The Four Loves

Stefan Meylaers, Hollywood Nominee & Carnegie Hall Artist.
Graduated with Cum Laude at the Belgian Lemmens Institute as specialist in piano and chamber music. He also followed master classes in Hungary (György Ligeti & Zoltan Kocsis) and Switzerland (Roberto Szidon). Stefan Meylaers, musician in heart and soul, cannot simply be placed under one name...

He is active as a pianist, composer, instructor and producer and is associated with the Stedelijk Muziekconservatorium and High Shool For Music (UCCLL) in Hasselt. He is regularly invited as a guest lecturer and jury member. Various nominations, national and international, such as in Hollywood, New Dehli and Saint-Tropez, are on his name. He recorded several CDs including "Cinematic Dreams" and "Stefan Meylaers, Portrait of a composer 1 & 2". He has written music for important competitions such as the Dexia Classics and has given performances worldwide. He has performed twice as composer and solo pianist in Carnegie Hall (unique in Belgian music history) and in the Concert Hall of the United Nations. In 2016, Stefan Meylaers composed the impressive and acclaimed concert spectacle "The Journey, a story about time" performed by more than 150 musicians. Stefan Meylaers is also a committed artist. Compositions such as "Fukushima", "Haiyan" and "New Orleans" testify to this. Under his wings as producer and composer he created the short films "Oculus" (with Leah Thys and Ivan Pecnik), "Veraf" (with Matteo Simoni and Ella-June Henrard) and the music video "Haiyan". He also wrote the music for the short film "In A Landscape". In 2017, with Carlos & Mirella, one of world’s best tango dancers, he created “Pasión”, an international production about passion. In 2018 he made with one of the most important sculptors of our time, Lorenzo Quinn, the short film "The Four Loves". The music got several nominations and was elected twice as “Best Soundtrack”. In 2020 he wrote the triptych “Music In The Age Of the Great Pandemic”.
In 2021 his composition “Timelapse” for string quartet was selected for “Fingerprints”, a recording project by Sabam, the national TV & radio VRT and Kunstenpunt to promote Flemish music around the globe. In 2022 the show “Musica Magica” will take off along with composer's new, long-awaited piano album “Meander”.