Bach Festivals & Cantata Series
Bach Network: J.S. Bach Dialogue Meetings

Name:

Bach Network: J.S. Bach Dialogue Meetings (since July 2017)
Previously: Bach Network UK: J.S. Bach Dialogue Meetings

Location:

Various locations in the UK

Venues:

2005: Trapp Room, Wadham College, Oxford
2006: Oxford University, Faculty of Music and St Anne's College, Oxford, England
2007: School of Music & Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
2008: Oxford University, Faculty of Music and Merton College, Oxford, England
2009: Oxford University, Faculty of Music and Merton College, Oxford, England
2010: Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
2011: Loretto School, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013: University of Warsaw, Poland
2015, 2017, 2019: Madingley Hall, Cambridge

Years:

Since 2004 (Biennial Dialogue Meetings)

Months:

Not fixed

Artistic Director:

Ruth Tatlow

Leadership structure:

The Bach Network Council has twelve members, some of whom are also trustees of the Bach Network charitable trust.
John Butt (Trustee)
Richard D. P. Jones (Trustee)
Michael Maul
Szymon Paczkowski
Barbara M. Reul
Stephen Roe (Trustee, Chair of Trustees November 2017–)
Stephen Rose
Peter Smaill (Trustee, former Chair of Trustees 2010–October 2017)
Ruth Tatlow (Trustee, Council Chair 2010–)
Yo Tomita
Bettina Varwig

Website:

Bavj Network UK
Understanding Bach 6 (2011)

History & Mission:

In July 2017 it was decided that they should drop the ‘UK’ from ‘Bach Network UK’ and adopt the all-inclusive name by which they have become increasingly known: Bach Network. This change is reflected in theitr adapted logo and favicon.
Bach Network UK was founded in 2004 by John Butt, Reinhard Strohm and Ruth Tatlow to serve J.S. Bach studies worldwide. Gradually new trustees joined the board and as the work of BNUK developed they decided to change their leadership structure, so that in 2010 they had both a board of trustees, Chaired by Peter Smaill, and an Advisory Council, which in 2014 was renamed as the Bach Network Council (see below). Their annual J.S. Bach Dialogue Meetings became a biennial event in 2009, alternating in even years with a visible presence at the biennial International Conferences on Baroque Music (ICBM) where they sponsor and present several sessions. Their widely-read web journal Understanding Bach was first issued in 2006 and was published for twelve annual volumes until 2017.
Bach Network's website continues to be of vital importance to Bach Network UK as the platform for Understanding Bach, as a means of keeping the network alive and growing through the signup, and as a reference point for their activities and meetings. Through the signup you will receive notifications of their activities three times each year. On their open Facebook page you will find a variety of posts ranging from J.S. Bach discoveries, new publications and announcements, and on their YouTube channel you will find an increasing number of videos.
Bach Network is a registered charity, number 1042036, dependent upon external funding, and welcomes donations to support costs of the continued work.
Trustee and Council members can be contacted directly through their personal addresses, or reached through info@bachnetwork.org

Recent Festivals:

Dialogue Meetings

Other Events

1^st J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Oct 12-13, 2005 (Oxford)
2^nd J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Dec 9-10, 2006 (Oxford)
3^rd J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Jan 5-6, 2008 (Oxford)
4^th J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Jan 3-4, 2009 (Oxford)
5^th J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Aug 12-14, 2011 (Edinburgh)
6^th J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Jul 3-7, 2013 (Warsaw)
7^th J.S. Bach Dialogue Meeting: Jul 8-10, 2015 (Cambridge)
8^th Dialogue Meeting: Jul 10-15, 2017 (Cambridge)
9^th Dialogue Meeting: Jul 8-13, 2019 (Cambridge)

Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass: Nov 2-4, 2007 (Belfast)
Bach research in the context of the 14^th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music: Jun 30-Jul 4, 2010 (Belfast)
Several sessions at the 15^th Biennial International Baroque Conference, Jul 11-15, 2012 (Southampton)
4 sessions at the 16^th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (ICBM): Jul 9-13, 2014

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