Kristin Van den Buys

Music History

Professor

kristin.van.den.buys@vub.be

Biography

Kristin Van den Buys studied musicology at Ghent University (1984) and obtained degrees in music theory, music analysis and Early Music at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and KU Leuven (1987–91). Between 1990 and 2000, she worked at Radio 3, formerly the classical music channel of VRT, the national Flemish broadcasting institute. Her Ph.D. (KU Leuven, 2004) focused on musical modernism in Brussels and Antwerp during the interwar period.

From 2006 to 2020 she was head of Research at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, a function she took on again since 2022. Since 2014, she is also Professor at the VUB and from 2017 on she teaches Campus Opera at the VUB.

Van den Buys has published widely on a variety of topics relating to music life in Brussels and Belgium, more specifically on the history of the Belgian radio and its orchestras. She is editor of the volume Het Orkest. Van Radio-orkest tot Brussels Philharmonic in Flagey (Lannoo Campus, 2013) (The Orchestra. From the Radio Orchestra to Brussels Philharmonic in Flagey).

Main publications:

Financing Modernist Music: The Rise, Climax and Decline (1919-1936) of Modernist Music in Commercial Concert Societies in Brussels and Its Revival (1936-1940) at the Fully Subsidized National Radio Belgian Broadcasting InstituteVan Den Buys, C., Dec 2022, Financing Music in Europe. Jardin, E. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Vol. 47. p. 343-362 20 p. (Speculum Musicae (SMUS) 47; no. 47).

Paul Gilson en de Russen

Van Den Buys, C. & Van Holen, J., 2022, Paul Gilson (1865-1942). Een Brusselse componist van de wereld. Bertels, K. (ed.). ASP, p. 77-149 72 p.

The Rise, Climax and Decline (1920-1936) of Modernist Music in Concert Organisations in Brussels and Its Revival (1936-1940) at the National Radio Belgian Broadcasting Institute,

Van Den Buys, C., 2022, Institutionalization in Music History. Scott, D., Heikkinen, O. & Rantanen, S. (eds.). 2022-2023 ed. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, Vol. 19. p. 53-73 20 p. (DocMus Research Publication Series).

Rimsky-Korsakov Opera’s and Ballets in the Interwar Period in Brussels (1919-1938)

Van Den Buys, C., 21 Mar 2019, Rimsky-Korsakov at 175 A Survey of his Legacy Year on Year. Ader, L. (ed.). State St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music, p. 19.

ОПЕРЫ РИМСКОГО-КОРСАКОВА И БАЛЕТЫ НА ЕГО МУЗЫКУ В БРЮССЕЛЕ В МЕЖВОЕННЫЙ ПЕРИОД (1919–1938)

Van Den Buys, C., 1 Dec 2019, РИМСКИЙ-КОРСАКОВ — 175. Ader, L. (ed.). Sint-Petersburg: State St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music, p. 275-285 11 p. 24

Brussels, Crossroads of French, Germanic and Russian Musical Modernism in the Interwar Period (1919-1940)

Van Den Buys, C., 1 Dec 2018, Music Criticism 1900-1950.

Ballester, J. & Gan Quesada, G. (eds.). Music, Criticism & Politics ed. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Vol. volume 7. p. 23-40 18 p. two. (Music, Criticism, & Politics).

Het Orkest. Van Radio Orkest tot Brussels Philharmonic in Flagey

Van Den Buys, C. (ed.) & Segers, K. (ed.), 15 Mar 2013, Leuven: LannooCampus. 275 p.

Location

Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium