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SUMMARY:September Bach at Noon
DESCRIPTION:Our Bethlehem Bach at Noon season kicks off on September 8th at Central Moravian Church. Gather with us for this free concert series\, a musical gift to our community. Hear members of the Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra along with exciting guest artists. Gather with us for this free\, inspiring concert series\, a musical gift to our community. \nThe September Bach at Noon is supported in part by a generous endowment gift from Katherine S. Merle-Smith Thomas and is named in her honor. \nThis month\, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem is proud to host our 150th Bethlehem Bach at Noon.  For this milestone concert\, the Choir will be featuring Danqi Zeng\, Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Lillian & Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition. Established in 2019 to honor Long Island arts advocates Lillian and Maurice “Murray” Barbash\, the annual competition welcomes string players ages 16 to 30 from around the world to perform Bach’s unaccompanied sonatas\, partitas\, and suites on modern or Baroque instruments. The Grand Prize winner receives $10\,000 and paid engagements with several distinguished musical organizations\, including the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. The competition gives exceptional young musicians both international recognition and valuable opportunities to share their artistry with new audiences. \n \nCLICK HERE TO VIEW THE DIGITAL PROGRAM \nThis Month’s Featured Soloists\nViolinist and baroque violin specialist Danqi Zeng is the Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Lillian & Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition. Featured as a soloist across North America and Asia\, her recent accolades include winning Indiana University’s Stravinsky\, Saint-Georges\, and Historical Performance Institute Vivaldi Concerto Competitions\, as well as top prizes in the MASTA and MTNA Young Artist Competitions. \nHer 2026–2027 engagements include appearances with the Washington Bach Consort\, Island Symphony Bach Festival\, Gotham Early Music Scene\, Amor Artis\, and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Active in chamber music\, Zeng performs with the Z-G Duo alongside her husband\, keyboardist Benjamin Gittens\, and performs regularly on modern violin\, baroque violin\, and viola da gamba. \nDedicated to education\, Zeng has taught students globally for over a decade and serves as an Associate Instructor in Music Theory at Indiana University. She holds dual master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Zeng is currently completing dual Doctor of Music degrees in Modern Violin and Historical Performance at Indiana University under Mauricio Fuks\, Ingrid Matthews\, and Joanna Blendulf. \n\n\nANIKA KILDEGAARD\, soprano  Praised for her “captivating and sensual” singing (Riptide Magazine)\, soprano Anika Kildegaard is recognized as an interpreter of music spanning centuries\, from Baroque to contemporary styles. Her 2026-27 season includes appearances with The Crossing\, Seraphic Fire\, Alarm Will Sound\, Filament\, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem\, No Exit New Music Ensemble\, and The University of Iowa’s Center for New Music. She is also engaged in residencies at Brown\, University of Pittsburgh\, Western Michigan University\, Haverford\, and Davidson College. Recent highlights include her “highly ambitious\, intellectually rigorous\, superbly delivered recital” (Parterre Box) in December  2025\, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, and a Midwest tour of contemporary works with her soprano/double bass duo LIGAMENT\, drawing praise from Cleveland Classical for being “careful shapers of sound. . . and utterly absorbing.” \nSTEVEN EDDY\, baritone\, is an accomplished concert artist and Baroque music specialist who has garnered praise as a soloist and professional choral singer with such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic\, Oratorio Society of New York\, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra\, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem\, Seraphic Fire\, True Concord Voices and Orchestra\, Spire Chamber Ensemble\, The Thirteen\, Variant Six\, Clarion Music Society\, American Classical Orchestra\, and Choral Arts Philadelphia. Mr. Eddy appears on several notable and well-received recordings\, including the live concert recordings of Paul Moravec’s A Nation of Others on Lexicon Classics and David Lang’s prisoner of the state with Decca\, Daron Hagen’s The Art of Song with Naxos\, Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg’s Any of Those Decembers with Navona\, and The Garden: Songs and Vocal Chamber Music of Tom Cippulo with Albany Records. Upcoming performance highlights in the 2026-2027 season include concerts with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem\, Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition with Philadelphia’s LyricFest\, and a staged performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with The Thirteen at the Washington National Cathedral. For more information\, please visit Mr. Eddy’s website at steveneddybaritone.com. \nELIZABETH FIELD\, violin\, distinguished for her passionate and stylistic playing on both period and modern instruments\, is the founder of The Vivaldi Project whose highly acclaimed recordings of unknown 18th-century string trios titled Discovering the Classical String Trio  are currently available on MSR Classics records. Field has been concertmaster of Bach Festival Orchestra for over 20 years and has performed as guest concertmaster with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the U.S.\, from Washington\, D.C.’s acclaimed Washington Bach Consort to Opera Lafayette. She also performed and recorded extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Field holds a Doctorate in Historical Performance Practice from Cornell University and has held professorships at Sacramento State University and the University of California at Davis. She is currently on faculty at George Washington University. Her DVD with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson\, Performing the Score\, has been hailed by Emanuel Ax as both “truly inspiring” and “authoritative.” Seen and Heard International proclaimed that Field “played so thrillingly that if Mendelssohn had heard Field play he would have written her a concerto too.” For more information\, please visit thevivaldiproject.org\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nClick the above logo to livestream this month’s Bach at Noon on YouTube. \nBach at Noon concerts are also broadcast live on WWFM\, a long-time media sponsor. This year’s broadcasts are made possible by the generous support of John L. and the late Carol H. Daniel and Arthur Mead Martin. Listen in live at WWFM.org or tune in to a station in your area. \nBach at Noon concerts are also broadcast twice per month on WDIY\, the Bach Choir’s community partner in the Lehigh Valley. Concerts air on an episode of WDIY Classics\, weekdays at 10 AM\, and Hearing Voices\, Sundays at 7 PM. Check WDIY’s website and social media pages for air dates. Listen on 88.1 FM\, wdiy.org\, or the WDIY app. \nSupport the Bach at Noon Concert Series!\nSupport the Bach at Noon concert series with a freewill donation at the concert using the provided envelopes\, donate online\, or text BNOON to 44-321. Contributions can also be mailed to The Bach Choir of Bethlehem at 440 Heckewelder Place\, Bethlehem\, PA 18018. \n\n\nShare This:
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