Research Fellow
With interests spanning opera, stage design, early and electronic music, Bruno Forment is the principal investigator of the ‘Resounding Libraries’ research cluster. He also serves as librarian and coordinates open science policy at Orpheus Instituut. Forment studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Ghent and art studies at Ghent University, where he received his doctorate in 2007 on the representation of Greco-Roman mythology in opera seria. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California, he held research and teaching positions at Ghent University, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the School of Arts Ghent. He has been a visiting professor at KU Leuven and the Université Grenoble Alpes. He has also worked for the Baroque orchestra Il Fondamento, coordinated the classical music department at the Royal Conservatoire of Ghent, and led a research project at CEMPER, the Flemish Centre for Performing Arts heritage.
His recent publications include an introduction to Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Leuven University Press and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (2025) and the edited volume Performing by the Book? Musical Negotiations between Text and Act (Leuven University Press, 2024). His monograph Droomlanders: Tovenaars van het geschilderde toneeldecor (Standaard Uitgeverij / Davidsfonds, 2021) drew wide attention in both academic and heritage circles.
Forment has received the Heritage Award of the Province of West Flanders (2017) and the Jacques Handschin Prize of the Swiss Musicological Society (2009). He led the Research Commission of OISTAT and the ‘Performances’ Working Group in the COST Action EarlyMuse, and served on the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Music.
