Ine Vanoeveren

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About Ine Vanoeveren

Belgian flutist and Doctor of Musical Arts, Ine Vanoeveren, is specialized in contemporary music performance. She obtained her Master’s degree at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège (BE), a MAS in Contemporary Music Performance and Interpretation in the class of Mario Caroli, at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (CH) and a DMA in Contemporary Music Performance in the class of Prof. John Fonville, at the University of California, San Diego (USA). She performed at several contemporary music festivals and concert series, such as Lanterna Rossa in Lugano, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Wednesdays @7 in San Diego, Festival Musica Sacra Maastricht, Images Sonores in Liège, Complicated Europeans Festival in New York, FIME in São Paulo and Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles. She is a welcome guest speaker at international universities and music departments. Ine won awards at the Action Classics Competition, Benelux Fluitconcours and was rewarded with a Belgian American Educational Foundation grant in 2013, to continue her research in contemporary music performance in the US. In 2016 she was awarded with the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreise for Interpretation by the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. During her doctoral research, Ine focused on the music for flute solo by Brian Ferneyhough. Her doctoral project, ‘confined walls of unity’, is a series of lectures, papers and a solo recital, consisting of his integral oeuvre for flute solo. Her analysis and research about ‘Cassandra’s Dream Song’ has been published in several journals for artistic research. Ine is currently active in the field of art and technology as part of the Flemish digital art collective Studio POC. Within her artistic research, she focuses on hybrid digital performances in virtual surroundings in co-creation with digital artists. In 2018, she published her book ‘Tomorrow’s Music in Practice Today: a practical guide towards deciphering contemporary music’ – a handbook for students to decipher, practice and perform contemporary music. In addition to performing, Ine is an assistant professor in contemporary music performance at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and a researcher in XR-performance and metaverse applications at Hogeschool PXL, Hasselt, Belgium. She is also the coordinator of the postgraduate eArts at PXL-MAD and of the brand new Virtual Art & Entertainment Lab of Hogeschool PXL.