Florian Heyerick studied in Ghent, Brussels and Leuven and obtained First Prizes for recorder, flute and chamber music. He also obtained a master's degree in musicology from Ghent University. He was an artistic teacher at the Ghent Music Conservatory (School of Arts, Hogeschool Gent) and is working on a research project on the music of Christoph Graupner, culminating in the Graupner2010 project. Furthermore, he founded the specialised CD label Vox Temporis, within which he realised more than 50 unique recordings as producer.

Florian is the founder and, since 1989, artistic director of the Vocal Ensemble Ex Tempore. He has also been a regular guest conductor with, among others, the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, the baroque orchestra Les Agremens, the Flemish Radio Choir, Musica Antiqua Köln, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, etc. He has also been a regular guest with the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra in Amsterdam, now the Holland Symfonia, since 1998. He also performs frequently as a soloist on recorder and harpsichord.

From 2002 to 2004, he was chief conductor of the Kurpfälziches Kammerorchester Mannheim/Ludwigshafen. He also conducted the Wereldjeugdkoor (Namur), deFilharmonie (Antwerp), the Gelders Orkest (Arnhem), the Rotterdam Philharmonie, and a production at the Operastudio Gent (Reinhard Keiser). Today, he is artistic director of the Musikforum Mannheim and the baroque orchestra Mannheimer Hofkapelle (D).

As an instrumentalist and conductor, he has made numerous CD recordings: together with Ex Tempore in works by Telemann, Handel, Monteverdi, Herzogenberg, Scarlatti, M. Haydn, Graupner, Johann Ludwig Bach and Krebs, among others; with the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra in Mozart's noted production 'Magic Flute'; as an instrumentalist in works for two harpsichords and cantatas by Bononcini and Telemann.

In 1997, Florian was also festival star of the Festival of Flanders, and in 2000 he received the culture prize of the City of Ghent. He is also the cultural ambassador of his hometown Merelbeke.

His efficient and fresh approach, his stylistic insight into many different style periods and his commitment to professionalising choral singing are appreciated by many musicians and organisers at home and abroad.

He conveys his constant focus on repertoire renewal through countless lectures and original concert programmes, as shaped in the remarkable Kantata project (2001-2010) and the Cydonia Barocca festival (from 2017).

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