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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Q&A with soprano Sherezade Panthaki
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 […]
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Performance
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 […]
Masterclass August 23, 2020
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 […]
Full Concert August 19, 2020
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. […]
Full Concert August, 18, 2020
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 […]
Video with the Virtuosi – Tenor Brian Giebler
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.
Six Movements from Four Concerts
Six Movements from Four Concerts at the 2019 Festival.
BVF Associates Concert 2019
Before Bach and Beyond June 2019
Composers who influenced Bach and composers who were influenced by Bach.
Concert review: Bach’s breadth, secular and sacred, on display at Maine festival’s opening program
A top-flight ensemble of Baroque music specialists demonstrates their ample strengths. It’s tempting to think of June as Bach season in Maine, thanks largely to a pair of festivals: the Bach Virtuosi Festival, which got underway Sunday evening at the Cathedral of St. Luke’s, and runs through Sunday, and the Portland Bach Experience, which runs […]
Full Concert June 2, 2019
Bach Virtuosi Festival brings ‘the greatest in the world’ to Portland
At age 85, Lewis Kaplan draws energy trying to match or surpass what he has done before as a teacher, performer and music festival administrator. Speaking about the next Bach Virtuosi Festival at hand in early June, his conversation speeds up with enthusiasm as he talks about the roster of stars coming to Portland to […]
Full Concert June 24, 2018
Bach and Handel: Two Giants Bach – Double Harpsichord Concerto, Toccata and Fugue, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 4Handel – Eternal Source of Life Divine, Who Calls My Parting Soul, Welcome as the Dawn of Day, These Labors Past, and Let the Bright Seraphim
Full Concert June 21, 2018
J.S. Bach: Sacred and Profane Sonata No. 4 in C minor BWV 1017 Cantata “Vernugte Ruh” BWV 170Sonata in E minor BWV 1034Cantata “Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten” BWV 202