Annelies Van Parys

Annelies Van Parys (°1975) is one of Belgium’s leading composers. She writes solo and chamber music works as well as large orchestral compositions with a great preference for music theatre. Since 2007, as a resident composer of Muziektheater Transparant, she wrote a lot of music theatrical works. Amongst them some remarkable pieces such as RUHE, An Oresteïa and Private View, her first opera that one no less than five prizes including the Fedora-Rolf Lieberman Prize. Together with librettist Gaea Schoeters, she wrote the opera USHER, as a direct commission of Staatsoper Berlin and Folkoperan Stockholm where it was performed in resp. 2018 and 2019 with a revival already in 2020 in Berlin. The opera was nominated for the coveted Opera Awards. She also received lots of praise for A War Requiem for the Belgian National Orchestra and Collegium Vocale Ghent, with Sophie Karthauser and Thomas Bauer as soloists and Hugh Wolff as a conductor that was the closing event of the official commemorations of WWI in Belgium. Her most recent orchestra composition is a commission for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and will be premiered in January 2021 under the baton of Matthias Pintscher.
More information: www.anneliesvanparys.be