Johann Sebastian Bach News

Kurdish opera singer, Pervin Chakar is breaking boundaries and bridging divides by singing in her native tongue, Kurdish. 

2020 Avery Fisher Prize winner baroque violinist Rachell Ellen Wong appears in virtual performance debuts with not one, but three distinguished Seattle-based organizations, as well as at the first and only music festival in the U.S. devoted exclusively to presenting the chamber music of the Classical and Romantic era.

Star cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his highly anticipated Princeton returna?"virtuallya?"as part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s Sunday, October 18 online concert broadcast at 4pm with a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra will kick off its 2020-21 season on Saturday, October 3 with a performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti. Tickets start at just $15. This performance is a return of the orchestra to the concert hall since the abrupt cancellation of spring concerts due to COVID-19.

The Taiwan Philharmonic, together with the National Theater & Concert Hall, Taiwan Public Television Service, and TSMC Education and Culture Foundation (TSMC Foundation), invites world-renowned violinist Ray Chen to give the first livestreamed violin masterclass during the pandemic for global music fans on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Music's 6:30 Concert Series is going virtual this season. The 2020-2021 season will premiere Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. with Luis Fernandez in Recital.

The fall season of Tippet Rise & Friends at Home, which shares video streams of previously unreleased concerts from past seasons, starts on September 10 with a performance by the Escher String Quartet.

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra has announced tickets for all 2020-21 concerts season on sale starting today, Monday, August 24. Classical tickets start at $15 with a variety of bundles to save on purchases of multiple concerts.

BBC Proms is fast approaching, with the first Prom kicking off on 28 August. 

Four String Quartets for four successive Thursdays equals the Lot of Strings Music Festival which began August 13th with the Tesla Quartet and continues through Thursday, September 3rd.  All performances are at 7:30 pm.

Norm Lewis and Bruce Sabath are among the major names participating in a production called Brotherhood/Sisterhood that will debut on YouTube this Sunday at 6:00 PM. It is the opening night of the Bach Virtuosi Festival.

la speranza, the Houston-based ensemble that explores the connection between music and wellness through chamber music performances on period instruments, celebrates fourth anniversary of its formation by announcing its 2020-2021 season, 'Hope for the Future'.

Tippet Rise Art Center has announced two online initiatives, adding to its websitea??s expansive offerings of films, performances, interviews, podcasts, and photography.

This August Shobana Jeyasingh Dance presents two different versions of the intense and moving Contagion, co-commissioned by 14 a?" 18 NOW to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

The Joyce announced today the remaining digital programming for Summer 2020 on its acclaimed streaming platform, JoyceStream. A diverse selection of extraordinary dance by Kyle Abraham, Shantala Shivalingappa, Urban Bush Women, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet will round out The Joyce's presentation of streaming performances this season.

Tippet Rise Art Center announces two online initiatives, adding to its website's expansive offerings of films, performances, interviews, podcasts, and photography. Brought about by the cancellation of the art center's seven-week summer series due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tippet Rise is launching a library of free music downloads in high resolution format and offering its audiences a monthly virtual concert series, Tippet Rise & Friends at Home, comprised of new video streams of past performances.

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will stream a performance of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

Boston Pops has released information about their upcoming schedule!

Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early  music ensemble, will broadcast its season finale on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and its website www.arslyricahouston.org on Saturday, May 16th, at 7:30 p.m. Johann Sebastian Bach's Phoebus and Pan was half of the original program, Bach Goes Greek, which was intended for the stage of Zilkha Hall. The broadcast will include soloists from a 2008 performance of the work as well as music and commentary from the artists who were slated to appear on the concert. 

On April 12, Italian tenor and global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo performance at the historic Duomo, the cathedral of Milan, Italy. Now, according to Deadline, the performance will be airing on PBS channels this week. The special will be titled, Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope, A Great Performances Special.