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Bernard Baert was born on 4 October 1963 in Waregem. He grew up in a musical family - his father was director of the Waregem music academy, where Bernard pursued his first musical studies. At the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, where he studied with Louis Pas and Claude Coppens (piano) and Roland Coryn (composition), he was awarded first prizes for solfège, piano, music history, theoretical and practical harmony, chamber music, counterpoint, fugue and composition. He also received a higher diploma and teaching certificate for piano. He took additional summer courses in piano from Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Daniel Blumenthal and Robert Groslot. From 1987 to 1997 he taught theory at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, and is currently a teacher of piano, ensemble playing and accompaniment at the Waregem music academy, where he also is an accompanist. He has received several prizes for his compositions, including the SABAM prize for his Woodwind Quintet (1994) and the Jef Van Hoof Prijs for his Piano trio (1995).
The works of Bernard Baert can be divided into two groups, youthful compositions written before studying with Roland Coryn, and those written in 1991 and afterwards.
Baert considers the latter group his real, full-fledged compositions, and thus only they have been given opus numbers. There is also an aesthetic and technical evolution in this group.
To contact the composer: bernard-baert@freegates.be |