Biography
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Born
1980 (age 44)
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Born In
Antwerp, Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Bert Dockx ( Antwerp , 1980 ) is a Belgian composer, singer and jazz guitarist who trained at the Jazz Studio and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels .
In 2008 he founded Flying Horseman , a band that originally started as a solo project. Flying Horseman was nominated for two Music Industry Awards in 2013 ('album of the year' and 'alternative'). Dockx himself was nominated in the 'best musician' category in 2013 and 2014 . He also won the biennial KU Leuven Culture Prize 2015-2016.
Dockx is also a guitarist with the instrumental bands Dans Dans , Briqueville , Ottla and Sweet Defeat . In the theater he made music for various companies, including HETPALEIS , Het Toneelhuis , De Tijd and Theater Zuidpool . For the performance Empedocles by Theater Zuidpool he composed and played a soundtrack with elements from rock, classical, jazz, ambient and abstract improvisation.
In 2013 he curated the first volume of A Track at the Concertgebouw in Bruges , where he discussed his musical influences.
At the end of 2014, Bert Dockx ventured to create an intimate, solo album full of poetic, impressionistic music under the name Strand in Dutch. In the spring of 2015, Bert was the musical guest on the tour of “Saint Amour” and in May of the same year he received the prestigious, biennial culture prize from KU Leuven. Later that year he was the support act for Balthazar in Vorst Nationaal with Flying Horseman on the occasion of their 5th album 'Night is Long' . In 2016, an extensive tour with Flying Horseman followed and a new album with Dans Dans, which gradually gained a foothold abroad. Bert also wrote and performed music for the dance performance 'The Jungle is our House' by the Dutch Club Guy & Roni and composed the music for Peter Monsaert 's feature film 'Le Ciel Flamand' .
At the beginning of 2017, Bert was artist in residence at deSingel in Antwerp with Flying Horseman for 7 weeks . The residency resulted in the performance 'Rooms / Ruins', which, in addition to a premiere in deSingel, was performed 7 more times in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the summer of that year, the music was also included in what was to become the band's new album. At the end of 2017, Bert also composed the music for 'One Million and Me', the new performance by Veerle van Overloop, and created the soundtrack for 'Ahmed', a short film by Leander Coorevits.
In the autumn of 2018, Bert Dockx released 'Transit'. A completely live recorded solo album that consists solely of adventurous interpretations of some iconic songs by Bruce Springsteen , Joy Division , Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan , among others . In 2019 , the first album of his jazz ensemble Ottla was released.
In 2022, Dockx released two new albums, one with Dans Dans and one as a solo artist, and he also wrote the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed film A Parked Life by Peter Triest. De Morgen called "the nuanced soundtrack by maestro Bert Dockx (Flying Horseman) as telling as ten commentary voices together".
His most recent solo album, Ghosts, was released in October, 2023.
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