
Rosario Conte wurde 1966 in Taranto (Italien) geboren.
Er studierte Violine mit Krzysztof Stockmialek und Alessandro Perpich und Gitarre, Laute, Theorbe und Generalbass mit Mario d'Agosto, Terrell Stone und Franco Pavan.
Im Jahre 1991 erwarb er sein Gitarrendiplom und 2002 sein Lautendiplom am Konservatorium "N. Piccinni" von Bari, beide mit Auszeichnung.
Er besuchte mehrere Fortbildungskurse und Master Classes, u.a. mit Rolf Lieslevand an der "Académie de Musique de Sion" und an der Musikschule Sund (Norwegen), und mit Hopkinson Smith am "Centre de Musique Ancienne" von Aix-en-Provence.
Zwischen 2002 und 2004 hat er mit Hopkinson Smith an der "Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" (Basel) studiert.
Regelmässig tritt er auf als Solist und in kammermusikalischen Besetzungen an wichtigen Festivals und Konzertsaisons in Italien, Spanien, Frankreich, Portugal, Littauen, Bolivien, Österreich, Deutschland, Ukraine und in der Schweiz. Als Continuo-Begleiter spielt er u.a. mit den Orchestern "La Lyra di Amphione", "La Confraternita de' Musici", „Accademia Bizantina“, Kammerorchester Basel barock, „Freiburger barockorchester“,“Musica Inaudita“ Zürcher Barockorchester, „l’Amoroso“ und mit dem Ensemble “La Tempesta”. Er spielt zusammen mit Solisten wie S. Montanari, G. Carmignola, O. Dantone, C. Bartoli, S. Balestracci. N. Kitaya.
Er ist Gründungsmitglied des "Ensemble Terra d'Otranto", mit dem er das reiche und zum Teil unbekannte musikalische Repertoire des Apulischen Barocks wiederentdeckt und auf die europäischen Bühnen bringt.
Er hat für die italienische RAI3 Radio, die französische „France Musique“ und die schweizerische DR2 Kanale sowie „Euroradio Konzerte“ aufgenommen.
Aufnahmen für „Logos“, „Salento altra Musica“, „Bongiovanni“, „Tactus“, “DAD Records”, „Velut Luna“.
Rosario Conte ist Lautenlehrer am Konservatoriun “N. Piccinni” von Bari (I).

Repertorio
L’Opera di Santa Ildegarda di Bingen e repertorio medioevale
Repertorio italiano del XVI/XVII: Monteverdi, Strozzi, Frescobaldi, Caccini.
As an accomplished interpreter of ancient and modern music, Maria Jonas is constantly searching for an adequate and lively ways of performing musical works.
To this purpose, she founded the ensembles "convoce.coeln" (vocal music of the 16th – 17th century) and, together with Norbert Rodenkirchen, "Diphona" (a duo keen on improvisation for performing medieval music) as well as "Condanza" (music and dance).
This work lead to completely new and unconventional styles of performance which go far beyond the framework of a usual concert and thus led to invitations to various festivals in Europe, Australia, USA and Asia.
Concert trips, including with the European Baroque Orchestra conducted by Roy Goodman and the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner, took her to all corners of Europe. In the field of musical theatre, Maria Jonas has received tour contracts from, among others, from Teatro Regio di Parma, the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, the Teatro Real of Madrid, the Teatro Camoes Lisboa, Landestheater Neuss, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Ludwigsburg. In the title role of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson Opera "The White Raven" and under the musical direction of Dennis Russell Davies, she performed in Lisbon, Madrid, the Carnegie Hall (NYC) and could be seen in July 2001 at the Lincoln Center Festival (NYC).
As an interpreter of contemporary music, Maria Jonas could be heard performing at the Musiktagen für Neue Musik in Donaueschingen and at the International Summer Course for Contemporary Music in Darmstadt. She regularly works with composers such as Manos Tsangaris, Maria de Alvear and Johannes S. Sistermans.
After studying the oboe at the conservatory of music in Cologne, Maria Jonas spent several years in Venezuela. There, she founded and successfully managed a music school. Back in Europe, the artist concentrated on her training as a singer and studies of ancient music. She mainly studied with Jessica Cash in London as well as with Monserrat Figueras in Barcelona and René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Besides her concert activities and various CD and radio recordings, Maria Jonas has had a guest professorship for Historic Singing at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen/Duisburg since 1999. In her home town of Brühl near Cologne, Maria Jonas has a cinema for art films which has won an award for its quality.

Repertorio proposto
Violino
L’opera V di A. Corelli
Le Sonate a Violino Solo di J.S. Bach
Musica di insieme
Il primo Libro di Andrea Falconieri
Diplomato in violino presso il Conservatorio di Musica di Lecce, si è perfezionato con Carlo Chiarappa e Renato Zanettovich presso la Scuola di Musica di Fiesole e l’Accademia Internazionale di Musica del Mozarteum di Salisburgo.
Dal 1991 si dedica allo studio del repertorio tardo-rinascimentale e barocco.
Ha frequentato corsi e seminari in Italia, Inghilterra e Francia con Laura Alvini, Bruce Dickey, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Maggie Faultless, Jaap Schröder ed Enrico Gatti.
Nel 1999 ha conseguito il diploma di violino barocco sotto la guida di Enrico Gatti presso il Dipartimento di Musica Antica della Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano.
Con l’Ensemble Terra d’Otranto, da lui fondato e diretto, e con diversi gruppi specializzati in prassi esecutiva filologica, di cui è maestro di concerto, si è esibito nei principali festival di musica antica italiani e europei (Belgio, Malta, Grecia, Spagna, Portogallo, Montenegro) eseguendo in prima assoluta opere di L. Leo, A. Scarlatti, A. Stradella, G. Tricarico, D. Sarri, P. Cafaro, G. Paisiello, G. Greco, A. Falconieri, I. Gerusalemme, P. Nenna, autori anonimi del Sud Italia, della Spagna e del Portogallo dei sec. XII, XIV, XVI, XVII e XVIII.
Doriano Longo affianca all’attività concertistica quella didattica e organizzativa. Con l’Ensemble Terra d’Otranto organizza corsi, seminari e stagioni concertistiche. E’ ideatore e direttore artistico del festival di musica antica Il Montesardo, organizzato dalla Città di Alessano e dalla Regione Puglia.
Collabora con compagnie teatrali, enti ed istituzioni varie, tra cui: Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Assessorato alla Cultura della Provincia di Lecce, Dipartimento di Musicologia del Conservatorio di Lecce, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali e Facoltà di Filologia Linguistica dell’Università di Lecce, Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce, RAI Radio Televisione Italiana, E.C.CO. Eastern College Consortium (U.S.A.).
Dal 2001 è titolare delle cattedre di violino barocco e musica d’insieme per strumenti antichi presso il Dipartimento di Musica Antica del Conservatorio di Lecce.
Nel settembre del 2001 è stato insignito del premio nazionale “Foglie di Tabacco” come riconoscimento per lo studio e l’opera di diffusione della musica antica pugliese.
Nel febbraio del 2003 si è esibito con l’Ensemble Terra d’Otranto in diretta radiofonica per RAI Radio Tre nell’ambito della rassegna “Concerti dal Quirinale”.
Nei mesi di aprile e maggio dello stesso anno RAI Due ha dedicato all'Ensemble gli speciali “Tarantule, Antidoti e Follie” e “Mila, Mila Dodeka” (il primo, menzione d’onore al festival internazionale di Varsavia, sulle forme musicali del Seicento legate al tarantismo; il secondo sulla cultura greco-bizantina del Salento) all'interno della trasmissione televisiva "Sulla via di Damasco" con la regia di Leandro Lucchetti.
Nell’agosto del 2004 ha curato l’edizione critica e la ristampa in notazione moderna de “I Lieti Giorni di Napoli” op. XI di Girolamo Melcarne “Il Montesardo”.
Ha inciso per Arcana, Amadeus, Agorà, CD Classica, Tactus, III Millennio, DAD Records, Velut Luna, Audiophile Sound, Salento Altra Musica.
Doriano Longo graduated in violin at the Conservatorio di Musica of Lecce and continued his studies with Carlo Chiarappa and Renato Zanettovich at the Fiesole Music School and at the Mozarteum International Academy of Music in Salzburg. Since 1991 he has devoted himself to the study of early music, attending courses and master-classes in Italy, England and France with Laura Alvini, Bruce Dickey, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Maggie Faultless, Jaap Schröder and Enrico Gatti. In 1999 he was awarded a diploma in baroque violin in Milan at the Early Music Department of the Civica Scuola di Musica where he studied with Enrico Gatti.
He is the founder and director of the Ensemble Terra d’Otranto and the leader of various early music groups with which he has taken part at prestigious festivals in Italy and in Europe (Belgium, Greece, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain,). He has performed, for the first time this century, works by Pietro Migali, Leonardo Leo, Gaetano Greco, Andrea Falconieri, Gerolamo Melcarne “Il Montesardo”, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Domenico Sarri, Pasquale Cafaro, Ignazio Gerusalemme, Pomponio Nenna and other composers from the South of Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Since 2001 Doriano Longo teaches baroque violin and chamber music at the Early Music Department of the Conservatorio di Musica of Lecce. He also organises seminars, courses and Master classes and is, since 2000, the artistic director of the early music festival "Il Montesardo” sponsored by the City of Alessano (Lecce) and the Apulia Region.
He has also extensively researched on traditional music from Salento (Apulia) focusing on the ritual and therapeutic aspects of Tarantism and has often been invited at festivals and conferences to perform music from this tradition and to give talks on this subject.
He has produced, among others, the following works: two documentaries for RAI Due on Salento traditional music Tarantule, Antidoti e Follie (mention of honour at the European Television Festival of Warsaw, 2004), and Mila, Mila Dòdeka; La Gerusalemme Liberata for Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, in collaboration with the actor Michele Mirabella; La Favola di Zoza, from G.B. Basile’s Lo Cunto de li Cunti, for La Casa dei Doganieri, in collaboration with the actor Paolo Panaro; I Capricci di Proteo for Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali dell’Università di Lecce; Omaggio a Girolamo Comi for Facoltà di Filologia Linguistica dell’ Università di Lecce; Seminario sul Tarantismo for Eastern College Consortium (U.S.A.); the early music festival Il Montesardo for Città di Alessano and Regione Puglia; Danzare col Ragno for Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, in collaboration with the actor Brizio Montinaro.
Doriano Longo has recorded for Arcana, Amadeus, Agorà, CD Classica, Tactus, III Millennio, DAD Records, Velut Luna, Audiophile Sound, Salento Altra Musica, RAI Due TV and Radio Tre RAI. He was awarded in September 2001 the national prize “Foglie di Tabacco”, for the study and promotion of Apulian composers of the Baroque period.

Egon Mihajlovic, born in 1972, finished his studies of historical keyboard instruments and ancient music in 1992 at Musikhochschule Franfurt a.M. He studied under Prof. Harald Hoeren and graduated with highest honors. At the same institution he also completed a master's degree and postgraduate studies in 1996 with a specialisation under Prof. Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Prof. Bob van Asperen.
Since 1990, he has been invited to give concerts at many renowned music festivals and concert halls ( Sala Scarlatti Napoli, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gasteig München, Alte Oper Frankfurt, WDR Köln, Tage der Alten Musik Herne, Brugge, Cannes, Nice, Zuerich, Lausanne, Granada, Madrid, Dijon, Fano, Pesaro, Venezia, Varaždin, etc. ). He was the organiser and leader of many youth education master classes in European music cultural heritage, music for harpsichord and organs ( Conservatorio Statale di Musica Rossini a Pesaro, Conservatorio Statale di Musica Frescobaldi a Ferrara, Chiusi della Verna in Toscany, Jeunesses musicales, Courses musicaux du Var, Jugendfestspiele Bayreuth, Tage Alter Musik Nuernberg, Tage Alter Musik Berlin-Steglitz, Conservatorio di Musica Pesaro, Musikhochschule Wien, Thueringische Sommerakademie, Montenegro music Festival, KotorArt, etc. ).
Like member of Jury he was invitet to several national and international competitions, like "Jugend Musiziert" in Germany from 1998 to 2000; on the world competition for singers "L´Orfeo - 400th anniversary" by UNESCO in Verona 2007, on the italian national harpsichord competition in Peasro 2007.
Since 1994, he has been the artistic director of a vocal-instrumental ensemble, Compagnie Fontainebleau, specializing in performances of baroque operas, spectacles and sacral music. It has been very successful in performing operas by Monteverdi, Delalande, Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Haendl and Telemann. Compagnie Fontainebleau has been invited to celebrate several state- and cultural events (the 250th aniversary of baroque opera in Bayreuth, the reopening of the Cathedral of St. Tryphon with Vespro by Monteverdi, the 300th aniversary of state Prussia ). As a guest-conductor, he works with Berlin Baroque, Viaggio musicale, Ballet baroque Berlin, and Zuericher Kammerorchester.
He taught as a docent and guest professor at Hermann-Zilcher-Konservatorium Würzburg, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg/Augsburg, Universität Bayreuth and is currently working at Music Academy in Cetinje, Montenegro. From 2002 to 2004, he was a representative for culture and science for the Republic Montenegro in Berlin, Germany.
Since 2004, Egon Mihajlovi? has been the director of the International Festival and Institut for Early Music, developing culture and musical heritage, «ARS et MUSICA ANTIQUA» in Perast, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, which was declared a world cultural heritage site by UNESCO, 25 years ago.

Giovannimaria Perrucci completed his studies in Organ and in Organ, Harpsichord and Composition at the Conservatorio di Musica “Gioacchino Rossini” in Pesaro. He won several scholarships and took part in study seminars - in Italy, France, Austria and Liechtenstein – on the European organ repertoire. He furthered his studies in the organ class of Xavier Darasse at the Conservatoire National Superiéur in Lyon and in the harpsichord class of Jan Willem Jansen at the Conservatoire National in Toulouse.
He has performed in concerts throughout Europe as soloist as well as with leading ensembles (”Capilla Flamenca” and “Terra d’Otranto”) and has taken part in major European festivals.
He has made radio recordings for Italian RAI, Radio Montebeni and for Deutschlandfunk, Kholn; CD recordings for “Discantica” in Milano, “ Bongiovanni” in Bologna and for "Opera 3" in Madrid.
A founding member of the Associazione Marchigiana Organistica and of the Istituto Marchigiano di Studi Organari he is involved in conserving, studying and restoring historic organs. He has coordinated the first stage in the Inventory of Historic Instruments in the Marche region, promoted and funded by the Centro Beni Culturali of the Marche Regional Authority. As an expert, he has also carried out many restoration works to historic organs in his own diocese, in Italy and abroad.
He has written two publications on historic organs in the Diocese of Recanati and Macerata (with F. Quarchioni) and of Fano, Fossombrone, Cagli and Pergola (in “Studia Picena” – Ancona 1997/2003). A volume on the restoration of the organ of the Basilica of San Paterniano in Fano is published for the series “Tastata” of the Istituto dell’Organo Storico Italiano in Rome (“Il Levante”).
He is the founder and coordinator of the project entitled “Hydraulis – organ history on either side of the Adriatic Sea” - , which brings together various Italian regions, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and Greece.
He teaches at the Conservatorio “G. B. Pergolesi” in Ancona, is organist at the Basilica of San Paterniano in Fano and artistic director of the “Castelli d’Aria” Itinerant Organ Festival, which takes place around the Province of Pesaro and Urbino.

Nato ad Ancona nel 1965.
Si è diplomato in Organo e Composizione Organistica con il massimo dei voti sotto la guida del Maestro P. Tarducci e in Clavicembalo, sempre con il massimo dei voti, presso il Conservatorio di Musica "G. Rossini" di Pesaro dove, successivamente, ha ottenuto il diploma di Composizione sotto la guida del Maestro M. Ferrante.
Di grande importanza per la sua formazione artistica sono state le lezioni con i Maestri Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini e Liuwe Tamminga.
Si dedica anche all'approfondimento delle problematiche inerenti la prassi esecutiva della musica rinascimentale e barocca attraverso lo studio dei trattati e degli strumenti dell'epoca.
Ha vinto la prima edizione della borsa di studio "F. Barocci" per giovani organisti, istituita ad Ancona nel 1986.
Finalista al 3° Concorso Internazionale d'Organo di Carouge - Genève (CH), nel 1992 si è aggiudicato il III° premio al 1° Concorso Internazionale d'Organo "Città di Milano", e nel 1994 il IV° premio all'11° Concorso Internazionale d'Organo di Brugge (B).
Nel 1998 si è aggiudicato il I° premio al prestigioso 12° Concorso Internazionale d’Organo “Paul Hofhaimer” di Innsbruck (A), assegnato solo quattro volte nella sua quarantennale storia.
Ha tenuto masterclass e corsi di perfezionamento (Conservatorio “G. Rossini”, Pesaro, Corsi di Musica Antica a Magnano, Università di Padova) e si è esibito in numerose ed importanti rassegne e festival in Italia e all'estero (Austria, Repubblica Ceca, Danimarca, Francia, Germania, Olanda, Portogallo, Serbia e Montenegro, Spagna, Svizzera) soprattutto come solista, ma anche in varie formazioni cameristiche ed orchestrali (L’Arte dell’Arco – Padova, Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini – Napoli, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Francia, Venice Baroque Orchestra – Venezia).
Attualmente è titolare della cattedra di Organo e Composizione Organistica presso il Conservatorio di Musica "U.Giordano" di Foggia.
Ha inoltre registrato per le case discografiche Symphonia, Lucca (A. Subissati, con l’Ensemble Musica Prattica), La Bottega Discantica, Milano (La Partita), Tactus, Bologna (L’organo in Europa fra Rinascimento e Barocco, due CD dedicati a Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Gaetano Valeri), ORF Edition – Alte Musik, Austria (Intabolatura di balli), Dynamic, Genova (G. Tartini, con L’Arte dell’Arco – Padova), Arion, Parigi (Alla maniera italiana), Motette, Düsseldorf (I nuovi organi del Duomo di Monza, in collaborazione con Andrea Marcon), Deutsche Grammophon (G. F. Händel, A. Vivaldi, con la Venice Baroque Orchestra – Venezia); le pubblicazioni discografiche sono state recensite e segnalate da importanti riviste: Amadeus, CD Classics, Diapason, Early Music Review, Goldberg, La tribune de l’orgue, Le Monde de la Musique, Musica, Organist’s Review.
Was born in Ancona (Italy) in 1965.
He received a diploma in Organ and Composition for Organ with first-class standings studying under Professor P. Tarducci and a first-class diploma in Harpsichord at the Conservatory “G. Rossini” of Pesaro, where, subsequently, he obtained a diploma in Composition under Professor M. Ferrante.
He studied also under Liuwe Tamminga at the Academy of Italian Organ Music in Pistoia and in Bologna (S. Petronio); subsequently he continued his organ studies under Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini.
Furthermore, he devotes his time to research into the problems inherent in the performance practice of Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic music, through the study of treatises and original instruments.
He won the first edition of the scholarship “F. Barocci” for young organists in 1986.
In 1992 he won the third prize at the First International Organ Competition “Città di Milano” (I), in 1994 he was a finalist at the Third International Organ Competition of Carouge - Genève (CH) and he won the fourth prize at the Eleventh International Organ Competition of Brugge (B).
In 1998 he won the first prize at the Twelfth International Organ Competition “Paul Hofhaimer” of Innsbruck (A), whose jury awarded only four times over its 40-year history.
He has been invited to give masterclasses and courses (Corsi di Musica Antica a Magnano, Conservatory “G. Rossini” – Pesaro, University of Padova) and he has performed in important concert seasons and festivals in Italy and abroad (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland), both as soloist and in various chamber ensemble and orchestras (L’Arte dell’Arco – Padua, Cappella della Pietà dè Turchini – Naples, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Venice Baroque Orchestra – Venice).
He currently holds the teaching posts of Organ and Composition for Organ at the Conservatory “U. Giordano” of Foggia.
He has recorded for Symphonia, Lucca (A. Subissati, with the Ensemble Musica Prattica), La Bottega Discantica, Milano (La Partita), Tactus, Bologna (L’organo in Europa fra Rinascimento e Barocco, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Gaetano Valeri), ORF Austria (Intabolatura di balli), Dynamic, Genova (G. Tartini, with L’Arte dell’Arco – Padua), Arion, Paris (J. S. Bach “Alla maniera italiana”), Motette, Düsseldorf (Die neuen Orgeln im Dom zu Monza, with Andrea Marcon), Deutsche Grammophon (G. F. Händel, A. Vivaldi, with Venice Baroque Orchestra – Venice); excellent reviews on: Amadeus, CD Classics, Diapason, Early Music Review, Goldberg, La tribune de l’orgue, Le Monde de la Musique, Musica, Organist’s Review.

Le opere per basso di violino (violone), violoncino e violoncello (XV/XVIII sec.).
Opere per violoncello solista del repertorio sei/settecentesco.
Marc Vanscheeuwijck, nato in Belgio nel 1962, ottenne la laurea in musicologia, storia dell’arte, filologia romanza e pedagogia (1984), nonché il dottorato di ricerca in musicologia (1995) all’università di Gand e il diploma di violoncello (1986) al Conservatorio di Bruges, specializzandosi in seguito nel violoncello barocco con Wouter Möller a El Escorial (Spagna).
Dopo otto anni di ricerca sulla musica sacra bolognese del tardo Seicento—i cui risultati furono messi a frutto nella monografia The Cappella Musicale of San Petronio under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674-1695), Roma-Bruxelles, 2003—si trasferì negli Stati Uniti, ove dal 1995 è professore associato e titolare della cattedra di musicologia (Rinascimento, Barocco, periodo classico, prassi esecutiva della musica antica e violoncello barocco) all’Università dell’Oregon.
Come violoncellista suona in vari complessi in Belgio (More Maiorum, Les Muffatti), Italia (La Venexiana) e Stati Uniti (Arcangeli Baroque Strings) ed ha partecipato con alcuni di essi alla registrazione di una decina di dischi.
Svolge un’intensa attività di concertista in tutta Europa, Stati Uniti e Canada, suonando nei festival di musica antica più prestigiosi; scrive articoli in riviste specializzate e per fascicoli illustrativi di CD e viene regolarmente invitato per corsi estivi, conferenze e seminari in varie università american e spagnole, nei conservatori di Bruxelles, dell’Aia e al Museo della Musica di Bologna. Ha pubblicato musiche violoncellistiche bolognesi del Seicento (D. Gabrielli, G. Jacchini, G.B. Degli Antonii) in facsimile ed edizioni moderne per la Forni a Sala Bolognese.
Marc Vanscheeuwijck is a baroque cellist and an associate professor of musicology at the University of Oregon. Vanscheeuwijck teaches the undergraduate and graduate music history surveys of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, Performance Practice, Baroque Cello, and directs the Collegium Musicum ensemble, which specializes in early music.
Graduate seminar topics have included Monteverdi, Bach’s Sacred Cantatas, Organology, Baroque Culture, Latin American Baroque Music, Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, and Boccherini. He also teaches a course on Styles in History in the Humanities program. As a teacher and guest lecturer, he regularly offers seminars and master classes on various topics in music and performance practice of the Baroque period at the conservatories of Brussels, Ghent, The Hague, and Amsterdam, and at the University of Alcalà de Henares and the Museo della Musica in Bologna. He teaches baroque cello at the annual baroque music summer workshop of the San Francisco Early Music Society in San Rafael.
Vanscheeuwijck is a frequent performer and recording artist with European early music ensembles, including the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio (Bologna), More Maiorum and Les Muffatti (Belgium), and with such American ensembles as Arcangeli Baroque Strings (Berkeley), and New York State Baroque (Ithaca, NY).
Vanscheeuwijck studied cello and chamber music at the Bruges and Ghent Conservatories and baroque cello with Wouter Möller; he holds degrees in art history, Romance languages, and pedagogy, and a doctorate in musicology from the University of Ghent (1995). His current research focuses on late 17th-century music in Bologna and on the history and repertoire of bass violins. He has published articles in Musica Antiqua (1985–91), in La Cappella Musicale nell’Italia della Controriforma (1993), in Performance Practice Review (1995–96), in the Alamire Yearbook (1998/2000), in La Figura e l’opera di Antonio Cesti nel Seicento europeo (2003), and in the yearbooks of the Orpheus Institute and of the A.M.I.S. (2006). Several articles he revised on Bolognese composers appeared in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) and in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1994–2006). Vanscheeuwijck’s book, The Cappella Musicale of San Petronio in Bologna under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674–1695): History-Organization-Repertoire, was published in 2003 by the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome.
His work as a musicologist includes the writing of liner notes and program notes for a variety of CD companies and early music festivals, and the publication of critical facsimiles and editions. Already available (from Forni in Bologna) are the facsimiles of Domenico Gabrielli’s complete works for cello solo and with basso continuo (1998), Giuseppe Jacchini’s Opus 1 (2001), and Giovanni Battista degli Antonii’s Opus 1 (2006).