Chris Dubois

Chris Dubois was born in Oudenaarde and has studied at the Royal Flemish Music Academy of Antwerp. He has obtained numerous first prizes. Baron Flor Peeters was his main teacher. He is a laureate of many composition competitions for carillon and choir and obtained in 1981 the 'Price of the Province of West-Flanders' for his 'Ode to Marnix Gijsen', a choir-composition for four voices 'a-capella'. So far he is the only Belgian laureate of the international competition for organ in Bruges. Chris Dubois is Honorary Professor for organ at the ‘Lemmensinstituut’ in Louvain and at the Music Conservatory of Bruges. He has given quite a lot of performances not only in Belgium but also abroad, mainly in the U.S., Canada, Italy and Germany. 

Chris Dubois has made compositions for the organ, piano, cello, carillon and choir. He has always fought for the recognition and dissemination of the Flemish organ music. As regular employee of radio broadcasting Klara he often has made up some anthologies from the works of Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Edgar Tinel, Flor Peeters, Raimond Schroyens, Paul De Malingreau, Piet Swerts, Herman Roelstraete, Vic Legley and from his own compositions.

Nowadays he is affiliated as organist to the church of the fathers Carmelites in Bruges, where he contributes to the weekly high mass in collaboration with the Scola Gregoriana Brugensis.