Welcome!

This website is primarily meant as a source of information. In the past I haven’t felt the need to set up something like this, as it can easily become a rather vain endeavour.

So why this change? Well, mainly because I myself no longer had an overview of everything I had done in the past 50 years; in particular with regards to the blockflute. And as my memory becomes less reliable each year, it seems to me like the right time to do this. In recent years, and especially after the death of my dear maestro and friend Frans Brüggen, I got more and more questions concerning when, with whom, how and why Amsterdam could become an important international centre of professional blockflute. And there is a lot to say about that indeed, as I was part of this for all these years. Of course this modest site is not comprehensive enough to answer all those questions as that would require a lot more research. But perhaps one can still find something in it. For the moment this site mainly concerns my personal blockflute history; later on I might be able to broaden it somewhat.

This site is a work in progress. More info will be added and adjusted. If you find something missing, send me a message on the contact page and I’ll see what I can do.