Paul Jeukendrup

Head of Department Art of Sound

Paul Jeukendrup (*1964), a sound designer and sound director, studied music registration and electronic composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He has designed and directed sound for festivals (Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Berliner Festwochen, Sonic Evolutions Festival Lincoln Center New York), and specialises in the field of new music.

He has worked in the Netherlands and abroad with composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen (world premiere of the Helikopter Streichkwartett), Louis Andriessen, Heiner Goebbels and Peter Eötvös, and with ensembles such as the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Hilliard Ensemble, MusikFabrik, ASKO|Schönberg and London Sinfonietta.

Paul Jeukendrup taught sound design at Delft University of Technology from 1997 until 2001 and has been teaching at the Royal Conservatoire since 1999. Since 2009 he has been the head of the Royal Conservatoire’s Art of Sound department. He also teaches sound engineering for Sonology students.