5TH ROSALYN TURECK INTERNATIONAL BACH
5TH ROSALYN TURECK INTERNATIONAL BACH
Rosalyn Tureck (1914-2003) was one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th Century. Her brilliant, dedicated performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach were informed by the depth of her insight. Although she performed Bach on a wide variety of keyboard instruments (clavichord, harpsichord, organ, and even the Moog Synthesizer), her trail-blazing performances of Bach on the piano were an inspiring influence on generations of pianists who followed.
Keyboard artist, teacher, conductor, scholar, author, and lecturer, Dr. Tureck founded the International Bach Society in New York City in 1966 and the Tureck Bach Institute in 1981 to promote research and performance of Bach’s music. In Oxford, England in 1993, she founded the Tureck Bach Research Foundation, from which she resigned in 2000. Upon her return to New York in 2001 she reconstituted the Tureck Bach Institute as the Tureck Bach Research Institute. Its purposes include making grants and awards for research and performance of the music of J. S. Bach, and promoting the publication of Dr. Tureck’s scholarly writings.
Dr. Tureck supported the establishment of the Tureck International Bach Competition for Pianists, directed by her former student Golda Vainberg-Tatz.
8th Competition to be held in NYC 2025
ROSALYN TURECK
(1914 - 2003)
"I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to all the organizers and participants of the Tureck International Bach Competition for Pianists. As we all know, Bach is the cornerstone of the classical music who greatly influenced every single composer after him up to this day. Fortunately for us, Bach left a vast legacy of piano music which has been an integral part of every young pianist's education --and at the same time, one of the greatest challenges for most professional pianists. I believe that this Competition is a wonderful undertaking and hope that it will exist for many years to come."
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Board of Directors
Golda Vainberg-Tatz, Chair, Artistic Director
Kati Gleiser, Assistant Director
Val Bukrinski
Dan Kahn
Catherine Schwartz
Thomas Hesse
Igor Kissin (In Memoriam)
Advisory Board
Bella Davidovich
Janina Fialkowska
Horacio Gutiérrez
Wu Han
Sharon Isbin
Andre Michel Schub
Jeffrey Swann
Rosalyn Tureck Through the Years
Evgeny Kissin
Our Sponsors
We are grateful to our sponsors, the Augustine Foundation, Maestro Evgeny Kissin, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at The Lincoln Center,
The Kern Foundation "Aspiration", Steinway and Sons, Studio UG, Commercial Art Creation Services, Classy Websites, for our Website Design, and The McGraw Hill Financial Young Artist program on WQXR for their generous support.
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Contact Us
For all inquiries regarding the competition repertoire, requirements or
other questions, please contact us at tureckbach@gmail.com
Tureck International Bach Competition
(212) 873-6087
P.O. Box 230851
New York, NY 10023 USA