Pieter-Jan Belder

Dutch flutist, harpsichordist and conductor, born in 1966. He studied recorder with Ricardo Kanji at the Royal Conservatory at the Hague and harpsichord with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory, where he graduated in 1990 and was member of staff 1990 to 1995. In 1997 Belder was awarded the third prize at the Hamburg NDR Music Prize harpsichord competition. In 2000 he was the winner of the Leipzig Bach harpsichord competition.