I am managing the Website of Bach Cantatas Recordings Review and Mailing List, which was launched at the end of Year 2000. The site is a collective project, being compiled from various postings about Bach Cantatas, especially recordings of them, most of which have been sent to the Bach Cantatas Mailing List. 66 cantatas are already on this site, and it is updated regularly. The site is relatively popular among the sites in the Classical Music field, with about 3,000 entries in a period of 10 weeks. Since I launched the Bach Cantatas Website, I have constantly thought how this site could have been improved and what is missing to give a fuller picture of the world of recorded Bach Cantatas. Then I realized that actually most of the Bach Cantatas performers are almost unknown. I was looking all over the Web and found out that only very few of the performers have a Website or something like a biography available on the Web. I have even tried the New Edition of the Grove, and found out that many of those figures do not even have an entry in this respected encyclopaedia. Then I thought that the best idea would be building a repository of short biographies of all the important (and less important) performers (mainly Conductors and Singers) of the Bach Cantatas (and Bach's Other Vocal Works) in the Bach Cantatas Site. I have already started to build this section of the Site by myself. I wrote to the record companies, but very few of them have responded. Some other biographies were contributed by the members in the Bach Cantatas Mailing List. I collected most of the information about some other artists from linear notes in the booklets attached to the CD's. You can see the already available biographies in the relevant section of the Site (see address below). You have now the opportunity to contribute to this section of the Site. If you want to contribute a biography, please send it to my e-mail address, as plain text in the body of the message (and not as an attachment). Please mention the name of the Author and the exact source (and date, if available). Please, keep the biography concise (up to 500 words) and check the accuracy of the details. I shall do the editing (if necessary), converting to HTML and adding the relevant links. After that I shall put the biography in the Website. If you have any corrections and/or additions to the details of the biographies in this section of the Bach Cantatas Website, or suggestions for improvements, please send me a message. The relevant addresses: Bach Cantatas Recordings Review and Mailing List Archive: http://www.bach-cantatas.com Index to Short Biographies of Performers of the Bach Cantatas: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/IndexBiographies.htm My e-mail: [log in to unmask] I am looking forward for your active participation in creating this part of the Bach Cantatas Website. Enjoy, Aryeh Oron Bach and Jazz Music Fan