Paul Leenhouts is a Dutch recorder player, composer and conductor.
Leenhouts studied music at the
Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Together with
Daniël Brüggen
Daniël Brüggen (born 1958) is a Dutch recorder player.
He is the nephew of Frans Brüggen and studied with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In 1978 he founded, together with Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts, and Karel va ...
,
Bertho Driever, and
Karel van Steenhoven
Karel van Steenhoven (born November 1958 in Voorburg) is a Dutch recorder player and composer.
Biography
Starting with a green plastic instrument when he was four years old, Steenhoven began to study recorder with a guitar and mandolin teacher ...
, he founded the
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet in 1978. He is a composer and arranger of several works for recorder. In 1986 he started the
Holland Open Recorder Festival in Utrecht, and has been director of the
International Baroque Institute in Boston. He has taught recorder at the
Sweelinck Conservatory, is the Director of Early Music Studies at the
University of North Texas, and holds master classes in different countries. His interest in music of the Renaissance led him to collaborate with different ensembles recorders, including being the founder and artistic director of
The Royal Wind Music
The Royal Wind Music is a Dutch recorder consort.
Founded by Paul Leenhouts in 1997, The Royal Wind Music is a consort of thirteen former students of the Amsterdam Conservatoire. They use a large range of Renaissance recorders by Adriana Breuki ...
from 1997 to 2010.
Working with
Walter van Hauwe
Walter van Hauwe (born 16 November 1948) is a Dutch recorder player.
Biography and career
After lessons at the music school of Delft, where his father was director Pierre van Hauwe, Hauwe studied recorder with Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conser ...
, he developed the "Catalogue for Contemporary blockflute Music".
References
External links
Faculty page at University of North Texas
1957 births
Living people
Dutch recorder players
Dutch performers of early music
Academic staff of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni
University of North Texas faculty
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