Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder (31 December 1925 – 1 January 2020) was a Dutch violinist,

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, and pedagogue. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France. In the 1960s he was a member of the Dutch early music group

Concerto Amsterdam Concerto Amsterdam was a classical chamber ensemble based in the Netherlands and active during the 1960s and 70s in both live performance and the recording studio. It was founded in 1960 by the Dutch violinist Jaap Schröder with most of its members ...

and made recordings with

Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments. Leo ...

, Anner Bylsma, Frans Brüggen and others. Since 1981 he served as the director and concertmaster of the

Academy of Ancient Music The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is a British period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after an 18th-century organisation of the same name (originally the A ...

, and in 1982 he was appointed the visiting music director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He served as a faculty member at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Yale School of Music and the

Luxembourg Conservatory The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree is ...

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Jaap Schröder Discography
indexed by date, by composer and by work.

Additional biography 1925 births 2020 deaths University of Paris alumni Yale School of Music faculty Musicians from Amsterdam Dutch classical violinists Male classical violinists Concertmasters Dutch performers of early music Baroque-violin players Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni Violin pedagogues Dutch music educators 21st-century classical violinists 21st-century male musicians {{netherlands-classical-musician-stub