HIP leader, RIP

Peter X says:

Patrick Peire did not “lead the early music revolution in Bruges”.
He was an important and charismatic musician however.
“Patrick Peire studied Latin & Mathematics at the Sint-Lodewijkscollege in Bruges and completed courses in solfège, music history and recorder at the Municipal Music Conservatory. He graduated as a licentiate in Psychology and Educational Sciences and as a candidate in Pedagogy at the University of Ghent in 1968. He also has a master’s degree in music history and archeology from the RUGhent. He also collected first prizes at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, including recorder (Silva Devos).
Peire taught at the Lemmens Institute since 1972, and was a recorder teacher at the SMBrugge and at the National Academy in Ghent for several years. He taught recorder at the Royal Music Conservatory in Ghent since 1981.
He gave guest courses on recorder, flute, choral and orchestral conducting in Belgium, France (including Saintes, Brest and Avalon) and the Philippines.
Peire founded the “ter Duinenensemble” in 1963, the chamber music ensemble Thelemann Barokensemble in 1970 and the chamber orchestra Collegium Instrumentale Brugense (CIB) in 1970.
Between 1975-1990 he was conductor of the West Flemish Vocal Ensemble, and between 1990-2007 he conducted the Capella Brugensis.
1986-1994 he was permanent conductor and artistic director of the new Flemish Symphony Orchestra (today the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders).
He has been guest conductor of the Orchestra of La Monnaie, the Beethoven Academy, the Orchestre de chambre de Wallonie, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Chamber Orchestra Sinfonia, Prima La Musica, the Philharmonic, State Cracow Philharmonic in Krakow and the Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic.
He received the Fugue Trophy from the Union of Belgian Composers in 1998 and won a Grammy Award nomination in the Opera category in 1996 for a CD recording of Tancredi (Rossini).
With the Collegium he performed works such as Bach’s St John Passion and Haendel’s Messiah with a small ensemble. But he never took the step to playing old instruments in the Baroque tuning.