Ewald Demeyere (born 1974) is a Belgian harpsichordist, conductor and music theorist. He is known as an expert in partimento realization and counterpoint.On Fedele Fenaroli’s Pedagogy: An Update (in: Eighteenth-Century Music 15/2, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 207–229
Education Ewald Demeyere received his Master's degree in harpsichord at the University College Antwerp. Immediately after his studies, he became a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and fugue. In 2002, he succeeded Jos van Immerseel as senior lecturer in historical harpsichord. In 2009, Demeyere obtained the degree of Doctor in the Arts at the University of Antwerp and Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen with the 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. In 2013, his book Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue – Performance Practice based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory was published by Leuven University Press.AP Hogeschool Antwerpen Faculty Page
Teaching Partimento, improvisation, oratorio and historical performance practice at the University College Antwerp. Harpsichord, partimento and improvisation at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie of Namur, where he also heads the Early Music department.
Discography
Year of releaseTitle201118th-Century Flemish Harpsichord Music2013Tears – Harpsichord laments from the 17th-Century2016Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Gran Partita2020Bach & Mozart Keyboard Variations on Harpsichord
Awards C.P.E. Bach The Complete Works Counterpoint Contest (2018) – WinnerC.P.E. Bach The Complete Works Counterpoint Contest Contest Results
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Articles
See also Music conservatories of Naples Robert Gjerdingen
References
External links
AP University College Antwerp Faculty Page. IMEP Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie.