ADVANCED MASTER
Royal Conservatory / School of Arts Ghent (B), ICTUS & SPECTRA
Those choosing the ADVANCED MASTER in Contemporary Music programme at the Royal Conservatory / School of Arts Ghent work under the guidance of the Ictus and Spectra contemporary music ensembles, on projects with an emphatic focus on recently composed music. Students specialize in contemporary music, as soloists or members of an ensemble. They play an active role in creating new works by both young and established composers. [MORE INFOS]
The GAME
The Ghent Advanced Master Ensemble aka GAME unites different collaborations between students of the advanced master programme contemporary music of the Ghent Conservatory. [The GAME Facebook group]
STUDENTS 2024-2025
(OVERVIEW ON 25-26: see below)
Students 1st Year
Liese Lotte Bekaert: Percussion
Rodrigo Evangelista: Piano
Ali ChoupaniNejad: Flute
Helena Ruiz Sanchez: Violin
Julen Latorre Urbaneta: Clarinet
Students 2nd Year
Alejandro Fenollosa Beltran: Saxophone
Inaki Marcos Bueno: Clarinet
Hui-Chi Li: Percussion
Edoardo Parente: Percussion
Eleonora Serani: Harp
Anna Svetlakova: Flute
WORKSHOPS, MASTERCLASSES & CONCERTS 2024-25
30 September to 2 October 2024,
Ikbal Lubys & Aii Wijayanti Anik: workshop about improvisation
@ Q-O2 Brussels, Performance 2 October in the evening
2 October 2024
Ruiskamer #1 (support act for Sosena Gebre Eyesus)
@ Miry Concert Hall Gent
Eleonora Serani: solo harp
17/ or 18 October 2024
Workshop audio technique: 10-17h @ Q-O2 Brussels
Coach: Claudia Profanter
11 to 14 November 2024
Workshop + concert: @ KASK/Conservatorium Gent, Miry Concert Hall
Coach: Liisa Hirsch
19 November 2024
Concert: @ Theater Marni, Brussels, Festival Ars Musica - Game percussionists with Trio Erämaa and Quartetto Prometeo
4 December 2024
Ruiskamer #3: Marimba Phase on micro marimbas (support act for Morton Feldman's "Three Voices" by Maris Pajuste)
Hui-Chi Li and Edoardo Parente: percussion
7 December 2024 (Set-Up 6 December)
Concert: @ De Bijloke Gent, Ear to the Ground Festival
Coaches: Svetlana Maras, Benjamin Van Esser, Tom De Cock
11 or 12 January 2025 TBC
Curating Lab: 10-17h @ Wilde Westen Kortrijk
Speakers: TBC
27 January to 7 February 2025
Braxton Toolbox: 10-13h @ P.A.R.T.S. Brussels
Coaches: Ictus & Rosas
5 or 12 February 2025
Ruiskamer #4 Support Act
19 to 21 February 2025
Sciarrino Conference + internal concerts: @ Orpheus Institute Gent
Coaches: various international speakers and coaches
Concert: 20 February
9 to 12 March 2025
Workshop + concert: @ KASK/Conservatorium Gent, Miry Concert
Ruiskamer #5 Support Act
23 April 2025
Ruiskamer #6 Support Act
8 to 11 May 2925
Workshop + concert: Ictus Project: Georges-Elie Octors Legacy: @ Ictus Studios Brussels
Coaches: Georges-Elie Octors, Tom De Cock
20 to 23 May 2025
Workshop + Concert: @ SMOG Brussels
Coach: Marie Delprat
Follow the GAME ensemble on their blog.
OVERVIEW 2025-26
29 September until 2 October 2025
Nacht van de Verbeelding organised by Festival van Vlaanderen Gent, coach Aïda Gabriëls.
Three museums are curated by Aïda and GAME, performances and installations.
Program options for now: 1+1=1 van Billone for 2 bass clarinets by Julen and Inaki,
Bycicle piece by Ali Choupani Nejad,
Euler’s discs participative installation,
Fishbowl installation by Edoardo.
Second half of October, probably 13-16 October 2025
workshop and concert with Auguste Vickunaite
@ Q-O2 Brussel.
30 October 2025
Ruiskamer #1 met Masayoshi Fujita
@ Miry Concertzaal, GAME support act.
The rest of the Ruiskamer dates will be decided in the coming weeks. Always on Wednesdays, basically one Ruiskamer per month.
10 until 14 November 2025
Projectweek with composer Maya Verlaak @ Conservatorium Gent.
27 & 28 November 2025
Preparatory workshop @ Conservatorium Gent with Alexandre Babel and Stéphane Garin for the performance in Bozar in January.
13 > 21 December 2025
Stadssymfonie with Heleen Vanhaegenborgh en Thomas Verstraeten in de Singel, Antwerp.
Participatory project where you will be in charge of a group of amateur musicians, building an ‘orchestra’ with daily objects and tools. We will collaborate with KCB and Conservatorium Antwerpen.
17 until 18 January 2026
Bozar Percussion Festival @ Hortahal Bozar: Pauline Oliveiros with coaches Alexandre Babel and Stéphane Garin. Not only for percussionists! Everyone can join!
26 January until 1 February 2026
Preparation and public showing of the opening of the new Van Volxemsite of Rosas and Ictus: Hoketus by Louis Andriessen with PARTS and other repertoire.
First half of February 2026
Option to re-perform RLLR.XXL by Sartorius at the Van Volxemsite.
16-22 February 2026
Spinrag Festival Kortrijk: NEST performances within the festival like this year.The Curating Lab will most probably be imbedded in this festival week, so we can bring the talks in practice directly.
9 >13 March 2026
Interdisciplinary projectweek with composer Sarah Wéry @ KASK/Conservatorium Gent
Between 13 and 26 April 2026
SMOG workshop with Vera Cavallin and Pak Yan Lau. Concert with the output of this workshop in the last Ruiskamer in Gent.
First half of May
with presentations in the week of 11 May 2026: Trio’s with the dancers of PARTS.
Follow the GAME ensemble on their blog.
Contact
Joris Blanckaert (Ghent School of Arts)
Tom De Cock (Ictus)
ALUMNI 2009-2024
They followed the Advanced Master cursus:
Konstantinos Andreou
Sara Baldini
Marieke Berendsen
Jacqueline Bernd
Kalliope Bolovinou
Romy-Alice Bols
Ruben Borges
Ana-Filipa Botelho
Jasper Braet
Anita Cappuccinelli
Alberto Cavallaro
Fabian Coomans
Nico Couck
Anne Davids
Cédric De Bruycker
Pieter Delaere
Véronique Delcambre
Marina Delicado
Chrissy Dimitriou
Teresa Doblinger
Maria Dominguez Perez
Kaja Farszky
Simon Florin
Nina Fukuoka
Amaury Geens
Nele Geubels
Filippo Gillono
Sinouhé Gilot
Ward Ginneberge
Camille Guénot
Elliott Harrison
Iryna Hrytsiv
Andres Ibanez
Anna Sakham Jalving
Maria-José Jeannin
Jona Kesteleyn
Tatevik Khoja-Eynatuan
Hyeyoung Kim
Miho Kiyokawa
Corey Klein
Hanna Kölbel
Matthias Koole
Kaya Kuwabara
Pieter Lenaerts
Clara Levy
Pablo Paz Lopez
Benjamin Maneyrol
Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg
Elisa Medinilla
Leonardo Melchionda
Sara Méndez
Lucas Messler
Quentin Meurisse
Felix Nagl
Rubén Martinez Orio
Charlotte Otte
Maris Pajuste
Pieter Pellens
Sara Picavet
Gian Ponte
Carlo Prampolini
Hugo Ranilla
Hannah Reardon-Smith
Catherina Roberti
Mar Sala Romagosa
Francisco Rojas Huertas
Gwenaëlle Rouger
Adam Rosenblatt
Christopher Salvito
Carlo Sampaolesi
Sara Sanchez
Dejana Sekulić
Carlo Siega
Tania Sikelianou
Primož Sukič
Aya Suzuki
Tomoko Taguchi
Tomonori Takeda
Denise Tamburi
Federico Tramontana
Jutta Troch
Yukari Uekawa
Sjors van der Mark
Erika Vega
Seth Parker Woods
Noriko Yakushiji
An Zeeuwst
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