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Handel and Haydn Society Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the 211-year-old ensemble in Bach + Telemann, an all-Baroque program at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge on May 16, 2026. Soprano Robin Johannsen, countertenor Christopher Lowrey, tenor Guy Cutting, and bass-baritone Dingle Yardell join the H+H Orchestra to perform three funeral cantatas by Bach and Telemann alongside Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, all played on period instruments. The program features distinctive Baroque instruments including the viola da gamba and theorbo, whose tones blend with voice and other instruments throughout the cantatas and concerto.

Cast and Creative Team for Bach + Telemann at Sanders Theatre

Cast

Robin Johannsen
Ensemble
Christopher Lowrey
Ensemble
Guy Cutting
Ensemble
Dingle Yardell
Ensemble

Creative Team

Artistic Director
Teresa Neff
Historically Informed Performance Fellow

News About Bach + Telemann at Sanders Theatre

Handel And Haydn Society And Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini Present Bach's Easter Oratorio

March 17, 2023

Esteemed Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini joins the Handel and Haydn Society for the award-winning organization's performances of Bach's Easter Oratorio. The Gramophone award winner and Grammy nominee will be front and center March 31 + April 2, 2023, at Symphony Hall in Boston. The concerts will also include Antonio Bononcini's Stabat Mater.

Handel And Haydn Society's Emi Ferguson Performs First Solo With Mozart First Concerto

March 3, 2023

The Handel and Haydn Society's principal flutist, Emi Ferguson, will make her solo debut with H+H in Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major. The performance will be part of a pair of H+H concerts March 17 + 19, 2023 at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. The concerts will show the brilliance of the classical period with works from Mozart + Mendelssohn. David Stern, founder of Opera Fuoco in France, will conduct.

Handel and Haydn Society Announces 2023-24 Season

February 16, 2023

The Handel and Haydn Society announces its 2023-24 season, the first under new Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen. Cohen is just the 15th to hold that position in Handel and Haydn Society's 209 years and has selected an eclectic group of works for the season's eleven concerts.

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