Trained as a pianist (Institut royal supérieur de musique et de pédagogie, Namur, Belgium), Ingrid Drese enrolled in the electroacoustic composition course at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (Belgium), then at the Conservatoire royal de Mons (Belgium), in the class of Annette Vande Gorne, and was awarded the Prix supérieur in 1998.

During her studies she benefited from seminars, lectures and master classes given by world-class composers, among others: François Bayle, Francis Dhomont, Leo Kupper, Jean-Claude Risset, Bernard Parmegiani, Michel Chion, and Robert Normandeau.

She participated in the development and creation of an acousmatic composition curriculum (1996) at the Académie de musique de Soignies (Belgium), where she subsequently taught. In 2004, she accepted a position as assistant at the Conservatoire royal de Mons / Arts² — École supérieure des arts (Mons, Belgium).

Alongside her activities as a composer and teacher of acousmatic composition, she also teaches piano.

Although she focuses her composition work on concert music, she also likes to collaborate on stage projects, films, and music videos. She has also composed in collaboration with poets, writers, pianists, and astrophysicists.

She receives commissions from such renowned institutions as Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium).

Awarded in several competitions — Royal Academy of Belgium Electroacoustic Composition Award (1997); Noroit-Léonce Petitot International Award (Arras, France, 1998); Métamorphoses Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition (Belgium, 2000, ’22) — her music has been widely performed around the world and on the radio.

She has been invented in the studios of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM, France) and of the GMEB in Bourges (France).

She has also taken part in several festivals such as Musiques-échange Québec-Belgique (Montréal, Québec, 1996), Futura (Crest, France, 2001, 23), Rien à voir (11) (Montréal, Québec, 2002), Ars Musica (Brussels, Belgium, 2008), Carving the Sound Space (Vienna, Austria, 2015), and more recently, Belgian Music Days (Eupen, Belgium, 2022), Sonic Matter (Zürich, Switzerland, 2023), among others.

From 2011 to ’19, Ingrid Drese taught acousmatic composition at the Conservatoire royal de Mons / Arts² (Royal Conservatory of Mons / Arts²). Since 2020, she has been working as an independent composer.

In 2021 Marc Moniez, astrophysicist, and Ingrid Drese were invited to present Treize virgule huit (2018-19) at the IN2P3 and INSH 50-Year Festivities organized at the Musée Curie in Paris (France).

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