Career Outline
Awards & Honors: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit. Award by the President of Federal Republic of Germany, April 18, 2002, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany, 1979, Medal of Honor, Universidad Nacional Menendez Pelayo, Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander, Spain, August 8, 2001, Philips Classics Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century, 1999, 2000. National Endowment for the Humanities grantee. Phi Beta Award, 1946, 1st Town Hall Endowment Award, 1937; First prize Schubert Memorial Contest. 1935, First Prize National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, 1935; 1st prize Greater Chicago Piano Playing Tournament, 1928.
Honorary Member - Fellow, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Sebastian Bach de Belgique, Royal Philharmonic Society London.
Member- American Musicological Society, Inc., Royal Musical Association London, Society of Musicians (London); Musician of the Year 1987, Music Teachers Association.
Honorary Mus. D.: Oxford University, England, 1977 (fourth American woman so honored), Medal of Honor, Universidad Nacional Menendez Pelayo Santander, Spain, 2001; Music and Arts Institute, San Francisco, 1987, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, 1968, Wilson College, 1968, Colby College, 1964.
Professorships and lecturer: Faculty member - Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, 1935-42, Mannes School of Music, 1940-4, Juilliard School of Music, 1943-55, Columbia University, 1953-5, University of California, San Diego, 1966-72; Visiting Professor - Washington University, 1963-4, Life Fellow - St Hilda's College, Oxford University, 1975; Visiting Fellow - Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1978, University of Maryland, 1981-5; Yale University, 1991-3, Regents Lecturer-University of California, 1995, Lecturer - Boston University, 1993-4, Smithsonian institution, 1994, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995, Hebrew University, Israel, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 1993-4, University of Southhampton, Oxford University, 1993, 10th international Congress of Logic. Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy, 1995, various educational institutions U.S, England, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Chile; Annual Master Classes - Oxford University, 1955- , Institute for Advanced Musical Studies, Oxford, 1997--.
Author: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach, A progressive anthology of keyboard music edited, with introductory essays Oxford University Press, 1959 (U.K & Europe), 1960 (USA), t966 (translations; Japanese, Spanish), 2002 (translations: Chinese), Authenticity, Boston University Press, 1994, Cells, Functions, Relationships in Musical Structure and Performance, Proceedings of the Royal institution of Great Britain, August 1996, Oxford Science Press, 1996, Cells, Functions, Relationships in Musical Structure and Performance (revised and enlarged) interaction. Vol. 1, 1997, J.S. Bach and Number - Symmetries and Other Relationships, Musical Authenticity: Is it a Legitimate Offspring of Janus?, Interaction, Vol. 2. 1998.
Editor: Creator and editor of journal Interaction. Proceedings of the Symposia of the Tureck Bach Research Foundation, Oxford, U.K. Volume I, April, 1997, Volume 2, December 1998; Tureck Bach Urtext Series: Italian Concerto, 1983, 2nd. ed, 1991, Lute Suite in E Minor, 1984, Lute Suite in C Minor, 1985, Schirmer Music, Inc Paganini-Tureck: Moto Perpetuo, A. Scarlatti; Air and Gavotte, Carl Fischer Music, Bach; Sarabande in C minor 1960, Oxford University Press.
Founder/Director: Composers of Today, 1949-53, Society
for Contemporary Music, Founder, Dir. Tureck Bach Players, London,
1957, New York, 1981; Bach Festivals - London, Glyndebourne, Wales,
Ireland, Spain 1959- Carnegie Hall, New York, 1975- ; International
Bach Society, Institute for Bach Studies, New York, 1968.
Tureck Bach Institute. Inc., Musicological Research and Performance
on Period and Contemporary Instruments 1981 (Annual Symposia 1968-),
Tureck Bach Research Foundation, Musicology, Performance, the
Sciences, Oxford, 1994 (First Annual Symposium - Structure; Principles,
and Applications in the Sciences and Music, 15-17 Dec. 1995, Second
Annual Symposium - Structure, the Notion of Authenticity, 19-21
April 1997; Third Annual Symposium - The Concept of Concept, 9-10
May 1998); Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, Oxford, 1997 Spain
1999-; Tureck Bach Research Institute, Inc., New York, 2001-
Who's Whos: Who's Who. Who's Who in America, International Who's Who in Music, World Who's Who of Women, Wire's Who in World Jewry, Who's Who in Society, Who's Who in Entertainment, international Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, American Publishing Wire's Who, American Keyboard Artists, International Authors and Writers, Writer's Directory, Dictionaries, New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Baker's Biographical Dictionary.
Recordings: Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, HMV (Odeon), Columbia Masterworks, Sony, Allegro, Everest, VAI (see attached discography For available recordings).
Television: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Series), Granada Television, England, 1961, Well 'Tempered Clavier, Books 1&2 (Series), BBC, Firing Line. PBS Television, US., 1970, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, Camera Three. Today Show, CBS Television, U.S., Rome Telecom, 1996, 1997. Numerous appearances since 1960 in U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Russia.
Films: Rosalyn Tureck Plays Bach, ‘Fantasy and Fugue’ CBS, 1972; Rosalyn Tureck Plays on Harpsichord and Organ, 1977, ‘Joy of Bach’ Rosalyn Tureck performs on piano, harpsichord and clavichord at Temple Church, London, Bach on the Frontier of the future, performances on the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, moog. Camera Three (CBS), 1975: Tureck in Ephesus Turkey. CBS, 1985.
Videos: Live recitals: Mixed program, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Video Artists International, 1992. Live recitals St. Petersburg, Russia, All Bach: Goldberg Variations, 1997; St. Petersburg, Russia. Tureck on Television, Harpsichord and Piano, VAI, February, 1999.
PERFORMANCE: RECITAL, CONCERTO, SOLOIST, CONDUCTOR
Debuts: U.S. - Chicago (age 9), solo recital, 1926; Ravinia
Park, soloist, Chicago, 1926; Chicago, 2 all - Bach recitals, 1930,
Carnegie Hall, Theremin recital. New York, 1932: Official Carnegie
Hall debut with Philadelphia Orchestra, 1936; 6 all-Bach Recitals,
Town Hall, New York, 1937 (continued annually).
Europe: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, London (BBC), 1949,
London , 1953
Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, India, 1966
South America: 1986
Concert Tours: Extensive annual international tours since 1947, recitals, orchestral performances as soloist and conductor, master classes, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, England, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Far East- Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Israel, Turkey, U.S., Denmark, France, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, South Africa.
Conductor/Soloist: Philharmonia Orchestra, London, 1959- , New York Philharmonic, 1960, Tureck Bach Players, London 1960-72, San Antonio Symphony, 1962; Scottish National Orchestra, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 1963, Israel Philharmonic, Tel Aviv, Haifa, 1963; Kol Israel Orchestra, Jerusalem, 1963, Tureck Bach Players, Glyndebourne, 1967- ; Tureck Bach Players, New York (Carnegie Hall), 1967-, Kansas City Philharmonic, 1968, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C., Annapolis, New York, 1970, Madrid Festival Symphony Orchestra, 1970, Tureck Bach Players, Israel Festival, 1967, 1969, 1970-86; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 1981; Rome Telecom Orchestra, 1996-97.
Annual Bach Series: New York, 1937-54, 1959- , London, 1953- ; Copenhagen, 1956- ; Pasadena, California Institute of Technology, 1938-, Montreal, 1945-53, London (Tureck Bach Players) 1960-72, New York (Carnegie Hall) 1970-, other capitol cities, U.S.A. and Europe.
Festivals: All-Bach Programs, solo recitals and as conductor of Tureck Bach Players (see above)