Maurice van Lieshout
studied BA-recorder (class of Pieter van Veen) and piano (class of Jacques de Tiège) at the Brabants Conservatorium Tilburg (NL), MA-recorder at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL, class of Ricardo Kanji). With a Nuffic-scholarship, he studied at the Scuola Civica Milano (Italy), a period mainly devoted to the performance practice of Italian repertory from the late middle ages (class of Pedro Memelsdorff).
From 1995 to 2011, Maurice van Lieshout lectured in 'Historical Improvisation' at the University for Music and Theater in Leipzig (Germany). From 2001 to 2012, he also taught 'Music before 1600' at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). From 2004 to 2007, he taught at the Fontys Conservatorium Tilburg (the Netherlands), lecturing in music theory and instrumental performance practice at the department for ‘Early Modal Music and Vocal Ensemble’. From 2007 to 2024, Maurice van Lieshout held a parttime professorship for Early Music at the University of Music, Saarbrücken (Germany), which he combined (from 2011) with a professorship for recorder at the University of Music and Theater in Munich (Germany). In October 2024, he was awarded a fulltime professorship recorder at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen/ Duisburg (Germany).
Maurice van Lieshout is a much sought-after course instructor. He has conducted numerous workshops, lectures and masterclasses at almost all German music universities, as well as at many other renowned institutes and academies in, for instance, Austria (Mozarteum Salzburg, MDW Vienna, Barock Akademie Gmunden), Belgium (Brussels, Leuven, Bruges, Antwerp, Liège), Brazil (USP, UNESP, Festival Internacional de Música Colonial Brasileira Juiz de Fora), Finland (Sibelius Academy Helsinki), France (CNSM Paris), Israel (JAMD, Israel Music Conservatory Tel Aviv), the Netherlands (Conservatories of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg, Maastricht) and Russia (Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow).
Maurice van Lieshout has successfully performed repertoire for the recorder in a wide variety of genres. In 1993, he founded the ensemble ‘Fala Música’, which interprets music from the (late) medieval period. As the artistic director of the ‘Schola Stralsundensis’, he dedicated himself to the music of the Renaissance. Guest conducting engagements with, for instance, the Vienna Baroque Academy and Capella Leopoldina (Austria), as well as his participation in numerous concerts and CD-recordings with ensembles such as Cantus Cölln (Germany), La Gamme Marésienne (NL), Capella Savaria (Hungary) and KYRE (Taiwan) record his keen interest in music of the baroque period. In the field of contemporary music, Maurice van Lieshout has been involved in several world premieres, including his own commissions of works by, among others, Bára Grímsdóttir (Iceland), Paul Frankhuijzen (NL), Caterina Calderoni (Italy) and Josef Tal (Israel).
Maurice van Lieshout has the Dutch nationality and lives in The Hague (NL).
