Founder and musical director of the Sturm und Klang ensemble, Thomas Van Haeperen obtained his diploma for the violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He also holds a master's degree in philosophy from UCL University, which leads him to conceive his projects in resonance with everything that unites music, thought, memory and time. A laureate of the Belgian Vocation Foundation, he studied conducting in Leipzig and Mainz during master classes with Sylvain Cambreling, to whom he owes the rigour and sensitivity in the performance of the contemporary repertoire.