Erik Van Nevel (1956) is a Belgian singer and conductor. He is the nephew of

Paul Van Nevel Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out li ...

. He pursued instrumental and vocal studies at the

Lemmensinstituut The Lemmensinstituut The Lemmensinstituut (Lemmens Institute) is a Belgian conservatory of music. It was founded in Mechelen, in 1879, by the Belgian bishops as the ''École de musique religieuse'' (School of Religious Music). It was later renamed ...

in Leuven, the

Koninklijk Conservatorium (Brussels) The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (french: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) is a historic conservatory in Brussels, Belgium. Starting its activities in 1813, it received its official name in 1832. Provid ...

and the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Antwerp). Van Nevel is both founder and conductor of the Currende choir, the chamber ensemble Currende Consort and the Baroque orchestra known as Concerto Currende, and has also directed the wind ensemble Concerto Palatino. He was choirmaster of Brussels Cathedral from 1983 to 2000, and there founded the Cappella Sancti Michaelis. From 1980 to 1985, he was assistant conductor of the Belgian Radio Choir (Flemish section). Since 1994, van Nevel and Currende have been accorded the title of Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders by the Flemish Community. Van Nevel has concentrated on Flemish Renaissance repertoire, recording for Flemish labels Accent, Eufoda and Etcetera. A major recording milestone was the 10-CD collection of Flemish

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, ...

produced for Davidsfonds to accompany the book ''Flemish Polyphony'' by musicologist Ignace Bossuyt. He was director of the research project ''Sound of the cathedral'' into acoustics and performance space conflicts.University of Leuven
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