Kees Boeke (musician)

Kees Boeke (born January 1950) is a recorder player and composer.

Biography and career

Boeke came from a musical family and began studying with Frans Brüggen when 11 years old. He continued to study recorder with Brüggen and cello with Anner Bylsma at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in Amsterdam. After finishing his studies in 1969 he began to teach at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where his students included the members of the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.

Boeke has performed or worked with Quadro Hotteterre, Little Consort, Sour Cream, Mala Punica, Syntagma Musicum and The Royal Wind Music. He has performed on over sixty recordings for Teldec, Das Alte Werk, EMI, RCA, Nuova Era, Channel Classics, Arcana, Symphonia, Attacca, Erato, Philips, Stradivarius, Glossa, and Mirare. He has taught at a number of schools and conservatories, including Hochschule für Musik and Institut für Alte Musik Trossingen, Germany, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the Sweelinck Conservatorium.

He currently operates an olive farm in Arezzo, Tuscany.

Sources

• O'Kelly, Eve (1990). The Recorder Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521366607. 
• The Image of Melancolly, Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet and Kees Boeke, 1991, Channel Classics.

External links

• Olive Music retrieved May 23, 2015
• Interview by Pamela Hickman, October 10, 2012 retrieved May 23, 2015