Sebastian Bach News

Bloomingdale School of Music presents the 10th Annual Guitar Festival on Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30, 2022.

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Temecula Valley Symphony will present “THE THREE B'S,” Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, featuring the full symphony orchestra and soloists under the baton of Maestro John Mario, Music Director and Conductor, to be presented on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 31143 Nicolas Road, Temecula, CA  92591.

National Philharmonic has announced its 2022-2023 season, which includes eight classical programs conducted by Music Director Piotr Gajewski and two by Chorale Artistic Director Stan Engebretson; two pops shows led by Principal Pops Conductor Luke Frazier; and a piano recital.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings her latest innovative project to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Saturday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. Titled EDEN, the program explores our individual connection to nature and its impact on our world and features Ms. DiDonato’s frequent collaborators Maxim Emelyanychev leading Italian chamber orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro. Fusing music, movement, and theater, the program includes works spanning from the 17th to the 21st century by Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Ives, and Copland, as well as the New York premiere of Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman’s The First Morning of the World, commissioned specifically for this project.

Vermont’s internationally acclaimed Bread and Puppet Theater will return to the University of Connecticut for two outdoor afternoon performances of Aeschylus’ tragedy The Persians on April 23 and 24, 2022.

 The University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts today announces its 2022–23 Season, presenting 20 visionary artists and ensembles who are pushing artistic boundaries, blending genres and bringing more diverse creative representation to the stage. With the world opening back up to travel, this season also marks the resumption of international touring artists to each series of the season. 

Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, Bleat—the second work to be commissioned as part of the Greek National Opera (GNO) and NEON program The Artist on the Composer—will have its world premiere accompanied by live music ensembles on Friday, May 6, Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May  8,  2022.

Today, GRAMMY Award-winning classical guitarist Jason Vieaux releases Bach Volume 2: Works for Violin on Azica Records.

The Chicago area's 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.

On March 25, Naïve Classiques will release VIVALDI/BACH, the latest from Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano.

Conducted by Music Director Rossen Milanov, the Columbus Symphony will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's transformative and life-changing St. John's Passion in its entirety.

Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform at the inaugural City Center Dance Festival from March 24-31, at New York City Center.

After a two-year hiatus, the klpac Orchestra is making an exciting comeback by joining hands with the Wicked Music People to bring you “Baroque Elegance” under the baton of Music Director and Resident Conductor Lee Kok Leong.

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York’s leading cultural venues, today announced The Bach-Mendelssohn Connection, a ten-day festival of concerts and salons that will explore the unexpected or hidden connections between Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn.

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, today announced The Bach-Mendelssohn Connection,a ten-day festival of concerts and salons that will explore the unexpected or hidden connections between Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn.

Cutting-edge voices in dance will take center stage at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center March 24 – 27 at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's (PBT) Here + Now. Featuring a lineup of internationally acclaimed — and all female — choreographers, this evocative mixed repertory production showcases the beauty and innovation of contemporary ballet.

At times exquisitely lovely and, at others, confronting and brutal.

LA Opera’s next production St. Matthew Passion will open March 12, 2022, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. LA Opera’s music director James Conlon conducts with choreographer John Neumeier staging Johann Sebastian Bach’s scared masterpiece with members of the Hamburg Ballet. The always busy Maestro found some time to answer a few of my orchestral queries.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's Great Music in a Great Space concert series presents a performance by Artist in Residence David Briggs, on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30pm, preceded by a free pre-concert lecture at 7pm, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street).