Frank Theuns

Category:muzikant, docent, solist, oude muziek
Antwerpen, 21.06.1956
Genre(s):barok
Instrument(s):traverso, dwarsfluit
Actual/previous member of:Les Buffardins, La Petite Bande, Anima Eterna Brugge, Ensemble Explorations

Biography

Frank Theuns completed his musical studies at the ‘Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium Brussel’. Deeply interested in historic instruments, 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 under Jos van immerseel for the Zig-Zag Territoires label. This disc received many prizes in the musical press (e. g. the Diapason d’Or).

Passionate about original flutes, he has let himself be seduced as much by the extraordinarily different timbres as by the delightful small imperfections in the old flutes, apparent when applying the appropriate technique for each instrument. Over the past decade he has collaborated closely with the instrument maker Andreas Glatt as a ‘taster’ of flutes. He shares with him the same point 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 ‘Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium Brussel’. He is regularly invited to give courses on performance : Esmuc Barcelona, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, ‘Internationale Händel-Akademie’ Karlsruhe, International Flutesymposium Atlanta etc. Currently he is flautist in the orchestras Anima Aeterna Brugge and La Petite Bande .

Selective discography

J.S. Bach - Sonate e Partite per il Flauto TraversiereJ.S. Bach - Sonate e Partite per il Flauto Traversiere (2021)
Baroque
Frank Theuns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bertrand Cuiller
Venetian flute concertosVenetian flute concertos (2018)
Baroque
Frank Theuns, Antonio Vivaldi, Les Buffardins, Baldassare Galuppi, Tomaso Albinoni
French flute concertosFrench flute concertos (2015)
Baroque
Les Buffardins, Frank Theuns, Jean-Marie Leclair (l'ainé), Michel Blavet, Michel Corrette, Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin, Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (...)
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Symphonies, Concertos, SonatasMozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Symphonies, Concertos, Sonatas (2013)
classicism
Anima Eterna Brugge, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jos van Immerseel, Jane Gower, Yoko Kaneko, Jos van Immerseel, Marjan de Haer, Frank Theuns (...)
J.J. Quantz -  Flute ConcertosJ.J. Quantz - Flute Concertos (2012)
Baroque
Les Buffardins, Johann Joachim Quantz, Frank Theuns
Bach Johann Sebastian - Mis in si kleinBach Johann Sebastian - Mis in si klein (2009)
Baroque
La Petite Bande, Jan Van der Crabben, Ewald Demeyere, Frank Theuns, Koen Plaetinck, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken
Solos for a German FluteSolos for a German Flute (2008)
Baroque
Les Buffardins, Frank Theuns, Martin Bauer, Siebe Henstra, Charles Dieupart, Charles Dieupart, Georg Friedrich Händel
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - KonzerteMozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Konzerte (2006)
classicism
Frank Theuns, Jos van Immerseel, Anima Eterna Brugge, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jos van Immerseel
Les RamagesLes Ramages (2005)
Baroque
Robert Kohnen, Frank Theuns, Martin Bauer, Michel Pignolet de Monteclair
L'insinuante - Flute Music by Michel BlavetL'insinuante - Flute Music by Michel Blavet (2004)
Baroque
Frank Theuns, Ewald Demeyere, Wim Maeseele, Marc Hantaï, Martin Bauer, Michel Blavet

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

J.S. Bach - Sonate e Partite per il Flauto TraversiereJ.S. Bach - Sonate e Partite per il Flauto Traversiere (2021)
Baroque
Frank Theuns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bertrand Cuiller
A guide to period instrumentsA guide to period instruments (2010)
Baroque, romanticism, early music
Diverse uitvoerders
Sonatas for a German fluteSonatas for a German flute (2008)
Baroque
Les Buffardins, Giuseppe Sammartini, Georg Friedrich Händel
Cara Klara 3Cara Klara 3 (2006)
20th century, romanticism, classicism, Baroque, early music, opera
Diverse uitvoerders, Diverse componisten
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Don GiovanniMozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Don Giovanni (2006)
classicism
Werner van Mechelen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Huub Claessens, Elena Vink, Markus Schäfer, Nancy Argenta, Nanco De Vries, Christina Högman (...)
Accents of BaroqueAccents of Baroque (2004)
Baroque
Barthold Kuijken, Marcel Ponseele, Christoph Graupner, Il Gardellino, Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas Fey, Sigiswald Kuijken, Ensemble La Passione (...)
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Don GiovanniMozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Don Giovanni (1997)
classicism
Werner van Mechelen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Huub Claessens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elena Vink, Markus Schäfer, Nancy Argenta, Nanco De Vries (...)
Harmonie und JanitscharenmusikHarmonie und Janitscharenmusik (1988)
classicism
Octophoros, Louis Spohr, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Antonio Rosetti, Paul Dombrecht