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Ewald Demeyere

Ewald Demeyere


Ewald Demeyere studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen, where, besides winning first prizes in solfège, written and practical harmony, counterpoint and fugue, he obtained his master's degree for harpsichord in Jos van Immerseel's class. On completion of his studies in 1997, he was engaged as a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and fugue by the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium Antwerpen. In 2002 he succeeded Jos van Immerseel as Professor of Harpsichord, and teaches harpsichord there on the instruments in the famous collection of the Vleeshuis Museum. As a player of chamber music he has worked with, among others, Barthold and Sigiswald Kuijken, and with Vinciane Baudhuin (Duo Capricornus). In July 2004 he was Guest of Honour at the Festival of Flanders Musica Antiqua in Bruges. Ewald Demeyere has taken part in many recordings for radio and television. Among his CD recordings as a soloist or chamber musician are Tears (Challenge Classics), 18th-Century Flemish Harpsichord Music (recorded on the Dulcken 1747; Challenge Classics), Pièces de Clavecin by Joseph-Hector Fiocco (ACCENT), J. S. Bach – The Young Virtuoso (ACCENT), Sonatas & Fugues by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (ACCENT), Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (ACCENT), Eight Keyboard Sonatas by Thomas Augustine Arne (ACCENT), Flute Sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach (with Barthold Kuijken; ACCENT), The Sonatas for Flute and B.C. by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (with Barthold Kuijken; ACCENT) and Flute Sonatas by the Bach Sons (with Barthold Kuijken; ACCENT). In 2007 he founded the Baroque orchestra  Bach Concentus (www.bachconcentus.be), which has already appeared in Belgium, Italy and Spain. Bach Concentus realized until now three CD recordings for ACCENT. In March 2008 a first double CD appeared with overtures by Johann Bernhard Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. In January 2010 a new CD by Bach Concentus was released, entitled La Bouffonne, with vocal and orchestral works by Georg Philipp Telemann inspired by the commedia dell’arte (with Dorothee Mields, soprano). In April 2012 appeared Symphonies by the Bach Sons, which was awarded a Choc by Musica. In 2009 Ewald Demeyere obtained a PhD at the University of Antwerp and the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen (Associatiefaculteit Kunsten), when he presented his thesis: A Contextual, Text-Critical Analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue – Reflections on Performance Practice and Text-Critical Analysis, and the interaction between them. His book Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue – Performance Practice based on German Eighteenth-CenturyTheory was published by Leuven University Press in 2013. Also in 2013 he has been invited as a jury member to the international harpsichord competition Paola Bernardi in Bologna


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