Education
He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France.
conductor music educator musicologist university professor
He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France.
He served as the director and concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music, and in 1982 he was appointed the visiting music director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He has served as a faculty member at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Yale School of Music and the Luxembourg Conservatory.
In the 1960s he was a member of the Dutch early music group Concerto Amsterdam and made recordings with Gustav Leonhardt, Anner Bylsma, Frans Brüggen and others