Wim Henderickx

Wim Henderickx (Dutch: [ʋɪm ˈɦɛndərɪks]; 17 March 1962 – 18 December 2022) was a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music.

He was composer in residence at Muziektheater Transparant and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, writing operas and other stage works.

From 2000 he was the main coach of the Summer Composition Course SoundMine for young composers at Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof in Neerpelt.

[2] He was influenced by Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti and Béla Bartók.

He wrote Mysterium (1989) for 10 woodwinds,[2] OM (1992) for string quartet,[5] and Dawn (1992) for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and instrumental ensemble.

[6] His opera Triumph of Spirit over Matter [nl] (2000) was commissioned by Muziektheater Transparant and toured in Belgium and the Netherlands.

[1][2][12] Medea for music theatre toured Belgium and the Netherlands in 2011–2013 with HERMESensemble and four actors of the Dutch Veenfabriek and Wim Henderickx as conductor.

[16] In May 2015, his large choral work Visioni ed Estasi premiered with 200 singers, both professional and amateurs, at the St. Rumbold's Cathedral, during the Flanders Festival in Mechelen with James Wood as the general conductor.

[17] In April 2017 the music theatre production Revelations premiered at the Opera21 Festival in Antwerp with Muziektheater Transparant, Cappella Amsterdam, and the HERMESensemble.

[2] Albums with music by Henderickx include: Henderickx received the Jeugd-en Muziekprijs Vlaanderen, the International Composition Prize for Contemporary Music in Quebec, Canada, and the triennial E. Baie I prize for a talented Flemish artist in 1999 from the province of Antwerp.

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