Jan Van der Roost

Jan van der Roost was born in Duffel, Belgium, in 1956. He studied trombone, history of music and musical education at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Louvain) and continued his studies at the Royal Conservatoires of Ghent and Antwerp, where he qualified as a conductor and a composer. At present, he teaches at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Belgium) and is guest professor at the "Shobi Institute of Music" in Tokyo and at the "Nagoya University of Art" (Japan).