Jan Bach [SEP] educated at
at Urbana-Champaign and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition there in 1971. He also studied with Aaron Copland and Roberto Gerhard at Tanglewood in 1961 and with Thea Musgrave in Aldeburgh and London in 1974.
Awards.
In 1957 he won the BMI Student Composers first prize. He later won the Koussevitsky competition at Tanglewood, the Harvey Gaul Composition Contest, the Mannes College opera competition, the Sigma Alpha Iota choral composition award, first prize at the First International Brass Congress in Montreux, Switzerland, grants from
- Thames Festival: new pieces by Orlando Gough
- Sep - Christuskirche London: Bach Cantata
- Jul - Beethoven 9th Symphony with Forest Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jul - Christuskirche London: Bach Cantata
- Jun - Filming of "streets of London" arrangement by Peter Gritton for WDR German Television
- May - Christuskirche London: A cappella Concert
- Mar - Master class: Bach Cantata with Christoph Siebert
- Feb - St Matthew Passion with West-London Bach Consort
- Jan - Christuskirche London: Bach