Every year during the Bach Festival, the Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig awards the Bach Medal in recognition of efforts to promote the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The medal jury consists of the musical director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the headmaster of the University of Music & Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, the Cantor of St. Thomas, the president and the director of the Bach Archive.
In 2024, Andreas Staier received the award.
Awarding of the Bach Medal to Andreas Stainer (left: Torsten Bonnew, mayor for financial affairs, left: Prof. Dr. Peter Wollny, director of the Bach Archive Leipzig; photo: Bach-Archiv, Gert Mothes)
Up till now, the Bach Medal was awarded to
2003 Gustav Leonhardt †
2004 Helmuth Rilling
2005 Sir John Eliot Gardiner
2006 Ton Koopman
2007 Nikolaus Harnoncourt †
2008 Hermann Max
2009 Frieder Bernius
2010 Philippe Herreweghe
2011 Herbert Blomstedt
2012 Masaaki Suzuki
2013 Peter Schreier †
2014 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
2015 Peter Neumann
2016 Peter Kooij
2017 Reinhard Goebel
2018 Robert Levin
2019 Klaus Mertens
2020 Angela Hewitt
2021 Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schulze and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Christoph Wolff
2022 Sir András Schiff
2023 St. Thomas Boys’ Choir
2024 Andreas Staier
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