About Bach Network

Bach Network UK was founded in 2004 by John Butt, Reinhard Strohm and Ruth Tatlow to serve Bach studies worldwide. Gradually new trustees joined the board and as the work of BNUK developed we decided to change our leadership structure, so that in 2010 we had both a board of trustees and an Advisory Council, which in 2014 was renamed as the Bach Network Council. Our annual J. S. Bach Dialogue Meetings became a biennial event in 2009, alternating in even years with contributions to the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music. Our widely-read web journal Understanding Bach was first issued in 2006 and was published in twelve annual volumes until 2017. This was succeeded in 2020 by our multimedia publication Discussing Bach.

In July 2017 it was decided that we should drop the ‘UK’ from ‘Bach Network UK’ and adopt the all-inclusive name by which we had become increasingly known: Bach Network. Our logo and favicon were updated to reflect this change.

This website continues to be of vital importance to Bach Network as the platform for our publications, as a means of keeping the network growing through the signup, and as a reference point for our activities and meetings. On our open Facebook page you will find a variety of posts about Bach discoveries, new publications and announcements, and on our 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.

Bach Network Trustees

Peter Smaill, Treasurer, and Acting Chair of Trustees
Richard D. P. Jones
John Butt
Ruth Tatlow
Max Wong

Dialogue Meeting

Benton Froc, Dialogue Administrator