Lennert Van Laenen

Lennert Van Laenen, born in 2004, began his musical training in classical percussion and marimba with Walter van de Venne and Chin-Cheng Lin. He soon joined the percussion ensemble in Brussegem and the local band. In 2015, Frans Violet invited him to join Young Brassband Willebroek.

His interest in composition developed during this period, when he wrote his first brass band work, Mitä. In 2022, he began studying classical percussion with Pieter Mellaerts at LUCA School of Arts in Leuven.

His work Sparkle won second prize in the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain’s international composition competition. With Red Planet, he won third prize and the audience award at the European Composers Competition in Palanga.