Montreal Bach Festival Prelude

Symposium

Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
4750, avenue Henri Julien
$ 25 / Students $ 15
Coffee and Lunch included
pre-registration required. For online registration click here or call 514 843 3414

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Bach's Saint Matthew Passion: a musicaltheological depiction of 'godforsakenness'

Don Franklin, Ph.D., Professor of Music, Historical
Musicology, Pittsburgh University (Chair)
Martin Petzoldt, Dr. Theol. Habil., Professor of
Theology, University of Leipzig, Chair of Neue Bach
Gesellschaft Leipzig
Ulrich Meyer, Dr. Theol., theologian and
musicologist, Hannover

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Master class

Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Evangelist of the performance of the Saint Matthew
Passion, Montreal Bach Festival 2009

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Round table discussion: The interpretation and performance of Bach's setting of the biblical narratives in the Saint Matthew Passion

Moderator: Kelly Rice (CBC)
Participants:
Don Franklin
Christopher Jackson
Martin Petzoldt
Christoph Prégardien