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BIOGRAPHY

Alain Van Zeveren is a Belgian music composer/arranger/producer/musician with more than thirty five years of experience, playing, producing, arranging and composing for theater, motion picture and television - The projects he composed for gained him a strong reputation as a  music composer in Belgium and the Netherlands. Born in 1963, after 6 years of private lessons (starting the age of 6) given by Rene Van Roye, he studied music at the Royal Music Academy and Music Conservatory in Gent. After finishing his studies, he concentrates mainly on jazz music, and plays with some legendary jazz muscicians such as Dave Pike and Toots Thielemans. After touring the world twice on the Russian cruiseship "Alexander Pushkin" for twelve months as a pianoplayer, he gets into "pop" and session work as a keyboardplayer. Later he joins the  pop-rock band The Radios ('90 - '96). They receive four golden and three platinum records for the sale of their four full CD's. After the Radios he focusses mainly on composing, arranging and producing of music for TV, film & theater. His first theater compositions are "Vermist" and "De getuige", both authored by Knarf Van Pellecom. Between '95 and '96 he writes the orchestral soundtrack for the 26-episode TV series "Ons geluk", a scenario of Paul Koeck based on the works of Gerard Walschap. In 1996 he receives a Zamu-award for best filmmusic. In '99 he writes the soundtrack for the motion picture "Missing link", (Ger Poppelaars). The picture was shown in Cannes on the " Palme d'Or  Festival", and was nominated in Germany for the "Berliner Filmfestival award". Music for other TV-series; "Wies Anderson Show"(x13), "Vlaanderen boven"(x13), "Dames-Heren" (x13), "Deman" (x13). He writes the score for several documentaries and publicity-clips. 2001; Theatershow "Lustobject" with Els de Schepper.  In 2002 he composes "Alladin the musical". "Alladin" turns out succesfull, and tours in the Netherlands ((+/-) 100 shows). Late 2002 Alain arranges for "De Kleine Prins", directed by  Franz Marijnen. Eversince he composed for other "Marijnen-directions" such as; 2003-04 -"Cyrano de Bergerac "(Edmond Rostand), 2005 - " De meiden" (Jean Jenet), 2006 - "Triptiek" (Nelly Arcan - Georges Bataille), 2007: 2007 - "Heksenjacht" (Arthur Miller), 2008: "Red Rubber Balls" (Peter Verhelst) , 2008 - "Medea" (Euripides) (directed by J. Doesburg), 2008 - "Thérèse Raquin (Emile Zola), "Nocturne" (Eric Schneider), 2008-09 - "Glenn Gould", 2010 - "Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP) " , "Winter"(2012 ), " kamer 411" (2013) , "Scarlatti" (2014). He also wrote and produced jingles for several commercials, music for documentaries, and produced CD's for several Flemish artists - Live- and/or studioperformances (over 100 albums) with :  Soulsister, Marjory Barnes, Rocco Granata, Toots Thielemans, Zjef Vanuytsel, Toon Hermans, Hans De Booy, Raf Van Brussel, Niels Williams, Jo Lemaire, Stef Bos, Grand Jojo, Helmut Lotti, Kristoff,  Bart Kaël, Liliane St Pierre, Sergio, Raymond, Jo Vally, Garry Hagger, Mieke, Sarah Bettens,  Margriet Hermans, BJ Scott, Petra, Yasmine, The Dinky Toys, Coco jr, Geena Lisa, Pop in Wonderland, The Radios, Clouseau, Wigbert, Hooverphonic, Koen Krucke, Pierre Rapsat, Bart Van den Bossche, Voice Male, Eric & Sanne, Will Tura, Jef Bodart, Tony Esposito, Christian Delagrange, Toast, Gunther Neefs, Mieke, Mama's Jasje, Matt Luna, Biezebaaze, De Grungblavers, Els De Schepper, Volumnia, Xander de Buisonjé, Wim Soutaer, Ingeborg, Willy Sommers, Lee Towers, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Eddy Wally, Anita Meyer, Pierre Kartner, Bonnie St. Clair, Liliane St.Pierre, Samantha Jones, Dennie Christian, Mieke, Bob Benny, Middle of the Road, Dana Winner, Johan Verminnen, Eric Goossens,T. Turner, Khadja Nin, Tony Hadley (Spandau - Ballet ),Youssou N'Dour, Sofie, K's Choice, Axelle Red, Colin Blunstone a.o.... In 2011 Alain decided to start with a collective rightsfree alternative for professional music users (restaurants, hotels, shopping malls etc.), writes 1000 songs in 16 different genres and devellops an easy -to-use music player. "LYZA MUSIC" hits the market in 2012 - In 2015 he starts a hammond jazz trio with Dirk Van der Linden and Laurent Mercier, named LAURENS'B (after Laurens Hammond and the famous B3). They record "Loulou", their first album to be released in september 2015 ... In december 2017 Alain single handedly start to transform the old concrete centre in Turnhout into a small concert-theatre hall (65 seats only), end of may 2019 "Headroom" opens officialy. (more info : www.headroom.vlaanderen).

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