Evan Kreider: Reformation

In honour of the 500 year anniversary of the Reformation, Dr. Kreider will be considering Martin Luther’s hymn A Mighty Fortress is Our God, and its significance to the Protestant Reformation.

Dr. J. Evan Kreider (PhD, Indiana) is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of British Columbia (2007). As a musicologist and music historian, J. Evan Krieder began teaching at the UBC School of Music in 1975. His research encompassed studies of Renaissance chant, early music notation, liturgical music, and the editing of Renaissance and Baroque keyboard music. Other projects included a critical edition of the secular works of Pierre de la Rue (d. 1518) and the investigation of politics and theology in music attributed to Martin Luther. He is co-editor of La Rue’s Opera Omnia, and has published in the Corpus of Early Keyboard Music, Musica disciplina, Notes, Renaissance and Reformation, and elsewhere.

For more information on Dr. Kreider, please visit his bio page here.