In collaboration with education partners such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and New York Baroque Dance Company, and Ifshin Violins, the Festival also hosts public Workshops on topics related to Bach’s music. Annually around the time of Bach’s birthday, March 21, the Festival hosts concerts featuring some of the finest young musical talent, selected by audition. The Junior Bach Festival Association is a 67-year-old Bay Area cultural institution that is dedicated to touching young lives by promoting the study and performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. Wolff was interviewed about Bach’s The Art of Fugue in the documentary film Desert Fugue. Norton, 2020). He wrote the liner notes for Academy of Ancient Music’s recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites in 2013.

Some of his awards include the IRC Harrison Medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland in (2004), the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize (2006), and the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society in 2000.Wolff’s books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (Cambridge, 1991), The New Bach Reader (New York, 1998), Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001), and Bach’s Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work (W.W. Wolff is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Académie für Mozart-Forschung (Chair, 1996–2006) and a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts. He taught music history at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School (2010–2018). An emeritus professor of Harvard University (1976-2014) and former Director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig (2001 to 2014). NICHOLAS McGEGAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATEĬHRISTOPH WOLFF, Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityĬhristoph Wolff is a leading expert on JS Bach’s music and life.VALÉRIE SAINTE-AGATHE, CHORALE DIRECTOR.*NEW!* Coffee & Cake: Bach’s Brandenburgs.

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