They already spent half a lifetime researching and promoting Chinese traditional music

and continue to do so today: Frank Kouwenhoven

a Dutch journalist

met his wife Antoinet Schimmelpenninck at Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1984

at the time when she was studying Chinese. They shared a passion for music and actually encountered one another in a student choir

singing Bach and Mozart together. But soon they were to embark on musical journeys of a very different kind.