BIO
Diederik Glorieux is a composer, conductor, performer, researcher, teacher and music engraver. His work brings together diverse musicians and makers, exploring the interplay between creation, performance, improvisation and artistic transmission.
Diederik Glorieux is a composer, conductor, performer, researcher, teacher and music engraver. In his artistic practice, he brings together young people, amateur artists and crip artists with specialised musicians and ensembles. His work explores forms in which creation and performance, clear rules and free improvisation, and musicians and audiences enter into dialogue.
Between 2005 and 2022, he was musical assistant to composer Wim Henderickx. Today, he works on preserving, protecting and further opening up Henderickx’s legacy. Since September 2023, he has been a research associate at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, within the research group Labo XIX&XX.
As a teacher, Diederik Glorieux is affiliated with the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and with the academies of Harelbeke and Ieper. In 2019, he founded vzw Huniyāgar, an organisation dedicated to music creation and music engraving.
conductor-performer
Diederik Glorieux does not shy away from any adventure. In his productions, he brings together young people and amateur or crip artists with specialised musicians or ensembles. As a performing musician, conductor and composer, he allows the roles of creating and performing artist to merge as much as possible, breaking down the hierarchy between the musicians.
composer-sound performer
The compositions of Diederik Glorieux are invariably an attempt to understand the world and take on diverse forms: sound explosions, quiet works and playful, unpretentious, whimsical musical works.
In his sound performances, he explores the tension between clear rules and free improvisation. The free sounds in the performances establish communication both among the musicians themselves and between the musicians and the audience.
researcher
Between 2005 and 2022, Diederik Glorieux was musical assistant to composer Wim Henderickx. He was closely involved in the realisation of various works and productions and created several works, including Antifoon, Colors and Visioni ed Estasi. At present, together with the family and various partners in the cultural field, he focuses his attention on inventorying, preserving and protecting the legacy of Wim Henderickx.
From September 2023, Diederik Glorieux has been a research associate at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. Within the research group Labo XIX&XX, he worked during the 2023-2024 academic year on the project ‘Infinizio, the graphic score as a tool in the performance of the music of Wim Henderickx’. From the 2025-2026 academic year onwards, he is working on the research project ‘Silence… a critical interpretation and realisation of unfinished works by Wim Henderickx’.
Between October 2023 and December 2024, Diederik Glorieux was, at the request of HERMESensemble, principal researcher in the project ‘Legacy of Wim Henderickx’. This project is co-supported by the heritage library of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, the research group Labo XIX&XX of the same conservatoire, Cemper v.z.w. and Huniyāgar vzw. Since then, the project has been continued at the request of the Stichting Henderickx vzw.
teacher
For more than two decades, Diederik Glorieux was Wim Henderickx’s right-hand man during the MUSICA composition course SOUNDMINE. Composer, teacher and inspirer Wim Henderickx guided hundreds of young composers from all corners of the world during this course. Together with Jorrit Tamminga, he continues the course, keeping Wim Henderickx’s didactic insights and mission alive.
As a teacher, Diederik Glorieux is affiliated with the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and teaches at the academies of Harelbeke (H.A.P!) and Ieper (Dé Academie).
music engraver
Diederik Glorieux founded vzw Huniyāgar in 2019. An organisation dedicated to music creation and music engraving.
education
Diederik Glorieux obtained his master’s degree in music theory and composition under the guidance of Wim Henderickx, Luc Van Hove and Christian Vereecke. He subsequently studied recorder and choral conducting.
In 2014, he won the Music Prize for Ensemble of the province of West Flanders, and in 2015 he was honoured by the municipality of Zwevegem for ‘Cultural Merit’.