Joshua Rifkin
Fellow of the University Professors and
Professor of Music
B.S., The Julliard School; M.F.A., Princeton University
Professor Rifkin has appeared as conductor and keyboard soloist with many
prominent orchestras in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Australia, and Japan,
including the English Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis
Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Victorian State Symphony, and Israel
Camerata Jerusalem, and has led operatic productions at Theater Basel in
Switzerland and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. With the Bach Ensemble,
which he founded in 1978, he has recorded the Mass in B minor, the
Magnificat, and many cantatas; held an annual summer academy for early music
at Brixen/Bressanone, Italy, from 1992 to 1997; and performed in concerts
and festivals throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Professor Rifkin
has published studies on musical subjects ranging from Busnoys to the
Beatles, with special emphasis on J. S. Bach and Josquin des Prez, and given
seminars and master classes at numerous institutions of higher learning,
including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, New York University, Ohio State
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, King's College London and the universities of Basel,
Dortmund, and Munich; his
critical edition of Bach's Mass in B Minor, published by Breitkopf & Härtel,
appeared in November 2006. In 1999, the University of Dortmund awarded him
an honorary doctorate for his contributions to Bach interpretation.
Office Hours: TBA
Telephone: 617-353-2391
Email: jrifkin@bu.edu
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