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March 2024
Spring Concert : Bach Inspired
Join us for a captivating Spring Concert as we delve into the timeless brilliance of Bach’s festive cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80, which we believe was first heard in the U.S. in Bethlehem at Central Moravian Church in 1823 and which will echo across two centuries. And experience a glimpse of our upcoming European Tour as we unveil select musical gems we will take with us to prestigious venues in Germany and Austria.
Find out more »April 2024
May 2024
116th Bethlehem Bach Festival
Welcome to our 116th Bethlehem Bach Festival! The Bach Choir is honored to once again welcome you to the community that comes together each year for Festival, to celebrate the glorious music of J.S. Bach and other composers and the connections we make hearing it. You belong here as we share this wondrous Festival together. May 10–11 & May 17–18, 2024 • Lehigh University & sites in Historic & Southside Bethlehem
Find out more »116th Bethlehem Bach Festival – Bach Outdoors!
Begin your Bach Festival experience with the lively and engaging music at this free concert, welcoming audiences of all ages. We herald the beginning of an exciting weekend of music-making and shared community together outside in beautiful downtown Bethlehem!
Find out more »The Barnette Distinguished Scholar Lecture – Dr. Michael Marissen
Spend an hour in the company of one of the great Bach scholars of our time. He will discuss how Bach’s church cantatas and secular chamber music sometimes exalt instruments of low degree (such as the recorder) and put down from their seats mighty instruments (such as the violin). Dr. Marissen is the Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College.
Find out more »Bach at 4
Join The Choir and Festival Artist-in-Residence, recorder virtuoso Vincent Lauzer, in an intimate celebration of Bach’s instrumental and vocal music in the peerless acoustics of The Incarnation of Our Lord Church. The concert concludes with one of Bach’s greatest works, the motet Jesu, Meine Freude, a tour-de-force of vocal color and deep spirituality.
Find out more »Chamber Music in the Saal
Our keyboard artist par excellence, Charlotte Mattax Moersch, offers Bach’s spellbinding Goldberg Variations in the intimacy and beauty of the Saal at the Moravian Museum. These concerts sell out quickly, and this program promises to be a mountaintop experience of repertoire and setting.
Find out more »Bach at 8
As a preview to our European concert in Bach’s very own Thomaskirche at the Leipzig Bachfest, hear The Choir perform Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96 and Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180. These two shimmering cantatas will be bookended by a cappella choral repertoire including works by Rheinberger, Mendelssohn, and American choral tradition pieces that The Choir will share with our European audiences. Our Festival Artist-in-Residence Vincent Lauzer’s dazzling virtuosity will also be on display in Bach’s…
Find out more »Ifor Jones Chamber Music Concert
This year’s Ifor Jones Chamber Concert features Festival Artist-In-Residence Vincent Lauzer in both soloist and supporting roles with repertoire including the Telemann Suite for Recorder and Strings, TWV 55:a2, and Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 2, a jovial masterpiece featuring natural trumpet, violin, oboe, and recorder as soloists with the virtuosi of the Bach Festival Orchestra providing enchanting accompaniment. Also on the program are select movements from Mozart’s Serenade No. 5 in D major, K. 204/213a, for wind instruments, a work…
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