Sander De Keere

Education

2026


2015

Professional Experience

2015 - present

2024 - present


2025 - present


2020 - present





2015 - present

Performance Experience

(selection)

BA, Composition, Royal Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium
(composition teacher: Daan Janssens)

MA, Musicology, with great distinction, Ghent University, Belgium.
(thesis about Philip Glass’ (post)minimalist techniques in the film opera La Belle et la Bête)

radio host & music editor, Klara (classical music radio station)
VRT (Flemish public service broadcaster of Belgium)

podcast creator ‘Eerste Hulp bij Klassiek’ (‘First Aid for Classic Music’)
75 episodes, Klara (VRT)

lecturer classical music ‘Klassiek met De Keere’
Ancienne Belgique, Brussels

podcast creator ‘Bucket List’ for Brussels Philharmonic
24 episodes

podcast creator ‘Vocal Fabrik’ for the Flemish Radio Choir
14 episodes

concert host, moderator Q&A’s for Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir
Flagey, Brussels

Season 2026-2027 (upcoming)

Album release concert ‘The Manual Stop’ at the Contius Organ of St. Michielskerk, Leuven (BE) w/ STUK Leuven and the Contius Foundation

Album release concert ’The Manual Stop’ at Orgelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Album release concert ‘The Manual Stop’ at CONCRETE MUSIC FESTIVAL
brutalist church Heilig Graf Herkenrode w/ cultural centre Hasselt, Belgium.

Album release concert ‘The Manual Stop’ at Daylight Music, London, UK (tbc)

7 May 2026 (upcoming)
REPEATREPEATREPEAT: Sander De Keere / HaConcerts, Ghent, Belgium
double bill w/ pianist Bram De Looze

16 November 2025
Sander De Keere w/ Nina Vanhoenacker (cello), Emmy Wils (piano)
Sint Catharina church, Wondelgem, Belgium

14 September 2025
BETWEEN NOW & NOW (minimalist music program), beguinage church, Ghent, Belgium
Sander De Keere (pump organ), Nina Vanhoenacker (cello)

1 December 2024
First performance Sander De Keere - Concrete Music (for SATB choir)
40th anniversary concert choir ‘De Tweede Adem’ w/ Maarten Van Ingelgem (conductor), Ghent, Belgium

23 November 2024
A MINIMAL TRIP - Flemish Radio Choir w/ Sigvards Klava (conductor)
post-concert by Sander De Keere

21 January 2023
Residency concert Sander De Keere, Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
7-9 June 2022
Sander De Keere + Mari Samuelsen + Casco Phil, CC Hasselt & Leuven, Belgium

Compositions / publications

for a full overview of Sander De Keere’s compositions, please click here

October 2026

release date
to be announced

CONCRETE MUSIC FOR MIXED CHOIR (on a concrete mixer instruction manual)
world premiere by ‘De Tweede Adem’ choir w/ Maarten Van Ingelgem

‘for Ruth Crawford’ (single release) - piano composition honoring the American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger / release on W.E.R.F. records

January 2022

LITTLE CREATURE (single release) - solo piano for Piano Day 2020

2019