Stefan Hejdrowski is a Belgian composer born in 1993. Trained at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, he studied composition with Michel Fourgon and mixed composition with Gilles Gobert, before completing his education with studies in art history at the University of Liège. He then refined his writing at the international Synthetis course in Poland, working with composers such as Mauricio Sotelo, Marta Ptaszynska, Johannes Kreidler, and Ondrej Adámek. In 2016, he was awarded the “Ça Balance Classique” prize (now Sp(h)ères Sonores). His works have been interpreted by ensembles such as Musiques Nouvelles, Ensemble Hopper, Ensemble Sturm und Klang, Ensemble 21, LAPS Ensemble, E-MEX Ensemble (Germany), Quarto Ensamble (Chile), Sepia Ensemble (Poland), and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. He is currently an assistant in the composition class at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.
His music is deeply influenced by literature — Henri Michaux, François Jacqmin, Robert Desnos, Ghérasim Luca, Fernando Pessoa, Emily Dickinson — as well as by constant references to music history, where fragments, quotations, and reminiscences emerge like transformed reflections or echoes. In Allongée sur le vide (Polaroïd Album of Ensemble Hopper), he set to music letters by George Sand, interpreted by Donatienne Michel-Dansac, interwoven with quotations from Chopin.
His guitar pieces, composed for François Couvreur and brought together in the album New Sounds of Guitar(s), reflect his exploration of instrumental gesture, a central element of his sonic universe. Breath, subtle textures, and imperceptible nuances nourish a language that combines intensity and delicacy, driven by a passion for refined timbres and the extreme dynamics of pianissimo. His approach to form, in turn, is profoundly inspired by the visual arts, particularly modern and contemporary art, from which he transposes certain compositional strategies into musical writing.