Godfried-Willem Raes

Godfried-Willem Raes, born in Gent (Europe) in 1952, is known worldwide as a 'musicmaker' in the largest sense of the word: as a concert-organizer he's been responsible from 1973 until 1988 for the new-music concert programming of the Philharmonic Society at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, in addition to which he also organized and still organizes all the concerts which take place at the Logos Foundation in Gent, in total about 150 international new music concerts a year. Over a timespan of almost 45 years he turned the Logos Foundation into the most active new music organization in Belgium. As a composer/performer and instrumentmaker he is the founder of the Logos- Group (1968), out of which grew the Logos Duo, with Moniek Darge as well as the well known experimental (Man and Machine) orchestra, operating with his spectacular musical robots.

Godfried-Willem Raes studied musicology and philosophy at the Ghent State University as well as piano, clarinet, percussion and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Gent.