Frédéric de Roos is a Belgian recorder player, conductor, and teacher born on January 31, 1958, in Brussels, Belgium. He began studying solfège at the Académie d’Uccle before discovering the recorder under Silva Devos, and later studied under Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam. He pursued musicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, graduating in 1980 with a thesis on eighteenth-century recorder repertoire. His career as a soloist and conductor grew in the late 1970s and 1980s, performing with ensembles such as the Ricercar Consort, Les Agrémens, Le Concert des Nations, and La Pastorella, which he directed. His discography includes his debut album, Musique italienne du XVIII e siècle (1981), as well as Recorder Sonatas de George Frideric Handel (1985), G. P. Telemann's Doppelkonzerte mit Blockflöte, Suite a-moll (1988), and Vivaldi's Concerti per flauto op. 10 (1999), which received a Diapason d'Or. In 1983, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles as a recorder professor, later serving as the institution's director from 2003 to 2023. In 2022, he was appointed a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France.
