Meetings of the Society

Members and friends of the American Bach Society are invited to attend the Society's biennial meeting and conference, which takes place in even-numbered years.

"Bach and the Organ"
Presented in conjunction with the EROI 2012 Festival
Rochester, New York
September 27-30, 2012

The 2012 meeting will be held at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, in conjunction with the annual Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival. The topic of the conference, "Bach and the Organ," has been chosen because many of the concerts presented by EROI will feature the baroque organ--a reconstruction of an organ built by Adam Gottlob Casparini in 1776--that Eastman recently installed in nearby Christ Church. The joint program includes a keynote address by Peter Williams, fourteen papers, a panel discussion on two new editions of Bach's organ works, music history and organ performance masterclasses, and numerous concerts, including a reconstruction Thursday evening of Mendelssohn's 1840 Leipzig concert of Bach organ works by Eastman organ professors Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, and William Porter; a recital by Jacques van Oortmerssen Friday evening; a concert by the Boston Early Musical Festival Chamber Ensemble with organist Edoardo Bellotti featuring cantatas with obbligato organ by Bach and Stölzel Saturday evening; and Sunday afternoon recitals by Robert Bates of Bach's Clavierübung III and by Edoardo Bellotti on Eastman's Italian baroque organ..

Click here for a schedule of the meeting, paper abstracts, and registration information. For additional information, please see the EROI 2012 Festival website or contact ABS Vice-President Lynn Edwards Butler: edwardsbutler (AT) telus.net.

Previous Meetings:

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, May 7-9, 2010 • Abstracts
Bethlehem, PA, May 8-11, 2008
Leipzig, Germany, May 11-13, 2006 • Abstracts
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 16-18, 2004 • Abstracts
University of Houston/Rice University, Houston, TX, 2002 • Abstracts
Smithsonian Institution/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2000
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1998
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1996
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1994
Columbia University, New York, NY, 1992
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH, 1990
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1988
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1982
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1979
Bethlehem, PA, 1976