Barthold Kuijken

Barthold Kuijken (born 9 March 1949 in Dilbeek ) is a Belgian ( Travers ) flutist and conductor, specializing in the interpretation of early music on period instruments.

Life

Barthold Kuijken grew up in a musical environment to where his two brothers, Wieland Kuijken and Sigiswald Kuijken already made ​​music intensive and historical performance practice was an integral part of making music early. He began his studies at the Conservatory of Bruges and continued them in Brussels and The Hague. Already in The Hague, he became deeply with the " early music " apart and learned to play the recorder. By happy coincidence, he found a preserved in its original state flute from the early 18th century. Thanks to this discovery and by the help of many other contemporary instruments from museums and private collectors, as well as through the study of written sources from the 17th and 18th centuries, he has made in the self-study to a specialist for interpretation on original instruments.

The open modern music, he was like his two brothers in Brussels Ensemble Member " Musiques Nouvelles " by Pierre Bartholomée.

From the 1970s he played increasingly works of the baroque era, with his brothers Wieland Kuijken ( viola da gamba ) and Sigiswald Kuijken (violin ) and Paul Dombrecht ( baroque oboe ), René Jacobs ( countertenor ), the harpsichordist Robert Kohnen, Gustav Leonhardt, Bob van Asperen and Ewald Demeyere and the Forte pianist Luc Devos and Piet Kuijken. In addition to his participation as a flutist in the Baroque orchestra La Petite Bande he gives many chamber music concerts and master classes in all parts of the world.

Since 1986, Barthold Kuijken devoted increasingly to conducting, of which the recordings of works by Mozart, Bach, Handel and Telemann testify.

Barthold Kuijken is professor of historical baroque flute at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.

In 2007, he earned his first Doctor of Music in Belgium, at the Free University of Brussels (VUB ). The title of his dissertation is: The notation is not the Music - Reflections on more than 40 years' intensive practice of Early Music. The portfolio consisted of all his recordings and publications.