Oregon Bach Festival | Bach: Magnificat

• MaryRuth Lown Miller, soprano
• Olivia Miller, soprano
• Rhianna Cockrell, alto
• Sylvia Leith, alto
• Corey Shotwell, tenor
• Steven Soph, tenor
• Harrison Hintzsche, bass
• Edmund Milly, bass
• Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

Inspired by Bach's 1723 move to Leipzig, the "imaginative and spontaneous" (The New York Times) Jos van Veldhoven leads the OBF Period Orchestra and OBF Chorus through a Baroque-era musical journey. Beginning with movements from Telemann's celebratory nautical oratorio Hamburg Admiralty Music, the program includes cantatas from Graupner and Bach, and concludes with the joyous and transformative Bach Magnificat.

Join OBF for a free 2023 Opening Celebration at 6pm before the concert in Beall Hall. More information: https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/obf_2023_opening_celebration

Jos van Veldhoven presents a free Hinkle Distinguished Lecture – "1723: A Festival Inspired by Bach’s Move to Leipzig" on Thursday, June 29 in Berwick Hall. Join us for a social event at 5pm and the lecture at 5:30pm with Jos van Veldhoven. More information: https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/1723_a_festival_inspired_by_bachs_move_to_leipzig_with_jos_van_veldhoven

This program will also be performed at Reed College in Kaul Auditorium on July 1 at 8pm. More information: https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/73783/cmnw-presents-the-oregon-bach-festival-magnificat

About Oregon Bach Festival

https://oregonbachfestival.org/

About Oregon Bach Festival Period Orchestra

Formed in 2015 in alignment with Oregon Bach Festival's newly launched Berwick Academy for Historically Informed Performance, the OBF Period Orchestra is comprised of the world's best baroque and classical instrumentalists. The orchestra varies in size, based on the annual needs of the festival, and many of the musicians serve as faculty members of the prestigious Berwick Academy. Violinist Marc Destrube leads the select group, which includes performers from top symphonies and orchestras.

About MaryRuth Lown Miller, soprano

http://www.maryruthlownsoprano.com/

About Olivia Miller, soprano

https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/personnel/olivia-miller

About Rhianna Cockrell, alto

https://www.rhiannacockrell.com/

About Sylvia Leith, alto

https://sylvialeith.com/

About Corey Shotwell, tenor

http://www.coreyshotwell.com/

About Steven Soph, tenor

http://www.stevensoph.com/

About Harrison Hintzsche, bass

https://harrisonhintzsche.com/

About Edmund Milly, bass

http://www.edmundmilly.com/

About Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

Jos van Veldhoven was Artistic Director of the Netherlands Bach Society for more than 35 years. He developed this company into a leading, world-class ensemble. Under his leadership an impressive CD series was created, and he made many concert tours in the Netherlands, Europe, the United States, and Japan. Not only the music of Bach and his contemporaries sounded, but also often "new" repertoire from the 17th and 18th Centuries. In his programming, Jos van Veldhoven knows how to connect tradition and adventure over and over again. He is also the initiator of All of Bach, an unprecedented project in which the Netherlands Bach Society performs, records, and publishes all of Bach’s works online. More than 20 million followers worldwide now enjoy the recordings on YouTube and the Netherlands Bach Society's own channel, and they have received large acclaim all over the world.

Jos van Veldhoven often attracts attention with performances of "new" repertoire within the early music genre. There have been some remarkable performances of oratorios by Telemann and Graun, vespers by Gastoldi, reconstructions of Bach's St. Mark Passion, the Köthener Trauer-Music, and many lesser known seventeenth-century oratorios and dialogues. He has also conducted a large number of modern premieres of Baroque operas by composers such as Mattheson, Keiser, Bononcini, Legrenzi, Conti, and Scarlatti. Jos van Veldhoven is in great demand as a guest conductor, and has conducted, among others, the Dutch Chamber Choir, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Flemish Radio Choir, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and many of the Dutch symphony orchestras. Between 2001 and 2010, Jos van Veldhoven worked with director Dietrich Hilsdorf on a cycle of staged Handel oratorios in the opera houses of Bonn and Essen.

Jos van Veldhoven has been associated with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague as a teacher of choral conducting for more than 30 years. In 2007, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands made him a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion for his ground-breaking work in early music.