ARTISTIC leader Dirk Brossé
Dirk Brossé has worked worldwide for over 45 years as a composer and conductor. He is currently Conductor Emeritus of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Music Director of Film Fest Ghent / World Soundtrack Awards, and Honorary Conductor of Sinfonietta Cracovia and Prima La Musica. John Williams personally selected him as Principal Conductor for the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. He previously served as Professor of Composition and Orchestral Conducting at the School of Arts / Royal Conservatory of Ghent.
Dirk Brossé has composed more than 1,800 works, including concertos, oratorios, songs, chamber music, symphonic works, and music for theatre, film and television. He has conducted more than 3,500 concerts worldwide, working with over 130 orchestras. His compositions span theatre, musical theatre, film and television. His score for the British BBC/HBO series Parade’s End was nominated for an Emmy Award.
He has made more than 200 CD recordings and has collaborated with world-class artists such
as José Van Dam, Barbara Hendricks, Julia Migenes, Claron McFadden, Julian Lloyd
Webber, Sabine Meyer, Alison Balsom, Salvatore Accardo, John Williams, Toots
Thielemans, Gabriel Yared, Hans Zimmer, Elmer Bernstein, Emma Thompson, Kenneth
Branagh, Randy Crawford, Lisa Gerrard, Mel Brooks, Sinead O’ Connor, Maurice
Jarre, Michel Legrand, Youssou N’Dour, Marcel Khalifé, John Malkovich. He has
worked with directors Stijn Coninx, Frank Van Laecke, Susanna White and Roland Joffé,
and with writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Seth Gaaikema and Didier Van Cauwelaert.
He has collaborated with directors Stijn Coninx, Frank Van Laecke, Susanna White and Roland Joffé, as well as writers Gabriel García Márquez, Seth Gaaikema and Didier Van Cauwelaert. Dirk Brossé has conducted numerous leading orchestras in Belgium and abroad, including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra de Lyon, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the philharmonic orchestras of Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Rotterdam, Basel, Madrid, Porto, Birmingham, Ulster, Shanghai, Liverpool, Hong Kong, Seoul, Queensland, St Petersburg, Los Angeles, Volgograd, Caracas, Hiroshima, Osaka, Tokyo, Munich, Dublin, Kraków and Budapest.
In 2008, he made his debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London alongside the London Symphony Orchestra. In February 2016, Dirk Brossé made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Dirk Brossé has been appointed Cultural Ambassador of Flanders and has received the Golden Medal of Honour of the Flemish Parliament, the Achille Van Acker Prize, the Joseph Plateau Award, and the Award for Excellence in Cultural Creativity from the Global Thinkers Forum. Since 2010, he has been an Honorary Citizen of Destelbergen.
In 2013, Dirk Brossé was granted hereditary nobility with the personal title of Knight. He is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and a Fellow in Arts & Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2018, he was appointed Commander of the Order of Leopold.