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Collegium Vocale Gent

Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 on the initiative of Philippe Herreweghe. It was one of the first ensembles to use the then-new ideas about baroque practice in vocal music performances. Read more

Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent, and combined university studies in medicine and psychiatry with a musical training at the conservatory, where he studied piano with Marcel Gazelle. Read more