Paul Leenhouts is a Dutch recorder player, composer and conductor.
Together with Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever, and Karel van Steenhoven, he founded the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet in 1978.
In 1986 he started the Holland Open Recorder Festival in Utrecht, and has been director of the International Baroque Institute in Boston.
He has taught recorder at the Sweelinck Conservatory, is the Director of Early Music Studies at the University of North Texas, and holds master classes in different countries.
[3] Working with Walter van Hauwe, he developed the "Catalogue for Contemporary blockflute Music".