Timo Tembuyser

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

He combines his backgrounds in architecture, theatre and music, creating work with ensembles that aim to open space for sincere listening. His compositions are polyphonic scores in which multiple voices are woven together as equals — moving in and out of harmony, cacophony and silence. His most recent work, Missa Mama Nova (2024), is a danced choral ritual exploring the archetype of the mother, performed by an ensemble of eight performers.

The longing for unity lies at the heart of Timo’s artistic practice. As a child of divorced parents living in completely separate worlds, and as a queer student in a Catholic school, he grew up searching for truth and connection. Like a lifelong nomad, he moved from place to place, from project to project, from school to school. After completing a Bachelor and Master in Architecture and Urban Design at Ghent University (2014), Timo trained as a multidisciplinary performer at the Toneelacademie in Maastricht (2019).

Beyond his formal education, Timo found some of the most essential keys to his practice while living in intentional communities in Greece and Portugal, and through his initiation into shamanic and plant-based medicine with the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. Following many co-creations and ensemble-based projects, he deepened his path as a singer through the Master in Music Theatre at Fontys in Tilburg (2024), where he researched the solo voice and the soloist emerging from the collective.

For B-Classic, he created the performance FOLD ME / BARE for Kunstennacht Hasselt, took part in Eat Me, performed as a soloist in Elfurenmis, and appeared with Passages at The Sound of C in Genk.