Oregon Bach Festival Chorus – Past Concerts
When Royce Saltzman and Helmuth Rilling founded the "Summer Festival of Music" in 1971, one of their first programming choices was Bach's St. John Passion. Knowing they'd need a chorus, Saltzman and Rilling set out to find the most talented voices in the community. Over the course of five decades, the Festival Chorus grew and evolved into the pinnacle of choral music performance. In 2001, Rilling and the OBF Chorus received the Grammy Award for their recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo—a piece of epic size and sound that will hold its 25th anniversary celebratory performance during the 2023 Festival. The current chorus, led by Kathy Saltzman Romey, ranges from 15 to 54 musicians and features top-tier vocalists from prominent choruses and all four corners of the country.
Oregon Bach Festival | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Gabriela Lena Frank — Pachamama Meets an Ode
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
$25-$65 ($5-$25 choose-what-you-pay option, $5 youth/college student with ID)
The Sacred Veil: Oregon Bach Festival Chorus with Eric Whitacre, conductor
$25-$55 ($5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Holst: The Planets – An HD Odyssey
$25-$65 ($5-$25 choose-what-you-pay option, $5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Mozart Mass in C minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Great Mass in C minor, K. 427/417a ("I. Kyrie," "II. Gloria," & "III. Credo"; reconstr. Clemens Kemme)
George Frideric Handel / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Der Messias, K. 572 (after Messiah, HWV 56) ("Hallelujah")
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Great Mass in C minor, K. 427/417a ("IV. Sanctus" & "V. Benedictus"; reconstr. Clemens Kemme)
Johann Sebastian Bach / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Five Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier for String Quartet, K. 405 (No. 4: After J.S. Bach's Prelude & Fugue in D-sharp minor, BWV 877)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Litaniae Lauretanae, K. 195/186d ("Agnus Dei")
Johann Sebastian Bach — Mass in B minor, BMV 232 (No. 27: Dona nobis pacem)
$35-$60 ($5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Snider: Mass for the Endangered
$25-$45 ($5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Bach: Ascension Oratorio
Johann Sebastian Bach — Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 "Ascension Oratorio"
$25 ($5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Bach: Ascension Oratorio
Johann Sebastian Bach — Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 "Ascension Oratorio"
$25-$55 ($5 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival | Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Johann Sebastian Bach / Edward Elgar — Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Maurice Ravel — Piano Concerto in G major (Angela Hewitt, piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony"
$20-$60 ($5 full time college student/ages 18 & under)
Oregon Bach Festival | Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Johannes Brahms — Schicksalslied ("Song of Destiny"), Op. 54
Richard Strauss — Eine Alpensinfonie ("An Alpine Symphony"), Op. 64
$20-$60 ($5 full time college student/ages 18 & under)
Oregon Bach Festival | Silver Celebrations
Ralph Johnson — This House of Peace
Johann Sebastian Bach — Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben ("Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"), BWV 147 (selections)
George Frideric Handel — Samson, HWV 57 (selections)
René Clausen — Home
André J. Thomas — Mass: A Celebration of Love and Joy ("Gloria")
Krzysztof Penderecki — Credo
$20-$60 ($5 full time college student/ages 18 & under)
Oregon Bach Festival | Talbot: Path of Miracles
$25-$40 ($5 full time college student/ages 18 & under)
CMNW Presents the Oregon Bach Festival: Magnificat
Christoph Graupner — Aus der Tiefen rufen wir, GWV 1113/23a
Johann Sebastian Bach — Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22
Johann Sebastian Bach — Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
$32.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
Oregon Bach Festival: Bach – 'St. Matthew Passion'
$20-$60 ($10 youth/college student with ID)
Oregon Bach Festival: Bach's 'St. John Passion'
$20-$60 ($10 youth/college student with ID)
Choral Legacy: Voices of Past, Present, & Future
Celebrate the voices that have defined OBF for more than 50 years with an unforgettable choral event that honors the past, present, and fut…
$20-$60 ($10 youth/college student with ID)