Ewald Demeyere is a harpsichordist, conductor, improviser, music theorist, and professor. His research has resulted in a PhD and the publication of his book Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue—Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory (Leuven University Press, 2013), as well as his articles “On Fedele Fenaroli’s Pedagogy: An Update” (Eighteenth-Century Music 15/2, Cambridge University Press, 2018) and “Yet Another Galant Schema: The Dominant Pedal Accompanied by a Chromatic Descent” (Eighteenth-Century Music 19/2, Cambridge University Press, 2022). As a performing artist, he has taken part in more than 100 CD recordings, many of solo and chamber music repertoire. Demeyere is Head of the Early Music department at the Conservatory of Namur (www.imep.be), where he is also Professor of harpsichord, partimento, and continuo. At the Conservatory of Antwerp (www.ap.be) he is Professor of counterpoint, partimento, and oratorio.
In 2018, Ewald Demeyere won the C.P.E. Bach The Complete Works Counterpoint Contest with his entry Ricercar a 5 per cembalo, which the jury —headed by Robert D. Levin, Chair of the CPEB:CW Editorial Board— judged “the most accomplished and natural in its flow.”
He is also considered an authority in partimento, a field in which he has produced several important publications: the first critical edition of Fedele Fenaroli’s partimenti and regole, and the critical edition of The Parma Manuscript, one of the earliest sources containing Fenaroli’s intavolaturas (fully written-out keyboard realizations (www.wessmans.com).
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