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.
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!
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.
