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Celebrating Bach

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2026 ABS Biennial Meeting and Conference
1–4 October 2026
Riemenschneider Bach Institute at
Baldwin Wallace University — Berea, Ohio

 

Overview | Program | Abstracts | Registration & Accommodations 

Conference Program

​Thursday, October 1

2-5 pm
Advisory Board meeting (Riemenschneider Bach Institute)

6–8 pm
Reception and Conference Registration (Durst Welcome Center)

Welcoming Remarks – Baldwin Wallace University President, Conservatory Dean, ABS President

​Friday, October 2

8:30–9 am
Coffee and Conference Registration (Kulas 115)

9–10:30 am
Paper Session 1– Derek Stauff, chair (Fynes Hall)

Luke Dahn, “Notational Implications from the Fasch Chorale Manuscript”

Stephen Crist, “William H. Scheide, the Bach Aria Group, and Music Advocacy since World War II”

10:30–11 am

Coffee (Kulas 115)

11 am - 12:30 pm

Roundtable 1 (Lindsay-Crossman Chapel)

Organ Performance – Ruben Valenzuela, moderator

12:30–2 pm

Lunch (on your own)

2–3:30 pm

Roundtable 2 (Fynes Hall)

Bach Festivals & Commemorations – Rebekah Franklin, moderator

Panelists: Chris Jackson (Bethlehem Bach Festival), Michael Maul (Leipzig Bachfest), David Chin (Bachest Malaysia), Dirk Garner (BW Bach Festival)

3:30–4:00  pm
Coffee (Kulas 115)

4–5:30 pm

Paper Session 2 – Reginald Sanders, chair (Fynes Hall)

Kailan Rubinoff, “Performing Bach Diverse: QueerPassion, Pride and Community-Building at the 2025 Bachfest Leipzig”

Noelle Heber, “Celebrating Bach in the German Classroom”

5:30–7:30 pm
Dinner (on your own)

7:30 pm
Recital – Balint Karosi, organist (United Methodist Church of Berea)

​Saturday, October 3

8:30–9:00 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

9–10:30 am
Paper Session 3 – Danielle Kuntz, chair (Fynes Hall)

Joevan Caitano, “Beyond the Concert Hall: The Legacy of the Sociedade Bach de São Paulo and the Making of a Brazilian Bach Culture (1935–1977)”

Ricardo de la Torre, “Pastiche, Counterfeit, Homage: Manuel Ponce and the Reception of Bach in the Spanish-speaking World in the 20th Century”

9–10:30 am (concurrent)
Masterclass – Balint Karosi (United Methodist Church of Berea)

10:30–11:00 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

11 am–12 pm
Keynote Address (Fynes Hall) – Bettina Varwig, Professor of Music History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. Author of Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology (Chicago, 2023), and editor of Rethinking Bach (Oxford, 2021) 

12–1:30 pm
Lunch (on your own)

1:30–3:00 pm
Roundtable 3 (Fynes Hall)

Ich liebe den Höchsten BWV 174 – Daniel R. Melamed, moderator.

Panelists: Ellen Exner (Juilliard School), Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College, emeritus), Ruben Valenzuela (Bach Collegium San Diego)

3–3:30 pm
Coffee (Kulas 115)

3:30–4:15 pm
Paper Session 4 – Matthew Dirst, chair (Fynes Hall)

David Schulenberg, “Quantz and the Bach Circle”

4:15–5:45 pm
Riemenschneider Bach Institute Open House and Display

5:45–7:15 pm
Dinner and ABS Biennial Meeting (Fynette Kulas Hall)

7:30 pm
Concert – Les Délices (Fanny Nast Gamble Auditorium)

 

​Sunday, October 4

8:30–9 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

9–11:15 am
Paper Session 5 – Paul Walker, chair (Fynes Hall)

Christopher Doll, “Foursquare Gambits Across Bach's Catalog”

Marcelo Rebuffi, “Singular Episodes: H(a)unting hidden voices in J. S. Bach's Solo Violin Fugues”

 

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