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Jay Carter Countertenor

Q&A with Countertenor Jay Carter

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

It has been a busy autumn for countertenor Jay Carter. He has continued teaching and mentoring his undergraduate students at William Jewell College, as well as touring and performing a considerable amount. We caught up with Jay to ask him a few questions. Bach Virtuosi Festival: Tell us about a few of your performances and […]

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Renee Jolles

Q&A with violinist Renee Jolles

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

I am thrilled to perform in Portland for the third summer at the Bach festival. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of my favorite composers, and I am delighted to play his music with so many talented musicians each summer. The audiences that we play for every year are kind, respectful and cultured; it’s clear that […]

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Bach VIrtuosi Festival Performing

Boston Globe calls Bach Virtuosi Festival ‘can’t miss classical event’ of the summer

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The Bach Virtuosi Festival is included in the Boston Globe’s Summer Arts Preview: Classical Critic’s Picks, “From Bach to ‘The Barber of Seville,’ 10 Can’t Miss Classical Events“ “For the third year in a row, Portland becomes a destination for all things Bach and Baroque in June. Cantatas, concertos, and cello suites featuring some of […]

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Jay and Sherry

A video interview with countertenor Jay Carter and soprano Sherezade Panthaki

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

We continue our Videos with the Virtuosi series with soprano Sherezade Panthaki and countertenor Jay Carter, two singers who are beloved by our Portland audience because of their exquisite performances last summer. In part one of our candid interview, Sherry and Jay share their feelings about Bach, Handel, and the acoustics at St. Luke’s Cathedral. […]

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Emi Ferguson and Beiliang Zhu performing

The passion of playing Bach, a video interview with flutist Emi Ferguson

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

We spent a few minutes speaking with flutist Emi Ferguson about playing Bach and what she is most looking forward to at this summer’s Bach Virtuosi Festival. Emi shared with us her passion for playing Johann Sebastian Bach and added historical facts about when Bach first composed music for the flute. Her energy clearly comes […]

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John Thiessen trumpet player

A video interview with trumpet player John Thiessen

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

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John Thiessen

Virtuoso Conversation: John Ferrillo, First Oboe of the Boston Symphony

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

John Ferrillo is a consummate musician, he has a sensitive ear and a warm style. His musical ideas are clear and persuasive and in chamber music these are great attributes. He has a major role in the concert on June 2, playing and leading the Sinfonia from Bach’s Easter Oratorio. He joins an all star cast […]

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The Evolving of Bach

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The second monthly video from Lewis Kaplan, the Festival Director of the Bach Virtuosi Festival.

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Henry Kramer

Four Questions for Henry Kramer

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Bach Virtuosi Festival: Share with us details about upcoming performances and tours in 2018. Henry Kramer: I am very excited to be performing piano with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Robert Moody on January 30. I will also be making my Philadelphia recital debut through Astral Artists in March, an appearance on Yale’s Horowitz […]

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Sherezade Panthaki

Q&A with soprano Sherezade Panthaki

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

How wonderful it is to be invited back to gorgeous Portland, Maine, for a summer Bach festival, celebrating the music of my all-time favorite composer! I’m delighted to have met such warm, engaged audiences last summer; it’s clear that this beautiful city attracts people that are passionate about supporting a world-class Bach Festival, and the […]

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Brian Giebler

Video with the Virtuosi – Tenor Brian Giebler

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

As a part of our ongoing series, Videos with the Virtuosi, we sat down with tenor Brian Giebler to discuss Handel’s Messiah from Trinity Wall Street (with members of BVF), performing Bach for the Portland audience, and the world-renowned musicians of the Bach Virtuosi Festival. Brian Giebler performed at the 2019 Bach Virtuosi Festival.

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Happy 333, JSB

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Johann Sebastian Bach would have been 333 years old in 2018 (Wednesday, March 21st). There is great significance to the number 333 for Bach. He was a strong believer in numerology and the number 333 would have been quite meaningful to him. I don’t know how the numbers influenced his everyday life, but as a […]

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Ariadne Daskalakis / Violin

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The combination of performing the great repertoire of Bach alongside such fine colleagues and the wonderful welcome we receive each year in Portland has been very special and memorable to me. I am looking forward to returning to Portland in June. After last summer, I performed in festivals in Massachusetts (Music from Land’s End Wareham) […]

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Arthur Haas

Arthur Haas / Harpsichord

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Music has filled up my schedule since June. I taught at two Massachusetts festivals: Amherst Early Music and the International Baroque Institute at Longy (School of Music of Bard in Cambridge). We explored German and Italian music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Following, I played concerts in Ariadne Daskalakis’ Lands End Festival on Cape […]

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The Importance of J.S. Bach

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

This is the first monthly video from the Bach Virtuosi Festival featuring Lewis Kaplan, Festival Director.

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