 Paul Van Nevel was born into a musical family in Limburg, Belgium, in 1946. He studied at the Maastricht Music Institute and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basle, where he formed the Huelgas Ensemble in 1970. He is now artistic director of the Ensemble as well as a noted conductor and cultural historian and an authority on early notational practice and interpretation. His extensive research into lost works, particularly those of Flemish polyphony, has resulted in the rediscovery of the composers Johannes Ciconia and Nicolas Gombert, on whom he has written monographs and whose music he has recorded with the Huelgas Ensemble. He is a guest lecturer at the Music Highschool in Hannover and a guest conductor with the Dutch Kamerkoor and the Danish Radio Choir.
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