Johan Hoogewijs (born 22 December 1957, Belgium) is a Flemish Belgian composer and sound designer, best known for his music to Flemish and Dutch Tv-series such as Heterdaad, Russen and Witse. Hoogewijs composed also the scores for the Dutch movies Zinloos (2004) and Winky’s Horse with Jan Decleir (2005).

Johan Hoogewijs has studied at the R.I.T.S, a film school in Brussels and started his musical career at the the Conservatory of Leuven. Later, he also took part at a number of jazz workshops at the Conservatory of Luik.

As a componist, he is autodidact. It started with a school band when he was 15 years old. He performed for the first time at the theatre in Brussels. Some other bands followed, many in the jazz idiom, others with a rather pop repertory.

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