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Lewis Kaplan at 2024 Festival in New York

The Eternal Bach: celebrating Bach and beyond at New York’s Bach Virtuosi Festival

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The Bach Virtuosi Festival, founded and directed by violinist, conductor, and pedagogue Lewis Kaplan, launched its New York concert series on 14 May 2024. Bringing this festival, which began in Portland, Maine in 2016, to New York has been Kaplan’s desire for several years. The Portland festival will continue with its ninth season from 19-25 […]

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Richard Goode

Renowned pianist Richard Goode charms audience at Portland Bach festival

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

His performance centered around works by Beethoven, but references to Bach were felt in throughout. By Steve Feeney for the Portland Press Herald While it was works by Beethoven that were featured in a “special performance” by world renowned pianist Richard Goode on Friday night at this year’s Bach Virtuosi Festival at St. Luke’s Cathedral […]

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Emi Ferguson performing

Concert review: Tradition comes out on top in dueling Bach festivals

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Returning musicians from the original event give Bach Virtuosi Festival the edge over Portland Bach Experience The battle of the Bach festivals in Portland entered its second round Sunday evening, when Lewis Kaplan raised the curtain on his Bach Virtuosi Festival, just hours after Emily Isaacson’s Portland Bach Experience concluded its run. Kaplan had started […]

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2022 Performance of the Brandenberg Concerto

Video Highlights from the past two years

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

2023 will be our greatest festival since beginning seven years ago! In addition to our Bach concerts and our array of great performers, world-renowned pianist Richard Goode will perform one of Beethoven’s greatest works, the Diabelli Variations. BVF will present two first-time performances at the festival, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. In association with the Portland Museum of Art, we will […]

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Lewis Kaplan being interviewed by NY-1 TV

Interview on Spectrum TV

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s involvement in Brotherhood/Sisterhood, the opening night production of the 2020 Bach Virtuosi Festival, was featured on NY-1 Spectrum TV. More than 825,000 people watch NY-1 each week and their stories are repeated multiple times per day. Below is the video. We story of Brotherhood/Sisterhood is about the larger role that classical music […]

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Bach Virtuosi Festival playing July 31, 2022

Concert Review: Bach Virtuosi Festival begins with inspiring program

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The concert Sunday at St. Luke’s was the first event of several in Portland this week. The seventh annual Bach Virtuosi Festival started on a high note – many of them, in fact, during its first event, a 90-minute concert Sunday at St. Luke’s Cathedral. The festival, which this year offers events, musical and otherwise, at various […]

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Bach Virtuosi Festival in concert in 2022

Bach Virtuosi Festival adds a free concert to its weeklong series

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

The festival, founded by Lewis Kaplan in 2016, is bringing acclaimed classical musicians to Portland for six concerts. Lewis Kaplan stepped down from the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2014 after serving for 50 years as artistic director of the event he founded. He was 80 at the time and could easily have let that […]

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Full Concert Recording Sunday August 1, 2021

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

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Brotherhood/Sisterhood Performance

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

August 16, 2020 on YouTube Brotherhood/Sisterhood was a performance about humanity, equity and social justice. The premise of this dramatic work was about the challenges we face today on the struggle for inclusion and acceptance. Select readings and speeches from renowned authors, poets and politicians read by distinguished actors, essayists, poets and politicians. The music […]

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Lewis Kaplan

Masterclass August 23, 2020

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Lewis Kaplan, Director of the Bach Virtuosi Festival, leads a Masterclass and then performs Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004, to wrap up the 2020 concert series. This free, prerecorded event was recorded at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Mr. Kaplan has refered to this piece as […]

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Beiliang Zhu playing BWV 1012

Full Concert August 19, 2020

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

This concert offers four special performances from flutist Emi Ferguson, harpsichordist Arthur Haas, cellist Beiliang Zhu, and violinist Renee Jolles. The sound on each performance is striking and bold. We have put a great deal of time into making sure that the Virtual Virtuosi presentations rival that of the in-person concerts. Goldberg Variation No.13, arr. […]

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Full Concert August, 18, 2020

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Three performances from the world renowned Bach Virtuosi. This program opens with Ariadne Daskalakis joining us from Cologne, Germany. She is followed by a trio consisting of soprano Sherezade Panthaki, harpsichordist Arthur Haas, and Martha McGaughey on viola da gamba. We wrap up the evening with a “highly unusual location” for cellist Paul Dwyer to […]

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Bach Virtousi Festival 2019

Six Movements from Four Concerts

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Six Movements from Four Concerts at the 2019 Festival.

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Bach Virtousi Festival

BVF Associates Concert 2019

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

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Bach Virtuosi Festival performing before Bach and beyond

Before Bach and Beyond June 2019

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Composers who influenced Bach and composers who were influenced by Bach.

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