Mark Peters (PhD 2003) to speak at Yale Conference
Mark Peters (PhD 2003) will give a paper at the conference Poets, Mothers, and Performers — Considering Women’s Impact on the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Peters’ paper is titled “A Woman’s Poetry in Leipzig’s Churches: Mariane von Ziegler as Cantata Librettist.” The paper grows out of Peters’ ongoing research on J. S. Bach’s sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig Poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, research he published in his monograph A Woman’s Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach. The conference, which takes place October 16-18, is chaired by Prof. Markus Rathey (Yale) and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in collaboration with the Music Department and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale.
Mark Peters is Associate professor of Music at Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, IL) and Chair of the Department of Music. Mark has presented conference papers on Bach, Ziegler, and Johannes Brahms, and his publications include articles in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and the monograph “Claude Debussy As I Knew Him” and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann (University of Rochester Press, 2003), with Samuel Hsu and Sidney Grolnic. He serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bach Society and is currently pursuing new research on the German Magnificat from Martin Luther to J. S. Bach.