Jef Callebaut

Jeff Callebaut is a percussionist, a composer, a performer and a music educator. He studied classical percussion with Koen Wilmaers and Carlo Willems at the conservatory in Antwerp where he earned his master degree in 2018. Between 2013 and 2016, he took composition courses with Wim Henderickx. As a composer and artist, he is always searching for ways to express his observations of the world around him. In may 2015, people could hear his first composition Quals for saxophone trio, cello and drumset. He wrote the music for theatre play Streep in September 2015, for clarinet alto and tenor saxophone, drumset and vibraphone. Jeff also wrote music for dance, film, chamber music setting and wrote three pieces for his own graduating exam in 2018, Children's Play for two percussionists, In time for drumset and piano accompaniment and Pyrhula for vibraphone, viola and piano. 

In 2018 Jeff got interested in choir and he wrote De Bijen to a text of Rudolf Steiner, for choir, electric bass and percussion. In 2018, he made a version of the piece for choir only, De Bijen II. In 2019 his composition for choir, 'Een modern ridderverhaal' was premiered at Lunalia Festival in Mechelen.