Music Theatre Transparant - Artists

Timo Tembuyser ( °1991, Aalst (BE)) is a singer, performer, composer and theatre maker who works in Belgium and the Netherlands.

He combines his backgrounds in architecture, theatre and music; and works with ensembles with which he aims to make room for sincere listening. He composes polyphonous scores that interweave different voices in an equitable way - moving into and out of harmony, cacophony and silence. His final work Missa Mama Nova (2024) is a danced choral ritual about the mother archetype with an ensemble of eight performers.

The longing for unity is deeply rooted in Timo’s practice. As a child of divorced parents who lived in totally separate worlds, and as a queer child at a Catholic school, he always sought out truth and connection. As an eternal nomad, he hopped from place to place, from project to project, from school to school. After completing a Bachelor & Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design at Ghent University (2014), Timo trained as a versatile Performer at the Toneelacademie in Maastricht (2019).

Alongside these studies, Timo found the most important keys to his practice whilst living in communities in Greece and Portugal, and during his initiation into shamanism and plant-based medicine with the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. After numerous co-creations and working in/with ensembles, Timo continued his studies as a Vocalist as part of the Master’s in Musical Theatre at Fontys in Tilburg (2024). Here he conducted research into the solo voice and the soloist emerging from the choir.

For these seasons, Timo has been collaborating with directors including Aïda Gabriëls and Nicole Beutler. Together with Hélène Vrijdag, Timo is half of the maker duo Studio SIBLING. Based on a shared fascination for voice and shared values around care, pleasure activism and gender-queerness, they build on a method and repertoire that they share with one another and others.

Contacts:

+31 (0) 657 738 579 - timo.tembuyser@hotmail.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/timo_tembuyser

linked-in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timo-tembuyser-b638b182/

Photo: Gerty Van de Perre