​Thursday, October 1​

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

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

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

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​Friday, October 2​

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

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

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

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

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10:30–11:15 am

​Coffee (Kulas 115)

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11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Interview/Conversation (Lindsay-Crossman Chapel)

Balint Karosi, organist

Ruben Valenzuela, moderator

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12:15–2 pm

Lunch (on your own)

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2–3:30 pm

Roundtable (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)

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3:30–4:00  pm
Coffee (Kulas 115)

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4–5:30 pm

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

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

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Noelle Heber, “Celebrating Bach in the German Classroom”

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5:30–7:30 pm
Dinner (on your own)

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

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​Saturday, October 3​

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8:30–9:00 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

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

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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)”

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

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

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10:30–11:00 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

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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) 

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12–1:30 pm
Lunch (on your own)

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1:30–3:00 pm
Panel Discussion (Fynes Hall)
Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174​

Panelists: Ellen Exner (Juilliard School), Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College, emeritus), Daniel R. Melamed (Bloomington Bach Cantata Project)

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3–3:30 pm
Coffee (Kulas 115)

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

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David Schulenberg, “Quantz and the Bach Circle”

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

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

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

The Cleveland-based early music group Les Délices presents a program of musical riddles, in which J.S. Bach’s intricate counterpoint and clever canons come to life through a rich palette of instrumental colors. This imaginative program balances excerpts from J. S. Bach’s ingenious Musical Offering with C.P.E. Bach’s expressive, melodic music.

 

​Sunday, October 4​

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8:30–9 am
Coffee (Kulas 115)

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

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

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