Paul Jeukendrup

Paul Jeukendrup is a sound designer and sound director who studied music registration and electronic composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. A specialist in the field of new music, he has designed and directed sound for festivals including the Holland Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Berliner Festspiele and the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.

He has worked with composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen (including on the world premiere of the Helicopter String Quartet), Louis Andriessen, Heiner Goebbels and Peter Eötvös, as well as with ensembles such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble intercontemporain, the Hilliard Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta and Asko | Schönberg. His many collaborations with artists and organizations have included projects with the conductors Simon Rattle, Peter Rundel, Reinbert de Leeuw, Stefan Asbury and David Robertson; the directors Pierre Audi, Johan Simons and Christoph Marthaler; the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.

At the Salzburg Festival, he was responsible for the sound design for Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 conducted by Ingo Metzmacher in 2021, and for Peter Eötvös’s Tri Sestri (Three Sisters) conducted by Maxime Pascal in 2025. He also collaborated with Metzmacher on a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in 2024.

Paul Jeukendrup taught sound design at the Delft University of Technology from 1997 to 2001. He has also taught at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague since 1999 and has been head of the Art of Sound department there since 2009.