Ingrid Drese first studied piano, chamber music, music history, and music analysis, before signing up for the electroacoustic composition program at the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Brussels, then for the same program at the RCM in Mons, in Annette Vande Gorne’s classroom, where she finished with a High degree diploma in 1998. 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. Several major institutions have commissioned works from her, including Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium). Her works have been programmed in Belgian and foreign festivals, and have won several competitions: Electroacoustic Composition Award, Royal Academy of Belgium (1997); Noroit-Léonce Petitot International Award (Arras, France, 1998); Métamorphoses Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition (Brussels, Belgium, 2000). Since 2011 she is professor of acousmatic composition at the Royal conservatory of Mons/Arts2.