Russell Stinson, professor of music and college organist at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, has been appointed Gerhard Herz Visiting Professor of Bach Studies at the University of Louisville for the fall 2015 semester. Stinson will teach a graduate seminar (Case Studies in Bach Reception), play two organ recitals (one to be titled “A Bach Recital for Robert Schumann”), and give a public lecture (“Bach Goes to Hollywood: The Use of His Music in Motion Pictures”).
Among Stinson’s many publications on the music of Bach are five books and, most recently, the Notes to the Oxford Bach Books for Organ, a five-volume, graded edition of Bach’s organ works edited by Anne Marsden Thomas and published last year by Oxford University Press. Stinson held the same post in Louisville during the fall 2009 semester.
