ALBUMGabriel Yared - Music For FilmBrussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMMychael Danna (Music for Film)Brussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMShigeru Umebayashi: Music for FilmBrussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMBrossé: Guilty PleasuresEliane Reyes
ALBUMVan Eyck RevisitedEddy Vanoosthuyse
ALBUMWorld Soundtrack Awards - Tribute To The Film ComposerBrussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMA Symphonic Journey from Philly to UtopiaDirk Brossé & Brussels Philharmonic
ALBUMBrossé: Juanelo 'Charles V-Oratorio'Anne Cambier, Flemish Radio Choir, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Guy De Mey, Derek Lee Ragin & Dirk Snellings
ALBUMMarco Beltrami (Music for Film)Brussells Philharmonic & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMLowie Wolf Hoeyberghs: La MascaradeThe Flanders Symphony Orchestra & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMPaul Hindemith Horn Concerto and SonatasLuc Van Marcke, Dirk Brossé, Daniel Capelletti & Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMCello Concerto for IsabelleDirk Brossé & Marie Hallynck
ALBUMKnielen op een bed violen (Original Film Music)Dirk Brossé
ALBUMLokumbe: Can You Hear God Crying?The Celebration Choir, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Dirk Brossé, Janice Chandler-Eteme, Rodrick Dixon, Paula Holloway, Homayun Sakhi, The Music Liberation Orchestra & Alyn E. Waller
ALBUM1418 De MusicalDirk Brossé & 1418
ALBUMDirk Brosse: Musical PostcardsRoyal WindBand Schelle & Dirk de Caluwé
ALBUMIn Flanders' Fields Vol. 73: Flowers for the Bass ClarinetJan Guns, Rita Rommes, Anastasia Koszushko & Moscow Chamber Soloists
ALBUMFrom Belgium with Love (1)Eddy Vanoosthuyse
ALBUMStrauss: Famous Orchestral SongsShanghai Opera House Orchestra, Qilian Chen & Dirk Brossé
ALBUMWeber to TangoMargaret Wilson
ALBUMFrom IO to DandiBelgian Brass
ALBUMLibertang[o]sLuc Tooten & Stéphane De May
ALBUMKlezmer Classicsディルク・ブロッセ/大阪市音楽団
ALBUMWar ConcertoDirk Brossé, The Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides, Eddy Vanoosthuyse & Jan Wijenberg
ALBUMMusicThe Johan Willem Friso Military Band, Tijmen Botma, Jan de Haan & Alex Schillings
ALBUMYellow MountainsThe J.W.F. Military Band & Alex Schillings
ALBUMPremièreSymphonic Brass & Tijmen Botma
ALBUMFirestormThe Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides & Norbert Nozy
ALBUMJust MusicLéo Delibes, Jan de Haan & The Band of the Royal Netherlands Air Force
ALBUMMarieDirk Brossé
ALBUM7 Inch FramedThe Royal Military Band & Pierre Kuijpers
ALBUMDaensDirk Brossé & The New Belgian Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMLa Soledad de America Latina (Original Score)Dirk Brossé
ALBUMTrumpet TracksThe Brussels Trumpet Choir
ALBUMEl Golpe FatalThe Royal Military band (Army) & Pierre Kuijpers
ALBUMMark Isham - Music For FilmBrussels Philharmonic, Dirk Brossé & Mark Isham
ALBUMBoerenpsalm (Original Score)Dirk Brossé
About Dirk Brossé
Artist Biography
Belgian-born Dirk Brossé is a composer and conductor whose dual careers veered into many directions, including composing oratorios, musicals, and film scores, and conducting both symphonies and whole concerts devoted to film music. Not surprisingly, his compositional style is quite eclectic, from the exotic orchestral work The Birth of Music -- An Ethno Classical Symphony (1997) to his fairytale musical The Prince of Africa (2002). He has written over 200 works in varied genres, including more than 20 film scores, among them Koko Flanel (1989), Daens (1992), and When The Light Comes (1998). Brossé has also led orchestras on film soundtracks, as with Elliot Goldenthal's score for The Good Thief (2002), which starred Nick Nolte. In addition, he has famously conducted many concert presentations of the John Williams music from the Star Wars series. Brossé has conducted major orchestras throughout Europe, the U.K., and U.S., and has made numerous recordings as a conductor. Many of his compositions are available on the EMI label.
Dirk Brossé was born in Heusden, Belgium, on February 18, 1960. He earned a degree in music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. He later took up studies with Volker Wangenheim at the Cologne Musikhochschule, earning a diploma in conducting. He took further conducting courses at the Vienna Musikhochschule.
In the 1980s Brossé served as music director of two youth orchestras, the National Youth Orchestra of Belgium (until 1989) and the Brussels International Youth Orchestra (until 1990). Meanwhile, he was turning out such scores as the 1986 orchestral work On Safari, the choral piece Sanctus (1989), and the score for the 1992 Academy Award nominee, Daens.
Throughout the 1990s Brossé remained busy as a composer and conductor, in the latter capacity leading mostly second-tier ensembles. His 1995 First Symphony, "Artesia," was a great success and was eventually issued on a Philips CD. From 1999, Brossé has served as musical host at the Ghent-based International Flanders Film Festival.
From 2001, Brossé began conducting many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and Rotterdam Philharmonic. Brossé continued to have success as a composer, as well, as evidenced by his 2007 song cycle The American Dream, on texts by Martin Luther King and Angelina Weld Grimké.
From 2009, Brossé has regularly led highly successful and highly publicized concerts that feature music from the Star Wars films. At these concerts, excerpts from the six films are shown and live narrators are used. Busy though he is as a composer and conductor, Brossé also serves as professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent.
Hometown
Heusden, Belgium
Genre
Classical
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