Barthold Kuijken • Ewald Demeyere (BE)

Barthold Kuijken, traverso, conductor

Barthold Kuijken studied the modern flute at The Royal Bruges Conservatory at the Hague. In order to play early music he first turned to the recorder.

His research using authentic instruments, added to his frequent collaboration with the Flute makers, and also advanced studies of 17 Th and 18 Th century sources of information, have lead him to become a  well known specialist in period instruments. For many years he performed with the Baroque Orchestra “ Collegium Aureum” and “ La Petite Bande”.

He has played Chamber music all over the world, extending his repertory to the beginning of the 19 th century. He has made many recordings.

He also participated in concerts of the Belgian ensemble “Musiques Nouvelles”.

Notation is not the music—Reflections of more than 40 years’ intensive practice of early Music.

Ewald Demeyere, clavecin

Edwald Demeyre studied at the Royal Conservatory of Anvers (Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium , Antwerp ), where he obtained first prize in musical notation as well as written and practical harmony, of counterpoint and fugue. He received a Masters in Harpsichord with Jos Van Immerseel. As from the end of his studies in 1997 he was engaged by the same Conservatory of music in Antwerp as Professor of Harmony, counterpoint and fugue.

In 2002 he took over from Jos van Immerseel and taught the Harpsichord using the famous instrument of Joannes Daniel Duleken (1747) belonging to the Vleehuis museum. In the domain of Chamber music he worked with Barthold, Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken as well as Dombrecht. For many years Edwald was a member of “La Petite Bande” (Sigiswald Kuijken) and “Il Fondamento” (Paul Dombrecht).

In July 2004 he was guest of honour at The Festival Musique Antiqua in Bruges. He has participated in numerous recordings for radio and television. Chamber music and solo records include “Tears” (Challenge Classics), “18 th Century Flemish Harpsichord Music “ ( recorded on the Duiken 1747..Challenge Classics ), “Pièces de Clavecin” by Joseph Hector Fiocco (ACCENT), J-S Bach “The Young Virtuoso” (ACCENT), “Sonatas and Fugues” by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach (ACCENT), Domenico Scarlatti “Sonatas” (ACCENT), “Eight Keyboard Sonatas “ by Thomas Austine Arne, “Flute Sonatas” by Johann Sebastian Bach ( with Barthold Kuijken, ACCENT),”The Sonatas for Flute and B.C.” de Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (with Barthold Kuijken, ACCENT),and “Flute Sonatas by the Bach Sons “ (with Barthold Kuijken . ACCENT). In 2007 Edwald Demeyre founded the baroque Orchestra “ Bach Concentus “ (www.bach concentus.be) who play regularly in Belgium, Italy and Spain.

The “Bach Concentus” has recently produced three recordings with ACCENT : A double CD  dedicated to the works of Johann Bernard Bach and Georg Phillipp Telemann ( March 2008) and a CD entitled “La Bouffonne” entirely dedicated to Georg Phillipp Teleman and includes orchestral suites inspired at the “ Commedia dell’arte “, along with two profane cantatas interpreted by the Soprano Dorothy Mields ( January 2010) and the third “Symphonie by Bach Sons” (April 2012) which was honoured by the prestigious “Choc de Classica”

Edwald Demeyre obtained the title of Doctor in arts in 2009 at the University of Anvers and “L’Artesis Hogeschool” ,Antwerp, for his thesis ; A Contextual , Text critical Analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach’s, Art of the 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 Century Theory “ has been edited and published by the University Press of Louvain.