associated_acts background instrument birth_date genre article_title name
amsterdam loeki stardust quartet non_vocal_instrumentalist recorder 1957 early music , baroque music paul leenhouts
 paul leenhouts
paul leenhouts

paul leenhouts is a dutch recorder player , composer and conductor .
leenhouts studied music at the sweelinck conservatory in amsterdam .
together with daniël brüggen , bertho driever , and karel van steenhoven , 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 from 1997 to 2010 .
working with walter van hauwe he developed the `` catalogue for contemporary blockflute music '' .
