Research Fellow and docARTES coordinator
Luk Vaes studied piano with a.o. Claude Coppens (Belgium), Aloys Kontarsky (Germany) and Yvar Mikhashoff (US), won first prizes in several international competitions, concertized with musicians such as Uri Caine and Thomas Quasthoff at the most renowned festivals in the EU and US, and worked with composers such as John Cage, George Crumb, Earle Brown, Mauricio Kagel, etc.
His recordings of piano works of Mauricio Kagel (Winter & Winter) won nine international prizes. In 2009 he obtained his doctorate at Leiden University (through the docARTES programme). His dissertation on the theory, history and performance practice of extended piano techniques has since enjoyed widespread usage by practitioners.
Currently he is fellow in artistic research of the Orpheus Research Centre, coordinates the doctoral program for artists (docARTES) at the Orpheus Institute and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Links
Luk's blog: artisticresearchreports.blogspot.be
Academiu.eu: orpheusinstituut.academia.edu/LVaes
Dissertation: Extended piano techniques: in theory, history and performance practice
Website: Extended piano techniques
