Frederik Neyrinck

Composer Frederik Neyrinck (born 1985) studied in Brussels, Stuttgart and Graz with Piet Kuijken (piano), Jan Van Landeghem, Marco Stroppa and Clemens Gadenstätter (composition).

FREDERIK NEYRINCK © Koen Broos

As a composer, he has collaborated with ensembles and orchestras in Belgium and abroad. He also frequently arranges and transcribes existing repertoire. His works have been recorded by I SOLISTI, Revue Blanche and SPECTRA, among others.

He has received awards such as the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition (2018) and the Förderpreis der Stadt Wien (2020).

During the 2017-2018 season, he was composer in residence at Concertgebouw Brugge.

From 2020 to 2028, he is Artist in Residence at I SOLISTI, which has resulted in Landru (music theatre, 2020), Wild (music theatre, 2021), De oude woorden van een tijd die komen gaat (2021), PINOKKIO (children’s music theatre, 2023) and In What We Trust (concert in dialogue with Bruckner, 2024).

Frederik is also active in the world of (children’s) musical theatre and opera. He is in residence at LOD musical theatre and wrote i c o n (chamber opera, 2018), Zolang hij niet zichzelve kent (musical theatre, 2018) and Rhapsody (musical theatre, 2022) for them.

Other projects in this context include Der Bär der nicht da war (Oldenburg State Theatre, children’s musical theatre, 2017), Homo Deus Frankenstein (Kopergietery, makemake produktionen, I SOLISTI, children’s musical theatre, 2019) and Nenia (Revue Blanche, LOD, Katharina Smets, 2025).

In April 2023, Kruistocht (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Kopergietery) premiered, a family opera with some 50 children on stage, a symphony orchestra and the collaboration of Jaouad Alloul, Marjan De Schutter and the Compact Disk Dummies, among others.