The biennial conference of the American Handel Society will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 6–9, 2025. The conference will include academic panels, the Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Ayana Smith (Associate Professor of Music at Indiana University Bloomington), and performances by Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Early Music Festival.
February 24-26, 2023
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington
April 6-9, 2017
Princeton University
April 23-26, 2015
Iowa City
| Year | Speaker | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nathan Link | Narrative and Drama in Handel's Operas | Bloomington, IN – Indiana University |
| 2021 | Berta Joncus | Posterity vs Celebrity: Handel Studies and the 21st Century | Virtual Conference – Hosted by Indiana University |
| 2019 | Ellen Rosand | Handel's 'Music' | Bloomington, IN – Indiana University |
| 2017 | John Butt | Handel and Messiah: Harmonizing the Bible for a Modern World? | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2015 | Nicholas McGegan | Handel in My Lifetime | Iowa City, IA – University of Iowa |
| 2013 | Reinhard Strohm | Handel: Opera and Ritual | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2011 | David Hurley | Once More with Feeling: Da Capo Patterns in Handel's Oratorios | Seattle, WA |
| 2009 | Robert Ketterer | London as Athens: Teseo and Arianna in Creta | Danville, KY - Centre College |
| 2007 | Andrew Porter | How Handel's Operas Entered the Modern Repertory | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2005 | Graydon Beeks | Private Patronage of Church Music in the Reign of George I | Santa Fe, NM |
| 2003 | Terence Best | Handel Editions | Iowa City, IA – University of Iowa |
| 2001 | Nicholas Temperley | 'In Virtue's Cause': How Handel's Music was Sanctified | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 2000 | Ruth Smith | Fifteen Ways to Skin an Oratorio, of Understanding Theodora | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1998 | Anthony Hicks | Handel's Jephtha: A Sacridice to Theology? | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1996 | Donald Burrows | M. Handel's Friends: Contemporary Accounts of the Composer from the papers of James T. | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1994 | Winton Dean | Handel's Operas in the Theatre | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1992 | John Roberts | The Song for St Cecilia's Day and Handel's 'Borrowing' from other Composers | College Park, MD - University of Maryland |
| 1991 | Paul Brainard | Bach and Handel: Another Look | Washington, D.C. – George Washington University |
| 1990 | Don E. Saliers | Words and The Word: Sounding the Text of Handel's Messiah | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1989 | Bernd Baselt | The War of Spanish Succession, Italy, and Handel | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1988 | Ellen T. Harris | Integrity and Improvisation in the Music of Handel | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1987 | Jens Peter Larsen | The Turning Point in Handel's Oratorio Tradition | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
The American Bach Society, American Handel Society, Haydn Society of North America, Mozart Society of America, and Society for Eighteenth-Century Music sponsor a series of virtual presentations and conversations.
CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE AT THE HANDEL FESTIVAL
June 10-11, 2025 | Halle (Saale)
Handel’s Italian Texts and His Poets / Free Papers
The Handel Festival 2025 in Halle an der Saale will take place under the motto "Fresh Wind. The young Handel in Italy." The International Scholarly Conference, held within the framework of the Festival, takes this as its cue to investigate the Italian texts set by Han (including those of his later career) and his contacts with Italian literature and poets. In a public round table chaired by Prof. em. Reinhard Strohm (Oxford), questions concerning the critical edition, translation and digitization of Handel’s Italian texts will be investigated and discussed.
We would welcome further contributions on these subjects, and on Handel’s trips to Italy as well as on the poets and translators with whom he collaborated, also beyond the Italian-language repertory. The conference should also include contributions on other eighteenth-century composers and their librettos and librettists. Finally, there will be scope for free papers, which would present new and recent results from Handel research to a public interested in scholarship.
The organisers invite researchers interested in these subjects to participate in the conference with a 25-minute paper and ask for applications with a subject proposal and an abstract by 31 October 2024. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for the conference days (9/10, 10/11, 11/12 June).
Organizers: Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e.V., Internationale Vereinigung; Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Musik, Medien-und Sprechwissenschaften, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft; Stiftung Händel-Haus Halle.
Dr. Annette Landgraf, landgraf@musik.uni-halle.de
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann, mailto:wolfgang.hirschmann@musik.uni-halle.de
Ulrike Harnisch, gesellschaft@haendel.de