— www.toshiyuki-shibata.com toshi711japan@gmail.com
of view regarding an ‘anti-dull’ authenticity, as much for the making of the flute as for the method of playing it. Since 1989 he has taught Baroque transverse flute at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He taught courses on performance at Esmuc Barcelona, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, ‘Internationale HändelAkademie’ Karlsruhe, and the International Flutesymposium Atlanta. Currently he is a flautist in the orchestras Anima Eterna Brugge and La Petite Bande. — www.franktheuns.com
Stefanie Troffaes – Baroque flute
Renaissance - Early Romanticism
Frank Theuns – traverso
Label Alpha, Musica Ficta, naïve,
Label Accent, Zig-Zag Territoires,
Archiv Productions, Aparté, Challenge, Opus Arte, Palazzetto Bru Zane
Frank Theuns completed his musical studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He specialised in playing the Baroque transverse flute. With his ensemble Les Buffardins he has recorded a representative selection of the flute repertoire (Handel, Sammartini, Kirnberger, Quantz, Hotteterre, Montéclair, Boismortier, Blavet) for Accent. In 2006, he recorded the Concerto for Flute and Harp by W. A. Mozart with Anima Eterna Brugge. Over the past decade he has collaborated closely with the instrument maker Andreas Glatt as a ‘taster’ of flutes, with whom he shares the same point
Stefanie Troffaes studied the recorder with Tomma Wessel and Bart Coen, and Baroque flute with Patrick Beuckels, Marc Hantaï, Frank Theuns and Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She was selected to participate with the Académie Baroque européenne d’Ambronay to work under the direction of Christophe Rousset (2001) and Paul McCreesh (2002). In 2002, she became a finalist on Baroque flute at the Musica Antiqua international soloist competition in Bruges. She continues to pursue a historical approach in current performance practice, and her musical interests cover
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ensembles in Belgium. As an active chamber music musician, he collaborates with Bart Naessens, Frank Agsteribbe, Anthony Romaniuk, Consone Quartet, Delfico String Quartet. He is a research fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and a research assistant at the Study Center of Flemish Music. He served as the international liaison of the National Flute Association of USA (2015-17). He is a recipient of scholarship from Flemish government (201415), further, he was granted fellowship/scholarship from University of Sydney in Australia in 2013.