Marc Vanscheeuwijck

Marc Vanscheeuwijck is a baroque cellist, doctor of musicology and emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Oregon in the USA, where he taught courses in music history from the Renaissance to Classicism, performance practice and baroque cello. He also coordinated the "Collegium Musicum" ensemble, specialized in Early Music. As a teacher and invited professor, he offers master classes and seminars about the 17th- and 18th-century music and Performance Practice at numerous conservatories, such as those in Brussels, Ghent, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Leipzig, Prague and Brno, and at the universities of California (Davis), McGill (Montreal), Alcalá de Henares, Évora and Zagreb, as well as museums (Bologna).

His researchs include late 17th-century music in Bologna and Emilia, as well as the history and repertories of violin basses and cello. He has published numerous articles in "Performance Practice Review", "Early Music" and elsewhere. He also published critical facsimiles of 17th-century Bolognese cello music (Gabrielli, Jacchini, Degli Antoni). His first book is entitled "The Cappella Musicale of San Petronio in Bologna under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674-1695): History-Organization-Repertoire"  and was published in 2003 by the "Institut Belge d'Histoire" in Rome. He co-edited a volume of studies on Corelli with Guido Olivieri, entitled "Arcomelo 2013 (Lucca: LIM, 2015)". In 2016, he released a book containing 5 compact discs with Bruno Cocset and les Basses Réunies : "Cello Stories: the Cello in the 17th and 18th centuries".  In 2020 he published a volume of essays about "I Bononcini da Modena all'Europa (1666-1747)".

As a baroque cellist, he performs regularly with ensembles in Europe and North America, and has recorded numerous CDs for the Tactus, Passacaille, Ramée, Bongiovanni, Klara, Querstand, Ars Eloquens, CPO and other labels.