Ensemble Fabridoen (their name derived from the Old Dutch spelling of ​“fauxbour­don”) was found­ed in 2017 by Jole De Baerdemaeker (23−03−1994), Eva Ivanova-Dyatlova (30−11−1990) and Elias Conrad (28−06−1996). As stu­dents at the Institute for Early Music at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg they all share a pas­sion for com­posers of the Franco-Flemish School. During the last two years they have been immerg­ing them­selves in the music and his­to­ry of one par­tic­u­lar com­pos­er; a chapel mas­ter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, by the name of Thomas Crecquillon. His music, large­ly for­got­ten, has a qual­i­ty and refine­ment which more than match­es that of his more well-known con­tem­po­raries, such as Clemens non Papa and Nicolas Gombert. The com­bi­na­tion of voice, flute and lute, which was very pop­u­lar at the time, is an ide­al look­ing glass for chan­sons of the 16^th cen­tu­ry. The rel­a­tive obscu­ri­ty of Crecquillon is noth­ing but an encour­age­ment for the young ensem­ble to (re)discover more about him and his music, and hope­ful­ly intro­duce the fruits of their research to the wider audi­ence. In their inves­ti­ga­tion and per­for­mance of renais­sance music, Ensemble Fabridoen has been taught by Ulrike Hofbauer, Hans Brüderl, Marcello Gatti, Evelyn Tubb, Anthony Rooley, Robert Selinger and Johanna Bartz.