Thiemo Wind was born in Enschede, The Netherlands in 1961. He studied musicology at Utrecht University with prof.dr. Marius Flothuis and prof.dr. Willem Elders, oboe at Utrecht and the recorder at Hilversum Conservatory. He has written many articles on early woodwinds and other subjects, and specialised in Dutch 17th-century solo music for recorder. On May 29, 2006, he defended his dissertation Jacob van Eyck and the others — Dutch solo repertoire for recorder in the Golden Age at Utrecht University.
In the past Thiemo was musicological advisor to Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and made performing editions of most Beethoven symphonies for them. As an editor, Thiemo Wind has prepared several music publications, including the only complete edition of Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof (XYZ) and an anthology of all solo recorder pieces by van Eyck's colleagues, The Gods' Flute-Heaven (Earlham Press). Facsimile editions of Der Goden Fluit-hemel (1644) and Van Eyck's Euterpe oft Speel-goddinne (1644) were published by the Dutch Foundation for Historical Performance Practice, Stimu. Further editions include recorder sonatas by Diogenio Bigaglia (Schott), Giovanni Paolo Cima and Francesco Geminiani (Broekmans & van Poppel). In 1993 he was the stimulator of the International Recorder Symposium organised by the Stimu, during the Holland Festival of Early Music in Utrecht. For the newest edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians he has covered several topics, including Jacob van Eyck.
Thiemo Wind gave lectures and workshops about Van Eyck at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen (Germany), the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands), the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Austria), and for the European Recorder Teachers Association ERTA (branches UK and The Netherlands). He contributed to radio and television programmes about Van Eyck of broadcasting companies in The Netherlands (VPRO, TROS, VARA, Teleac, Radio Netherlands), Norway (NRK) and Japan (NHK).
He is music editor of the leading Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and lives in Houten, a village six miles south of Utrecht. He is available for lectures and classes.
