Donald Meineke has been appointed artistic director of the Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York City. Meineke is the fourth director in the 47-year history of the Vespers. He succeeds Rick Erickson, who held the post for 22 years.
Meineke was founder and director of Vox Triniti, a professional early music ensemble in Worcester, Massachusetts, co-founder of Ensemble VIII in Austin, Texas, and is co-director of Early Music Festival: NYC. He holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
His inaugural season with Bach Vespers includes programming of 28 presentations of cantatas, including two North American premieres of works by lesser-known composers Johann Rosenmüller (c. 1617–1684) and Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729).
