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Artist-in-ResidenceFestival SoloistsSecond Weekend ~ May 20 & 21More Festival InfoFirst Weekend ~ May 13 and 14Our largest event of the year takes place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, traditionally on the campus of Lehigh University and on the historic grounds of the Moravian community. Glorious tradition, spirited performances, festival premieres…music for you. It will be our distinct pleasure to welcome so many of you back to Bethlehem in 2022 after a two-year “hold” on our live Festival concerts.
Our 112th Bethlehem Bach Festival in 2019 was – as ever – a time of reunions, annual renewal and contemplation and sharing this exquisite music as a community. The 2021 Virtual Festival was joyfully viewed by patrons from around the world – thank you! In 2022, as Artistic Director and Conductor Greg Funfgeld ends his influential and far-reaching tenure with The Choir, we will once again share our passion for Bach’s music with you and celebrate the transformative power of his extraordinary gifts.
“It’s not only the history of the Festival but the personal history that so many of the performers and members of the audience have with it that gives the weekend a very wonderful and sentimental atmosphere.”
— Karen B., longtime Festival attendee
Festival Artist-in-Residence 2022
Eliot Fisk, Guitar
Ifor Jones Chamber Music Concert | Saturdays: May 14 and 21
Greg Funfgeld, Artistic Director and Conductor welcomes back Elliot Fisk, Guitarist, as our 2022 Artist-in-Residence.
Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire. After nearly 50 years before the public he remains, as his mentor Andres Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.” In the 2017-18 season Fisk performed his transcriptions of all six Bach Cello Suites. The classical guitar repertoire has been transformed through Fisk’s innumerable transcriptions (including works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini, Schubert, Mendelssohn and many others). Following his own graduation in 1977, he founded the guitar department at the Yale School of Music. He is a Professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he teaches in five languages. He is also the Founder and Artistic Director of Boston GuitarFest (bostonguitarfest.org.)
“I have wanted to play the Boccherini/Cassado for years but the circumstances were never right. I heard Segovia play that work with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1968 live in my hometown of Philadelphia, and I must have listened to this recording of it hundreds of times as a boy: those big old 33 LPs! Like the voice of God.” – Eliot Fisk
Festival Soloists

Meg Bragle, Alto

Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano

Rosa Lamoreaux, Soprano

Isaiah Bell, Tenor

Daniel Taylor, Countertenor

Benjamin Butterfield, Tenor

William Sharp, Baritone

Dashon Burton, Bass
Second Weekend ~ May 20 & 21
Join us for a celebration of music and friendship!
(Repertoire, soloists and venues all subject to change.)
First Weekend ~ May 13 & 14
We look forward to sharing this glorious Festival with you
and to seeing you throughout the season!
(Repertoire, soloists and venues all subject to change.)