Boaz Berney studied traverso with Wilbert Hazelzet in The Royal Conservatory, The Hague. He is active in various early music ensembles and performs music from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In addition to his activities as a performer, Boaz also makes copies of historical flutes after original instruments in various European museums, and plays on flutes that he has made himself.  He participates regularly in early music exhibitions in London, Berlin, Boston, Utrecht and Vienna.  From 1995 to 1998 he was employed by The Gemeente Museum in The Hague to do research and conservation on the flutes in their collection. Boaz is also researching the history of the renaissance flute, and has been invited to lecture in various symposiums dedicated to the history of renaissance woodwinds.