Barthold Kuijken

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Barthold Kuijken (born March 8, 1949 in Dilbeek ) is a Belgian (traversing) flutist and conductor, specializing in the interpretation of early music on historical instruments.

Life

Barthold Kuijken grew up in a musical environment in which his two brothers Wieland Kuijken and Sigiswald Kuijken were already playing intensively and historical performance practice was an integral part of making music from an early age. He began his education at the Bruges Conservatory and continued it in Brussels and The Hague . Already in The Hague he dealt intensively with “ early music ” and learned to play the recorder . By a happy coincidence, through a friend, he found a transverse flute made by GA Rottenburgh (approx. 1760) in its original condition . Thanks to this find and with the help of many other contemporary instruments from museums and private collections, as well as through the study of written sources from the 17th and 18th centuries, he then developed autodidactically into a specialist in the interpretation of original instruments.

Open to modern music, he was, like his two brothers, a member of the Brussels ensemble “ Musiques Nouvelles ” by Pierre Bartholomée .

From the 1970s onwards he played more and more works from the Baroque period with his brothers Wieland Kuijken (viol) and Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), as well as Paul Dombrecht (baroque oboe), René Jacobs (countertenor), harpsichordists Robert Kohnen , Gustav Leonhardt , Bob van Asperen and Ewald Demeyere and the fortepianists Luc Devos and Piet Kuijken. In addition to his involvement as a flautist in the La Petite Bande baroque orchestra , he gives many chamber music concerts and master classes all over the world.

Since 1986, Barthold Kuijken has devoted himself increasingly to conducting, as evidenced by the recordings of works by Mozart, Bach, Handel and Telemann.

Barthold Kuijken taught historical transverse flute at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague. He is the director of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra .

promotion

In 2007, Kuijken became the first musician in Belgium to obtain a doctorate in the arts ("Doctor in de Kunsten") from the Free University of Brussels (VUB ). The title of his dissertation is: "The Notation is not the Music - Reflections on more than 40 years of intensive practice of Early Music" (essay). The portfolio included all of his recordings and publications.

literature

  • Barthold Kuijken: The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on More Than 40 Years' Intensive Practice of Early Music , ASP Vub Press, 2010, ISBN 978-905487-516-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra
  2. ^ Announcement of the defense of the thesis on the website of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
personal data
SURNAME Kuijken, Barthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian flautist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dilbeek