July 23, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:

Thomas Gerber   317-202-0546

INDIANAPOLIS – Barthold Kuijken  assumes the artistic leadership of Indianapolis’ period instruments Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra.

Mr. Kuijken, a native of Belgium, is from a family that pioneered the historically informed performance movement. For many years, Kuijiken performed in the Kuijken Quartet with his older brothers Wieland (cello) and Sigiswald (violin).

Kuijken has played principal flute in the orchestras, La Petite Bande and Collegium Aureum, and conducts regularly in Italy, Canada, Poland, and Indianapolis. His discography includes most of the important 18th-century repertoire for the flute.

International music critics acclaim him as

• “represent(ing) the state of the art in baroque performance: anyone serious about baroque music, flute music, chamber music, or Handel…must hear this disc.” 

•    “In early music circles the outstanding event [of the year] may well have been the solo flute recital of the Belgian virtuoso, Barthold Kuijken” 

•  “…a stunning performance of early music. The Belgian trio comprising two of the three renowned Kuijken brothers [Barthold and Wieland]…gave us a ravishing recital of baroque chamber music…

 Barthold Kuijken directs his first concert as Artistic Director on April 13,14, 2008.

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