![]() ![]() Through his worldwide network of Bach Academies, Rilling offers workshops for students across the globe. As part of a project of the Bach Academy Stuttgart, from 2001 -2009 he worked with the Festivalensemble Stuttgart, which led to the foundation of the Young Stuttgart Bach-Ensemble in 2011. Working with young musicians from around the globe has always been a central focus of Rilling’s work. Bach’s music and in the course of time grew into an exceptional institution that excels not only in its ensembles (Gaechinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart) but devotes considerable resources to education and outreach through master classes, symposia and children’s programmes. In 1981, he established the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, which initially focused on the promotion of J.S. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Oregon Bach Festival, which since its inception in 1970 has become one of America’s most prestigious music festivals. Over the last 30 years a special friendship has developed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom Professor Rilling has performed in more than 100 concerts. Maestro Rilling has collaborated with the world’s first-class orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic or Japanese NHK-Symphony Orchestra. He has toured across Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia and South America, either as guest conductor or with his own ensembles. Rilling has both fervently advocated neglected choral music of the Romantic period and promoted contemporary music by regularly commissioning and performing pieces by key composers of our time. It was at this time that Professor Rilling began his intensive work with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1954, he founded the internationally recognized Gächinger Kantorei choir, which joined forces with the Bach Collegium Stuttgart as its regular orchestral partner eleven years later. Helmuth Rilling, born in 1933 in Stuttgart, is acclaimed worldwide as a conductor, pedagogue and Bach scholar. It should startle people and reach deep down inside them, forcing them to reflect.« »Music should never be merely comfortable, never fossilized, never soothing. ![]()
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