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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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Full Concert Recording Sunday August 1, 2021

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

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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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Bach

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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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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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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Six Movements from Four Concerts

by Bach Virtuosi Festival

Six Movements from Four Concerts at the 2019 Festival.

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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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