Peter Verhoyen

Peter Verhoyen is a flautist and piccolo player.

Biography Peter Verhoyen is principal piccolo of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, co-founder of the chamber music ensemble Arco Baleno, professor of piccolo at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, senior lecturer piccolo at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, and organizer of the International Flute Seminar Bruges.

Piccolo specialist, Verhoyen has commissioned, inspired and premiered a large number of new works for his instrument, notably including 4 piccolo concerti by Levente Gyöngyösi, Robert Groslot, Erik Desimpelaere and Bart Watté. He also realised a of a series of recordings in which the piccolo is the central instrument. At the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Peter Verhoyen developed the first European piccolo Masters program.

Peter Verhoyen has worked with a large number of other performers and orchestras, including Collegium Instrumentale Brugense (conducted by Patrick Peire) and the orchestra Il Novecento (conducted by Robert Groslot).

For his dedication to contemporary Flemish music, Peter has been awarded the Fuga Trofee from the Union of Belgian composers in 2017.

In 2025, Peter Verhoyen was appointed as a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts).

Compositions written for Peter Verhoyen