Bach Vocal Artists: Songs for the Soul
The Bach Vocal Artists conclude the 89th season by performing a selection of choral music that promises to feed the soul and the intellect through its sheer beauty and elegance. Truly…Songs for the Soul.
The Bach Vocal Artists conclude the 89th season by performing a selection of choral music that promises to feed the soul and the intellect through its sheer beauty and elegance. Truly…Songs for the Soul.
Composed in response to personal tragedy – the deaths of his three children – Dvorak’s powerful, emotional, and deeply moving Stabat Mater is among the most substantial of Stabat Mater settings. It is Dvorak’s choral music at its best.
Composed in response to personal tragedy – the deaths of his three children – Dvorak’s powerful, emotional, and deeply moving Stabat Mater is among the most substantial of Stabat Mater settings. It is Dvorak’s choral music at its best.
Formed in 2007 as a fun and exciting collaboration between musical friends, the members of the ten-piece, all-female brass ensemble tenThing have firmly established themselves on the international scene. They are celebrated for their commitment to performing a diverse repertoire that spans from Mozart to Weill, Grieg to Bernstein, and Lully to Bartok
Voices of Light features the legendary silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) paired with a musical score composed by Richard Einhorn, whose music is praised as "brilliantly effective" and "moving" by the New York Times. Past patrons have described this compelling program as “life changing.
Voices of Light features the legendary silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) paired with a musical score composed by Richard Einhorn, whose music is praised as "brilliantly effective" and "moving" by the New York Times. Past patrons have described this compelling program as “life changing.
The 89th Annual Bach Festival concludes with an exciting pairing of a choral masterwork with an orchestral masterpiece. Rossini’s Stabat Mater, his last large and important composition, features his operatic style with sacred text.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion was composed by David Lang, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, and influenced by Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Aesop’s Fables, by Richard Maltz, offers important life lessons while describing the “world of childhood.”
This program celebrates the genius of Bach and Handel. Delight in The Magnificat in D Major in all its choral and orchestral glory. This is Bach at his most joyous. Then savor his iconic Orchestral Suite No. 3.
A collection of Handel’s finest arias will be sung Orlando native and Rollins alumnus Brennan Hall. Brennan won first prize in the International Countertenor Vocal Competition at Havana’s Les Voix Humaines Festival in 2015 and has been praised for his “remarkably rich voice … and admirable musical intelligence.” (San Francisco Classical Voice)
The Concertos by Candlelight program is a perennial favorite of Bach Festival audiences. Guest artist Alon Goldstein, whose performances have been described as “lively, bursting with energy, yet also poetic,” (Der Westen, Bochum Germany) returns to Knowles Chapel perform Brahms’ incomparable Piano Concerto No. 1.
The husband-and-wife team of Routa Kroumovitch and Alvaro Gomez, violinists, are familiar to patrons as co-concert masters of the Bach Festival Orchestra. Performing as a duo around the world, Kroumovitch and Gomez bring artistry to a level that can only be achieved through years of collaborative music-making. They will perform the Concertante in A Major for Two Violins, Op. 48, Louis Spohr
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec collaborated with Pulitzer Prize - and GRAMMY Award-winning - lyricist Mark Campbell to create Sanctuary Road, which was nominated for a GRAMMY as Best New Choral Work in 2021. This poignant oratorio draws on the compelling stories in William Still’s memoir, The Underground Railroad.
The Symphony No. 1 in e minor by Florence Price was completed in 1932 and first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Price's first full-scale orchestral composition was the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec collaborated with Pulitzer Prize - and GRAMMY Award-winning - lyricist Mark Campbell to create Sanctuary Road, which was nominated for a GRAMMY as Best New Choral Work in 2021. This poignant oratorio draws on the compelling stories in William Still’s memoir, The Underground Railroad.
The Symphony No. 1 in e minor by Florence Price was completed in 1932 and first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Price's first full-scale orchestral composition was the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra.
This profound and moving program, thoughtfully chosen each season by artistic director John V. Sinclair, features an uninterrupted series of classical and contemporary music that encourages reflection and restoration.
Grandeur and ingenuity abound though five Baroque era composers’ interpretations of the Magnificat, a canticle of praise to Mary: Vivaldi, Telemann, Zelenka, Caldara and Heinecken. This program will feature the virtuosic ensemble, Bach Vocal Artists.
This Paris-based chamber ensemble invokes an expressive style that intertwines musicians and vocalists in an intimate performance. Fuoco Obbligato’s repertoire spans from the Baroque era cantatas to 20th century folk song.
Brakel, lauded by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the most talented organists in the world”, will play an all-Bach program on the Knowles Memorial Chapel Organ.
Renowned for its national broadcasts on PBS, A Classic Christmas is a beloved Central Florida tradition. The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra will be joined by the Bach Festival Children’s Choirs for this joyous celebration. Your subscription guarantees your seat.
Renowned for its national broadcasts on PBS, A Classic Christmas is a beloved Central Florida tradition. The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra will be joined by the Bach Festival Children’s Choirs for this joyous celebration. Your subscription guarantees your seat.
Renowned for its national broadcasts on PBS, A Classic Christmas is a beloved Central Florida tradition. The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra will be joined by the Bach Festival Children’s Choirs for this joyous celebration. Your subscription guarantees your seat.
Renowned for its national broadcasts on PBS, A Classic Christmas is a beloved Central Florida tradition. The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra will be joined by the Bach Festival Children’s Choirs for this joyous celebration. Your subscription guarantees your seat.
Vocal ensemble sensation Voctave returns to Steinmetz Hall with the Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra to kick off the most wonderful time of the year. These dynamic performers bring dazzling vocals and charm to holiday classics and new favorites. Last year’s festive program was a sell out!
Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri Dominus, and Nisi Dominus were commissioned by Handel’s Roman patron, Cardinal Colonna. These are some of the most charming examples of Handel’s early music and are rarely heard together.
Childhood friends and Julliard classmates Erika Nickrenz (piano), Sara Parkins (violin), and Sara Sant’Ambrogio (cello) now grace classical music’s grandest stages with “an edge-of-the-seat intensity to every note they produce.” (New York Times)
Ecce cor Meum (Latin for “Behold My Heart”) was commissioned by Magdalen College, Oxford. It premiered in 2001 and is dedicated to the memory of the composer’s late wife, Linda McCartney. (Florida Premiere)
Schubert described his Symphony No. 9 as “grosse Sinfonie,” meaning “large” or “great” and the demonstrated “… breadth and expanse of the form…” is paired with uninhibited gaiety and exuberance.
Guest artist Daniel Adam Maltz, along with his pianoforte, re-creates the instrumental ensemble as Haydn configured it at the Esterhazy estate. A virtuosic musician and scholar of Viennese Classicism, Mr. Maltz will offer insight on the fortepiano, the pre-curser to the modern piano, while performing with the Bach Festival Chamber Choir, Orchestra, and vocal soloists.
John V. Sinclair, conductor • Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra
Bach Vocal Artists
For the final concert of their inaugural year, the Bach Vocal Artists will present a program entitled “The Marriage of Music and Poetry” patterned after a Rollins College class by the same name taught for many years by Dr. Sinclair. This hybrid program will use beautiful choral settings and insightful commentary to explore the relationship between music, the language of sound, and poetry, the music of language.
Tickets from $15
John V. Sinclair, conductor • Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
Guest Soloists
The focus of this timely and compelling program is the coveted, yet elusive goal of peace. The musical centerpiece of this poignant program, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins, was written to commemorate the victims of the Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and portrays both the horrors of war and the yearning for peace. In addition to elements of the traditional mass, this work includes words of Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Old Testament Psalms, the Islamic call to prayer, and the Sanskrit Mahabharata. In the last masterworks concert of the season, the Bach Choir and Orchestra, along with four guest soloists, are featured in this powerful and emotional performance.
Tickets from $25
John V. Sinclair, conductor • Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
Guest Soloists
The focus of this timely and compelling program is the coveted, yet elusive goal of peace. The musical centerpiece of this poignant program, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins, was written to commemorate the victims of the Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and portrays both the horrors of war and the yearning for peace. In addition to elements of the traditional mass, this work includes words of Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Old Testament Psalms, the Islamic call to prayer, and the Sanskrit Mahabharata. In the last masterworks concert of the season, the Bach Choir and Orchestra, along with four guest soloists, are featured in this powerful and emotional performance.
Tickets from $25
John V. Sinclair, conductor • Members of the Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra
Samuel McKelton, tenor
No musical art form was conceived with more purpose and passion than the Spiritual. Learn more about the history of this profound genre through spirituals sung by members of the Bach Festival Choir and guest soloist Samuel McKelton. McKelton, lauded by The New York Times for the “natural elegance” of his lyric tenor voice, is dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual. He will perform some of his favorites and share his perspective their historical, cultural, and personal significance.
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This performance provides a rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s most celebrated string quartets with one of America’s foremost pianists. Proclaimed by The New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs,” Jeremy Denk is a winner of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize. The Takács Quartet, formed in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, has won a Grammy and the Wigmore Hall Medal. The Bach Festival Society is honored to present this stellar collaboration.
Tickets from $30
Hear one of the most celebrated composers of our time discuss the creative process and subsequent product. The masterful Aspen Trio performs a program that includes a work by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Harbison as well as the Mozart work that inspired his composition. This is a truly unique opportunity to hear an acclaimed composer’s interpretations accompanying its performance.
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