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Bach Festival Society

2008 - 2009 Season

By Theresa Johnston, About.com

Bach Festival Concert Series
Bach Festival Association
407-646-2182
1000 Holt Avenue - 2763
Winter Park, FL 32789

VISITING ARTISTS SERIES
The Bach Festival Society will present four performances, each featuring visiting soloists or chamber ensembles that have performed major works of the past and the work of talented new composers in the world's greatest concert halls. All performances will be held at the John M. Tiedtke concert Hall.

  • Hélène Grimaud, piano recital
    Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 3 pm
    Internationally renowned French pianist Hélène Grimaud is among the most sought-after pianists performing today. An Officer of the French Order of Arts and Literature, Grimaud is known for her fiercely purposeful style. This recital of works by Bach and Beethoven will challenge and delight.

  • Mystical Arts of Tibet
    Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8 pm
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama has endorsed the famed multiphonic monks of Drepung Loseling monastery as a means of promoting world peace and healing through sacred performing art. Mystical Arts of Tibet features dramatic sacred music and dance from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

  • Monica Yunus, soprano
    Friday, January 23, 2009 at 7:00pm
    Selected for this recital by the incomparable Marilyn Horne, Monica Yunus continues the vocal recital tradition. Yunus has stolen hearts with her lush and vocally seductive delivery, and this recital will thrill you with its romance and beauty.

  • Moscow String Quartet
    Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 3 pm
    The protégé quartet of the renowned Borodin Quartet, the Moscow String Quartet has been praised by the Yorkshire Post of England as having “a technical ease that seemed to allow an almost spiritual insight.”

  • Midori
    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8 pm
    Midori is known throughout the world for her dazzling violin performances and her work as a U.N. Ambassador of Peace. Her technical brilliance and artistry are thrilling.

CHORAL MASTERWORKS SERIES
Held at the Knowles Memorial Chapel.
  • Haydn’s Mass in Time of War
    Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 pm
    Sunday, October 26 at 3 pm

  • Holiday Choral Concerts
    Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 pm
    Sunday, December 14 at 2 pm

  • Series Nielsen’s Hymnus Amoris
    Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 pm
    Sunday, April 19 at 3 pm

FRED ROGERS FAMILY SERIES
All performances will be held at the John M. Tiedtke concert Hall.
  • Mystical Arts of Tibet
    Saturday, November 8 at 11 am

  • Moscow String Quartet
    Saturday, March 21 at 11 am

  • Carnival of the Animals
    Saturday, April 25 at 11 am

74TH ANNUAL BACH FESTIVAL
All performances will be held at the Knowles Memorial Chapel.
  • Carol Williams Organ Recital
    Sunday, February 15 at 3 pm

  • Rossini’s Stabat Mater
    Saturday, February 21 at 7:30 pm

  • Sharon Isbin, guitar & J.S. Bach’s Easter Oratorio
    Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm

  • Brahms’ German Requiem
    February 28 at 3 pm

  • Brahms’ German Requiem
    Sunday, March 1 at 3 pm

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