About us

The FR2 combines intimate and flawless ensemble play with effective programming.

Flanders Recorder Duo has been giving recorder workshops as well as concerts since 2013, visiting England, Scotland, Belgium, Germany and the USA. Their unique and effective programming presents the recorder as a fully-fledged musical instrument both in early music and conventional concert series. Click here for their concert repertoire list.

The recorder duo might not have an explosive dynamical reach nor tons of world-class repertoire, but when FR2 showcases the recorder’s colours and feathers, sizes and styles, the audience surely will be amazed.

Their first CD came out beginning July 2021 on the Aeolus label. It features a splendid variety of styles and era’s, two contemporary commissions and the word premiere of the duets for pipes by Ralph Vaughan-Williams. Exciting!

In 2022, FR2 started studying original English recorders from the thirties of the twentieth century, which they also use to make recordings.

In the spring of 2025, the release of two new albums of music by Soeren Sieg (with the composer at the piano) and a recording of the entire oeuvre of Ralph Vaughan Williams on bamboo pipes, according to the customs of the Pipers Guild.

FR2 is Joris Van Goethem and Tom Beets. Simply click our names to read individual biographies.