TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
Guest Speakers
As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, John Butt held
the office of organ scholar at King's College. Continuing as a graduate
student, he studied the music of Bach, surveying articulation markings
in autograph manuscripts and receiving his PhD in 1987. He was subsequently
a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of Magdalene College
Cambridge, joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1989 as University Organist
and Assistant Professor in Music (Associate Professor in 1992). In Autumn
1997 he returned to Cambridge as a university lecturer and fellow of King's
College.
Three books have recently been published by Cambridge
University Press: his study of articulation, Bach Interpretation,
a handbook on Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Music Education
and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (1994). He is also
editor of the Cambridge Companion to Bach (1997), consultant editor
to the Oxford Companion to Bach (1999) and is currently working
on a study of the philosophy and criticism of historical performance practice.
John Butt has continued to be active as a performer, directing
several choirs in Cambridge and Berkeley and appearing as a solo organist,
harpsichordist and director in Britain and the United States. Seven recordings
on organ, harpsichord and clavichord have been released by Harmonia Mundi
(Pachelbel, Cabanilles, Bach, Purcell, Kuhnau and Frescobaldi). His recording
of the Telemann harpsichord Fantasies is to be released in September. He
has also recorded (with violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock) Bach's sonatas
for violin and obbligato harpsichord. As director of the UC Berkeley Chamber
Chorus 1991-7, and the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, he has participated
in many concerts and recordings with the Philharmonia Baroque orchestra
and its director, Nicholas McGegan. He has been guest conductor and a regular
soloist for the Philharmonia Baroque orchestra. He has also been guest
conductor in the Göttingen Handel Festspiele and directed a newly
discovered Scarlatti opera at the 1996 Berkeley Festival. Since returning
to King's College, Cambridge he has founded the new mixed choir "King's
Voices". In 1998 he performed throughout the UK and the USA, including
Handel organ concertos with St Paul's Chamber Orchestra of Minnesota, and
in 1999 appears at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Professor of sacred music. Theol.Dip., Trinity College, Bristol,
England; D.theol. cum laude Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands.
Studied with A. Casper Honders. Recipient, Winston Churchill Fellowship
(1971); honorary member of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (1973); first
recipient of the Dominick A. Iorio Faculty Research Prize, Rider University
(1997). President of the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie
(1985-89); board of directors, Charles Wesley Society (1989-). Member of
Scholarly Advisory Committee for the Kessler Reformation Collection, Pitts
Theology Library, Emory University (1995-). Author of more than 25 books,
including Bachs theologische Bibliothek (1983), J.S. Bach and
Scripture (1985), The Theological Character of Music in Worship
(1989),
"Goostly
psalmes and spirituall songes": English and Dutch Metrical Psalters from
Coverdale to Utenhove 1535-1566 (1991), Come to the Feast: The Original
and Translated Hymns of Martin H. Franzman (1994) and (with Joyce Ann
Zimmerman) Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning (1998). Contributor
to many reference and other books, including The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (1980), The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music (1986), and The Hymnal 1982 Companion (1990-95). Author
of more than 200 articles and reviews in journals issued in England, Germany,
the Netherlands, Africa, Korea, Japan, as well as the United States, including
American Organist, Bach-Jahrbuch,
Choral Review, MLA
Notes, Musik und Kirche, Reformed Liturgy and Music,
Worship. Editor of the series Studies in Liturgical Musicology;
co-editor of the series Drew Liturgical Studies; contributing editor
to Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie (1976-), The Hymnology
Annual (1989-) and editorial consultant for liturgy and church music
for the forthcoming new edition of Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Active participant in symposia in Europe and North America, including Helmut
Rilling's Bach-Akademie, Stuttgart, Herzog August bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel,
The Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Amsterdam. Author of program/liner notes and/or pre-concert lecturer for
the Taverner Choir and Players, London; the Early Music Centre, London;
the English Bach Festival, London; The Gabrieli Consort, England; The Bach
Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; The Berkeley Festival, California; etc.,
for such conductors as Flummerfelt, Funfgeld, Leonhardt, McCreesh, Parrott,
Shaw, and others. Experienced in pastoral and church music ministries.
Consultant to the British Broadcasting Corporation, London; Oxford University
Press; and to the editorial committees that produced the Episcopal Hymnal
1982 (1985), The United Methodist Hymnal (1989), Evangelisches
Gesangbuch (1993) and the Moravian Book of Worship (1995). Listed
in Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of International Biography,
Who's Who in the World. Faculty, Latimer House, Oxford, England
(1977-84); Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England (1984-85); Visiting professor
of liturgy, Drew University (1988-); Westminster (1984-).
Hans-Joachim Schulze [abstract]
Hans-Joachim Schulze was born in Leipzig in 1934. Between
1952 and 1957 he studied at the Musikhochschule and the University of Leipzig,
specializing in Musicology and German language and literature. Among his
teachers were Heinrich Besseler, Rudolf Eller, Paul Rubardt, Walter Serauky
and Helmuth Christian Wolff. In 1957 he became assistant at the Bach-Archiv
in Leipzig and from 1974-79 acting director. In 1979 he was a contributor
to the "Nationalen Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten 'Johann Sebastian
Bach' der DDR. In 1986 he became director of the regional Bach-Archiv and
since 1992 he is director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and project leader
of the New Bach edition. In 1979 he received his doctorate at the University
of Rostock with Studien zur Bach-überlieferung im 18. Jahrhundert.
In 1990 he was made honorary lecturer at the Martin Luther University of
Halle-Wittenberg and in 1993 was apponted honorary professor at the Hochschule
for Music and Theatre in Leipzig.
His publications include Bach-Dokumente I-III (1963-1972,
Vol. 1-2 with Werner Neumann); Bach Compendium 1-4 (1986-1989 with
Christoph Wolff) as well as numerous papers and commentaries to the facsimile
editions. He is also the editor of the Bach- Jahrbuch since 1975
with Christoph Wolff.
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