SEVERANCE HALL

Join the Bach Choir of Bethlehem as they celebrate their 116th Bach Festival in May 2024. Enjoy the choir in a two-weekend event. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets! ...

The widely admired Bach Choir of Bethlehem will perform a collaborative concert with the dance departments of Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts and Muhlenberg College. The performance will take place on Sunday afternoon, 3 p.m., February 18, 2024 at Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem....

Join CelloBello for a captivating evening celebrating the Cleveland Quartet with a documentary premiere and live performances by The Weilerstein Trio and Cleveland Orchestra Cellists. ...

​​​​​​​In 2023/2024, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, founded in 1898, celebrates its 125th anniversary. Learn more about the season here!...

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem will present a ground-breaking world premiere of Mendelssohn's interpretation of the Saint Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach on Saturday afternoon, November 4, 2023, 3 p.m. at Packer Memorial Chapel at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania....

On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 7:30pm and Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 8:00pm, The Cleveland Orchestra presents the world premiere of “powerhouse” (The Washington Post) flutist, composer, and producer Allison Loggins-Hull's Can You See? at Mandel Concert Hall in Severance Music Center....

On Friday, November 18, 2022, international award-winning pianist Eric Zuber, releases his debut album, The Young Chopin on Azica Records....

Multiple GRAMMY-nominated harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and The Cleveland Orchestra's principal trumpet Michael Sachs announce the world premiere video performance of Aaron Jay Kernis' Elegy . . . for those we lost. Kernis wrote this work just one year ago offering music to reflect, mourn, and remember those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is presented for the first time in this arrangement created especially for Sachs and Kondonassis....

Harmonia Mundi will be releasing a recording on May 28, 2021 of Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva (catalog numberHMM902611) featuring GRAMMY award-winning organist Paul Jacobs as soloist with the Lucerne Symphony under conductor James Gaffigan. The performance was recorded live in concert in Lucerne, November 2018....

Board President Harold Black of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem announced the planned retirement of both Artistic Director and Conductor Greg Funfgeld and Executive Director Bridget George, taking place over the next two years. Mr. Funfgeld will conduct his final performances with The Choir during the May 2021 Bethlehem Bach Festival and officially retire in June 2021, celebrating 38 seasons as artistic head of the organization. Ms. George will retire in December 2020, after 24 years with The Choir....