After finishing my studies, I wanted to return to my home country to work there, and got a job at Galaxy Studios. I managed to get a place in the program and eventually became one of Germany’s youngest Tonmeisters. It was or a five-year Tonmeister education which didn’t exist in Belgium at that time. A good friend of mine then told me about the Sound Engineering degree in Düsseldorf, Germany. Towards the end of my school career, when I had to decide what to do with my further life, I wanted to continue making music professionally, but not as a musician or teacher (since there weren’t a lot of job opportunities in Belgium at that time). How come you ended up behind the console and what drew you towards engineering/mixing?
Still today I am performing with my own brass quartet, which the four of us founded as students 25 years ago… I also got basic education in playing snare drum and double bass. I studied at the two biggest Academies of Music of Eastern Belgium for about ten years and got diplomas in french horn, solfeggio and chamber music. At the age of nine, I started playing in the local wind band of my village, which was performing on a remarkable level – that way I was “forced” to become a good musician, too, being their principal horn player. I am a classically trained french horn player. Tell us a little about your background and how your interest in music began.
