Born in Belgium, Marc Vanscheeuwijck is a baroque cellist, Ph.D. in musicology and full professor of musicology at the University of Oregon in the United States since 1995, where he was head of the Department of Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Historical Performance Practice until 2019. He teaches courses in music history from the Renaissance to Classicism, Performance Practice, Baroque cello, and coordinates the Ensemble Collegium Musicum which specializes in early music. His research interests include late 17th century music in Bologna and Emilia and the history and repertoire of the violin and cello basses. eHe has published numerous articles in Performance Practice Review, Early Music and elsewhere, as well as several critical facsimiles of Bolognese 17th century cello music (Gabrielli, Jacchini, Degli Antonii). His first 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 Institute
of History in Rome and recently he co-edited a volume of studies on Corelli, entitled Arcomelo 2013 (Lucca: LIM, 2015). In 2016 he released a book with 5 compact discs with Bruno Cocset and the Basses Réunies, Cello Stories. The Cello in the 17th and 18th Centuries for Outhere (Alpha 890) in Paris.
As a teacher and visiting professor, he offers master classes and seminars on seventeenth and eighteenth century music and performance at numerous conservatories, including Brussels, Ghent, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Leipzig, Prague, Brno, and at the Universities of California (Davis), McGill (Montreal)
Alcalá de Henares, Évora, Zagreb, as well as at museums (Bologna). 
As a cellist he collaborates with several baroque music ensembles, including the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio (Bologna), More Maiorum and Les Muffatti (Belgium), Collegium Marianum (Prague) and the American ensembles Oregon Baroque Ensemble (Eugene), Arcangeli Baroque Strings (Berkeley) and the New York State Baroque (Ithaca, NY).