While studying piano and composition at the conservatories of Brussels and Antwerp, Maarten Van Ingelgem caught the choir bug. In 2001, he started conducting the Ghent-based chamber choir for contemporary music De 2de Adem (The Second Breath). So far, he has performed almost 50 premieres with them. Furthermore, he was one of the bass singers in Aquarius and was regularly invited to conduct or reinforce the bass section of ensembles such as the Brussels Chamber Choir and the Flemish Radio Choir. Maarten van Ingelgem invited Brussels-based poet Els Moors to write the lyrics for his composition. Els Moors was Belgium's poet laureate between 2018 and 2020.
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