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J.S. BACH’S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS WITH ANGELA HEWITT: Boulder Bach Festival

eTown Hall 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder, United States

Of all the piano soloists in the history of the instrument, one has garnered the undisputed reputation for her mastery of J.S. Bach's oeuvre: Ms. Hewitt performs in Boulder for the first time, on a Fazioli concert grand piano. “I know of no musician whose Bach playing on any instrument is of greater subtlety, beauty […]

Boulder Bach Festival: Bach Birthday Bash and Fundraiser

e-town 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder, CO, United States

In celebration of JS Bach's birthday, the Boulder Bach Festival's Annual Fundraiser offers hors d’oeuvres,wine, meeting and greeting, at eTown Café.  Limited seating.

$200

VANISHING POINT: Boulder Bach Festival & COmpass Resonance Ensemble

eTown Hall 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder, United States

CoRE—COmpass Resonance Ensemble returns in a performance that begins with the Colorado premiere of a minuet by Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755-1818), a composer Carrettín has researched extensively in Italian archives. Then Mina Gajić performs Mozart's brilliant, charming, and poignant Piano Concerto in A Major K.414, accompanied by CoRE. The Festival Chorus completes the finale of […]

“Spring” Colorado Concert Film

online CO, United States

Usher in the Spring on J.S. Bach's birthday with Boulder Bach Festival's "Spring" Colorado Concert Film, featuring the music of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, and hear one of Colorado's most treasured historical pianos, an original Erard concert grand from Paris in the 1840's. Mina Gajic performs Mozart's much-loved Piano Concerto K. 414 in A Major […]

Across Time Across Cultures

Longmont Museum & Cultural Center 400 Quail Road, Longmont, CO, United States

Celebrate the return to live concerts with a program that embraces a diversity of musical styles, traveling across time and across cultures including works in romantic style with Moorish-Andalusian, Roma, and Sephardic influences. Zachary Carettin and Mina Gajić open the program with Joseph Achron's deeply meditative Hebrew Melody, and Gajić is then joined by Claire […]

$60

A Baroque Christmas—Händel’s “Messiah” with Boulder Bach Festival, Friday 12/17

Broomfield Auditorium 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, CO, United States

Our December concert offers a thrilling opportunity to hear Händel’s Messiah (Christmas portion) as you’ve never heard it before! Performed by one-per-part instrumental and vocal soloists, Carrettin’s rendition offers delightful aplomb, virtuosic clarity, riveting tempos, and meaningful intimacy. BBF’s resident ensemble, COmpass REsonance delivers a sparkling performance utilizing Baroque bows by the string players, chamber […]

$60

A Baroque Christmas—Händel’s “Messiah” with Boulder Bach Festival, December 19

Broomfield Auditorium 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, CO, United States

Our December concert offers a thrilling opportunity to hear Händel’s Messiah (Christmas portion) as you’ve never heard it before! Performed by one-per-part instrumental and vocal soloists, Carrettin’s rendition offers delightful aplomb, virtuosic clarity, riveting tempos, and meaningful intimacy. BBF’s resident ensemble, COmpass REsonance delivers a sparkling performance utilizing Baroque bows by the string players, chamber […]

$40 – $60

Across Time Across Cultures

Stewart Auditorium at Longmont Museum 400 Quail Road, Longmont, CO

Enjoy a program that embraces a diversity of musical styles, traveling across time and across cultures including works in romantic style with Moorish-Andalusian, Roma, and Sephardic influences. Carettin and Gajić open the program with Joseph Achron's deeply meditative Hebrew Melody, and Gajić is then joined by Claire McCahan for Manuel de Falla's poetic song cycle, Siete canciones […]

$60

BOULDER BACH: FESTIVAL WEEK

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

In May of 2022 we offer Festival Week, a celebration of J.S. Bach’s music alongside contemporaries and later composers. The venue is Boulder’s historic First Congregational Church. The wood floors and tiered stage offer a warm and clear acoustic to experience Bach’s complex counterpoint. Principal players and soloists include top prize winners from Boulder International […]

$375

FESTIVAL WEEK: Contemporaneous Concertos

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Contemporaneous Concertos opens Festival Week with a display of phenomenal examples of solo concerto and concerto grosso genres. Ysmael Reyes performs the Colorado premiere of a recently rediscovered concerto by Telemann—on the baroque flauto traverso. Zachary Carrettin leads the ensemble in works by Händel and Corelli in addition to J.S. Bach’s famous Concerto for Two Violins. […]

$75

FESTIVAL WEEK: Voices of the Chamber

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Voices of the Chamber focuses on intimate chamber music performed by some of our nation’s most insightful interpreters of baroque music. Trio sonatas by Isabella Leonarda, Giovanni Legrenzi, and Dario Castello offer a view into 17th century Italy, as compared and contrasted with J.S. Bach in the same genre. Violist Paul Miller and harpsichordist Christopher […]

$75

FESTIVAL WEEK: Next Generations

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

Next Generations explores works by later composers and features a rare 19th century Érard concert grand piano in pristine condition. The instrument traveled from Amsterdam to Boulder and offers a view into the colorful sound world that attracted Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt, Clara Schumann, Saint-Saens, Faure, and many others to the Érard pianos. Pianist Mina Gajić […]

$75

FESTIVAL WEEK: The Intimacy of J. S. Bach

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

The final concert of Festival Week offers J.S. Bach in several genres, starting with the profound Cello Suite in C Minor, performed by Coleman Itzkoff. The program continues with Cantata BWV 196, Der Herr denket an uns, an early work that flows with delight and dancing joy. The vocal quartet returns for a motet by Johann Christoph Bach that […]

$75

Journey to France with Jory Vinikour

Stewart Auditorium at Longmont Museum 400 Quail Road, Longmont, CO

With multiple GRAMMY nominations, Jory Vinikour’s solo harpsichord recordings and performances in all of the world’s great concert halls have placed him as a leading interpreter of baroque music in our time. You’ll hear J.S. Bach’s own ideas about French style in his French Overture, followed by a grand virtuosic suite of Rameau—all contextualized with […]

$60

Christmas Across the Ages

Broomfield Auditorium 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, CO, United States

COmpass REsonance chamber choir presents the rich harmonies of holiday music from before the time of Bach all the way to some of our most cherished contemporary songs. Mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan hosts the event with stories about the music across time and cultures, joined by CORE vocal artists in arias and popular songs, and in […]

$60

Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe

Stewart Auditorium at Longmont Museum 400 Quail Road, Longmont, CO

Superstar of the violin, Vadim Gluzman has often been called “a Paganini of our time.” Gluzman brings a special program with his duo partner, acclaimed pianist Angela Yoffe. This concert navigates the waters of music history with J.S. Bach’s influence, including works from the Baroque and Romantic Eras, a virtuosic violin solo by Eugène Ysaÿe, […]

$80

Sonic Alchemy

Dairy Arts Center - Gordon Gamm Theater 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO, United States

Following stunning performances at BBF’s 2022 Festival Week, Mina Gajić, YuEun Kim, and Coleman Itzkoff are reunited in a program that compares and contrasts the mystical Byzantine influence in the music of Arvo Pärt with Mozart’s music from the European Enlightenment. The two styles are brought together with poetic and imagematic works of Pēteris Vasks. […]

$47

Il Grande Amore

First Congregational Church 1128 Pine Street, Boulder, CO, United States

COmpass REsonance instrumental & vocal artists present several baroque genres in our 42nd season final concert. Paul Miller returns—with his viola d’amore; Adam Ewing sings one of JSB’s few works composed in Italian language; harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie appears for the first time at the BBF. Ysmael Reyes performs CPE Bach’s most substantial flute concerto accompanied […]

$60

Transcendence: The Goldberg Variations with David Korevaar

Dairy Arts Center - Gordon Gamm Theater 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO, United States

Epic. Transformational. Iconic. Multi-dimensional dreamscapes inspired by one of the most beautiful melodies ever imagined. Originally composed to entertain nights of insomnia, this is Bach’s only work of its kind, a golden goblet of sonic nourishment. The 43rd Season opening concert of Boulder Bach Festival features one of Colorado’s favorite musicians, pianist David Korevaar. He […]

$30 – $65

A Baroque Christmas: Handel’s Messiah

Dairy Arts Center - Gordon Gamm Theater 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO, United States

Fresh. Invigorated. Relevant. Powerful. One of the most adored works of music celebrating Christmas is approached with a fresh spirit by a collective of soloists and a chamber choir of Colorado’s finest professional singers. Boulder Bach Festival presents its CORE musical artists in a reimagined rendition of the Christmas portion from Handel’s Messiah. The performance […]

$30 – $65