Steven Prengels is a Belgian composer and artist. He studied at the Lemmens Institute, the University of Leuven, the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and the Conservatory of Amsterdam. At the latter two he studied composition with Wim Henderickx.
He works mostly for theatre, dance and opera. In recent years he collaborated with national and international artists as Alain Platel, Frank Van Laecke, Johan Simons and Arno Synaeve; and companies as les ballets C de la B, NTGent, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Ruhr Triennale, Teatro Real Madrid, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Leipzig Schauspielhaus, Bochum Schauspielhaus, Münchner Kammerspiele and laGeste.
For coming years, collaborations are planned with Alain Platel, Frank Van Laecke, Johan Simons, Tom Lanoye, Peter Van den Begin, laGeste, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Bochum Schauspielhaus.
He received several awards and nominations both as an individual artist and as a collaborator on music theatre productions, amongst which: The Herald Angel Award (for En Avant, Marche!, Edinburgh International Theater Festival), Dora Mavor Moore Award (for En Avant, Marche!, Toronto Festival), Laurence Olivier Award nomination (for Gardenia), Zagreb Music Biennale (for La dramaturgie d'une passion), Award for the Most Original Composition by a Young Belgian Composer (for Le Reveil Tam-Tam, Ghent International Film Festival).
He divides his time between composing and working as a visual artist.
Steven Prengels is professor of Composition, Orchestration and Analysis at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.