21.12.1938
Genre(s):20ste eeuw, 21ste eeuw / hedendaags
Instrument(s):altviool, piano

Biography

Coryn, Roland (born December 21, 1938 at Courtrai). Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral and piano music that has been performed throughout Europe.

He studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent, where he won several First Prizes as a performer ( pianist and violist) and as a composer.

After being active as a violin- and a piano teacher, he became headmaster of the Music Academy 'Peter Benoit' of his hometown Harelbeke. At the same time and until his retirement in 1997, he was consecutively professor of chamber music, harmony, counterpoint, fugue and musical composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent.

At the start of his musical career, he was mainly active as a performer. But after a few years he devoted himself entirely to composition and teaching. During this period as a professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music in Ghent, he conducted 'The New Music Ensemble', which premiered many Flemish new pieces and also notable works by Louis Andriessen, Maurizio Kagel, Kaija Saariaho and Giacinto Scelsi among other composers.

His honors include the Tenuto Prize (1973), the Jef Van Hoof Prize (1974), the Koopal Prize for his chamber music (1986) and the Visser-Neerlandia Prize in Den Haag (1999) for the whole of his compositional oeuvre. He is a permanent member of the Class of Arts of The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts since 1993. In 2019, he was appointed as honorary member.

In cooperation with the city council of his hometown, Harelbeke, he organized from 2000 to 2012 a Biannual International Composition Contest,'Harelbeke, Town of Music' for new symphonic band music. In alternation with the previous contest, he was the curator of a Music Biannual, a series of concerts on a prefixed theme which was always devoted to the music history of Flanders and by extension of Belgium.

Selectieve discografie als componist

Virtuoso music for solo cello in BelgiumVirtuoso music for solo cello in Belgium (2022)
20th century, 21st century / contemporary, romanticism
Herwig Coryn, Dirk Brossé, Roland Coryn, André Laporte, Lucien Posman, Rudi Tas, Piet Swerts, Luc Van Hove (...)
World Première Recordings - A meeting with Roland CorynWorld Première Recordings - A meeting with Roland Coryn (2013)
21st century / contemporary
Aquarius, Roland Coryn, Marc Michael De Smet
World Première Recordings - 'Reflections on a Song'World Première Recordings - 'Reflections on a Song' (2013)
20th century, 21st century / contemporary
Erik Desimpelaere, Elias Gistelinck, David Desimpelaere, Joseph Jongen, Frédéric Devreese, Erik Desimpelaere, Roland Coryn
Am Siebenten TageAm Siebenten Tage (2013)
choir music, 20th century
Camerata Musica Limburg, Kurt Bikkembergs, Jan Schumacher, Roland Coryn, Vic Nees, Maarten Van Ingelgem, Rudi Tas, Noor Sommereyns (...)
Kaleidoscope - kamermuziek van Vlaamse componistenKaleidoscope - kamermuziek van Vlaamse componisten (2012)
21st century / contemporary
Arco Baleno, Pieter Schuermans, Stéphane Vande Ginste, Roland Coryn, Marc Matthys
Contemporary Music in Flanders VIIContemporary Music in Flanders VII (2011)
20th century
Walter Boudreau, Dirk Blockeel, Jan Wauters, Roland Coryn, Isabelle Brys, Jean Louel, Bart Bouckaert, Frederik Neyrinck (...)
Harelbeekse ComponistenHarelbeekse Componisten (2011)
20th century
Quintessens, Erik Desimpelaere, Astria, Jan Decadt, Erik Desimpelaere, Elias Gistelinck, Roland Coryn
Lexicon van de muziek in West-Vlaanderen 5Lexicon van de muziek in West-Vlaanderen 5 (2007)
20th century
Luk Vaes, Hans Ryckelynck, Frank Agsteribbe, Marcel Ketels, Philippe Souvagie, Peter Pieters, Jan Devlieger, Herman Roelstraete (...)
De nieuwe oogst. Nationale Koorcompositiewedstrijd 2007De nieuwe oogst. Nationale Koorcompositiewedstrijd 2007 (2007)
20th century
Capella di voce, Jacqueline Fontyn, Ludo Claesen, Ludo Geloen, Kurt Bikkembergs, Sebastiaan Van Steenberge, Martin Slootmaekers, Noor Sommereyns (...)
Lexicon van de muziek in West-Vlaanderen 2Lexicon van de muziek in West-Vlaanderen 2 (2003)
20th century
Frank Coppieters, France Springuel, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Vlaams Radiokoor (VRK), I Musici Fiamminghi, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, BRTN Filharmonisch Orkest, Filip Suys (...)

Related Items

Documents:Nieuwe koormuziek in Vlaanderen (thesis)
Contemporary Music in Flanders VII (book)
External links:Componistenfiche Roland Coryn