He was born in Maastricht and studied clavicembalo with Anneke Uittenbosch at the city’s conservatoire. In 1970 he went on to the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatoire where he was a student of Gustav Leonhardt and graduated in 1974. He has played both the harpsichord and the pianoforte across Europe, and in North America, South America, Japan and Korea. He regularly accompanies eminent musicians such as Wilbert Hazelzet, Anner Bijlsma, Max van Egmond, Ricardo Kanji and Marion Verbruggen, and is a member of The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. He was also part of the Concerto Palatino. He has recorded CDs for Philips, Sony, Globe, MD&G, EMI, Accent, Channel Classics, Glossa, Verso and Lindara. He teaches at The Hague Royal Conservatoire and gives masterclasses in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Tokyo, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Krakow and Prague. He directs the summer course in Vancouver. He is also the artistic director of Lyra Baroque Orchestra de Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Minnesota) and has conducted Baroque orchestras in the US, Canada, Poland, Germany and Holland. Jacques Ogg gives courses in clavicembalo at the Academia de Música Antigua de la Universidad de Salamanca and is one of the regular conductors of its Baroque Orchestra.