Ewald Demeyere, PhD, is a world-leading authority in partimento playing, practical counterpoint and fugue, and historical improvisation. In addition to the many essays on his website www.essaysonmusic.com, he has produced several highly valued publications and peer-reviewed articles:
- the first critical edition of Fedele Fenaroli’s partimenti and regole
- the first critical edition of The Parma Manuscript, one of the earliest sources containing Fenaroli’s intavolaturas (fully written-out keyboard realizations)
- the article “On Fedele Fenaroli’s Pedagogy: An Update” (Eighteenth-Century Music 15/2, Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- the article “Yet Another Galant Schema: The Dominant Pedal Accompanied by a Chromatic Descent” (Eighteenth-Century Music 19/2, Cambridge University Press, 2022)
In 2018, Ewald won the prestigious 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.”
Ewald Demeyere is also an established harpsichordist, conductor, improviser, and university college professor. His research has also resulted in the publication of his much sought-after book Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue—Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory (Leuven University Press, 2013).
As a performing artist, Ewald has taken part in more than 100 CD recordings, many of solo and chamber music repertoire.
As a professor, he teaches:
- partimento, basso continuo, counterpoint, fugue, and oratorio at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
- harpsichord, partimento, practical counterpoint at the keyboard, and basso continuo at the Institut Supérieur Royal de Musique et de Pédagogie (IMEP) in Namur
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