Kent Moussault

29, Netherlands

Dutch-Japanese Conductor Kent Moussault (born 1993) studied conducting and composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Kent won first prize at the Young Conductors Award 2016 in Hilversum.

He conducted several professional orchestras including The Hamburger Symphoniker (Germany) the PHION-orchestra (Netherlands), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (UK) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (UK) and the Noord Nederlands Orkest (Netherlands), and has been assistant to conductors such as Otto Tausk, Jac van Steen and Martyn Brabbins.

Kent regularly works with contemporary composers and has conducted several world premieres. In 2022 he founded MoussaultArts for his work as a media composer.

In 2016 he received the Wagner-scholarship provided by the Richard Wagner-Verband to visit the Bayreuther Festspiele. He is the recent First Prize winner of the 2023 Call for Conductors Budapest.

Kent received financial support from the Kersjesfonds and RCS Scholarship Fund for his studies.

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