Jan Huylebroeck
Michael Tildis, alias Jan Huylebroeck, born in Ostend (Belgium) in 1956, pianist, percussionist and timpany-player started his professional career in 1975.He combined a full schedule of stagework with pianoteaching.
As timpanist, he started , after a peiod of 9 years in a regional symphonic orhestra, a free-lance career with various orchestras (La Petite Bande, I Fiamminghi and Anima Aeterna) on historical instruments. With these orchestras he recorded 15 CD’s.
As solo-pianoplyer, he performed several concertos with orchestral accompaniment. He also effected a solid reputation as accompanist for song recitals (2 CD’s) and competitions. After 10 years , Jan Huylebroeck stopped teaching and became pianist-accompanist at the Bruges Music Conservatory.
In the same year he started to explore the possibilities of the synthesizer, founding the concerttrio “CD-LIVE” in 1986, a group specialised in the musical aspect of the synth, not just the technical.
He is a composer-arranger of repute, warmly appreciated for his live-sounding symphonical synthesizer orchestrations, whose work extends to chambermusic, music for solo-instruments, brass band and naturally for electronic instruments. For the “Royal Ballet of Flanders - musical company” he took on the musical direction until 1997. In this period he made all the arrngements and orchestrations of : Jerry’s girl, Broadway Baby, Hollywood by night, Yours Anne, Sound of Music, Chess, Sacco & Vanzetti.
List of works by Jan Huylebroeck (Michael Tildis)
- Concertmars - Three Opposit’ations for Concertband
- Pulsation for Brass Band
- Justice...? Concertpiece for Brass Band
- Fedekamtune for Concertband
- Extemperaneaus - High speed rag for woodwindquintet
- Pieters Klokken - Musical fairy-tale for woodwind and narrator
- Spots for 10 fluteparts, piano and cello
- Heuvellandlied (orchestr.) for mixed voices and symph. orch.
- Before for trumpetquartet
- Fo(u)r Celebrities for trumpetquartet
- Bridge to History for advanced school orchestra
- Ritournel for Orff-group
- Sonidas 1 for french horn, piano and synth - version with symph. orch.
- Moods on 24 for clarinet, trumpet and synthesizer
- Riffs for vibes, percussion and tape
- Amusingness for solo instrument and piano
- O ouro é um metal for flute and tape
- Never try this on your own for digits, bassclarinet, muted trumet and euphonium
- Mannen met baarden for bassclarinet, trumpet and digital keyboards
- Walking for bassclarinet, trumpet and digital keyboards
- Prelude & menuet for alto-sax trio
- Increase of speed for percussiontrio
- Hallo met wie ? for flute
- Mégané for flutequartet (flute, violin, viola and cello)
- Eurocantate for four mixed voices and concertband (Award Bad-Neuheim (D))
- Alle eendjes hebben veertjes for oboe and piano
- Drie liederen op tekst van G. Gezelle (high voice, clarinet and piano)(Award price of the audience, Contest Guido Gezelle, City of Roeselare 1999)
- Ouverture on a Flemish theme
- Till dead
- Dark night
- Tribute to P.
- Sunset never waits
- Water
- El Rio Araguaia
- Ouverture Broadway Baby
- Ouverture Hollywood by night all for synthesizerorchestra
- Upwind-downwind for bells, synthesizers and digidrums
Large number of arrangements