Wilfried Westerlinck

Wilfried Westerlinck is a Belgian composer, conductor and music producer. He studied at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and Antwerp and furthered his studies in orchestral conducting in Monte Carlo. From 1971 to 1983, he taught music analysis at the Antwerp Conservatory, while from 1968 to 2001 he worked as a music producer for the cultural channel of Belgian public broadcaster VRT, specialising in chamber and symphonic music. His compositions have received several awards, including the Tenuto Prize in 1972 for Metamorfose for large orchestra, and the Eugène Baie Prize in 1985 for the artistic quality of his oeuvre. His works have been performed by leading Belgian orchestras and ensembles. From 2012 to 2022, he presented the weekly Middagconcert in Antwerp, and subsequently founded the Klankdomein Festival, dedicated to Flemish composers from 1830 to the present. His catalogue comprises around one hundred compositions.