Pieter Schuermans

Pieter Schuermans is a versatile composer and musician.


Pieter Schuermans founded eaRis company, a company dedicated to interdisciplinarity. He composed and directed the performance Looking Through Eardrums, with dance, juggling and music, and led eaRis company throughout Europe with performances in Paris, Vienna, Brescia, Leipzig, Stockholm, etc., up to the far north in Sweden.


His career as a conductor took him to China, where he conducted several concerts in the renowned Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai. He made a name for himself with performances of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. He is a popular guest conductor and regularly works with the Ataneres Ensemble, with whom he has also made several recordings, often of his own work.


Pieter Schuermans is chairman of the Composers Archipelago Flanders (ComAV) and is committed to promoting and supporting Flemish composers at home and abroad. The Belgian Music Days and the CD series Fingerprints are just a few of the projects he and ComAV are involved in.


As a teacher and coordinator of composition he is associated with LUCA School of Arts campus Lemmens. His artistic focus and research is currently on composition and conducting. As a composer, he has won several awards and recognitions. He has collaborated with, among others, Quatuor Danel, Brussels Philharmonic, Kugoni Trio, Ataneres Ensemble, Goeyvaerts String Trio, De la Haye Ensemble, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Transit Festival and Radio Klara.