The Young composers’ project has been launched in 2010 in partnership with the Belgian Music Analysts Association (SBAM) and Ensemble Sturm und Klang, (wind quintet, string quintet, and percussion) at the initiative of its artistic director, Thomas Van Haeperen. For each session, 4 to 5 composers are selected to spend a weekend working with the musicians and under the guidance of one of Forum des compositeurs' member on a 10-minutes piece written for the occasion and which will be performed in concert at the end of this short residency. This project is generously supported by the French Community Wallonie/Brussels.
The first workshop took place on 12 and 13 February 2011 at Museum La Fonderie under the guidance of Victor Kissine and with following participants :
- Grégory D'Hoop : [Opus super missa]
- Gilles Doneux : [Mixtum I]
- Geoffrey François : [Vagues esquisses]
- Stéphane Orlando : [Homo Erectus]
The second workshop took place on 8 and 9 September 2012 at Museum La Fonderie under the guidance of Claude Ledoux with the following participants :
- Christophe Guiraud : [Abel]
- Alithea Ripoll : [Sprech (en) toujours et cause gesang]
- Adrien Tsilogiannis : [Filante et attirante…de l’inaccompli]
- Sarah Wéry : [A furious mouth dances]
The third workshop took place on June 21-22, 2014 at Chapelle du Linthout (Brussels) under the guidance of Jean-Luc Fafchamps with the following participants :
- Éric Bettens : [Liquid State]
- Gwenaël Grisi : [Unchained Roots]
- Pierre Slinckx : [Mariale]
- Denis Ivanidze : [Tilde]