Bach festival
The background
Bach festival
A whole weekend of concerts by the Netherlands Bach Society in a festival to celebrate our centenary!
“At this festival, there is a Bach to suit everyone!“
On Friday evening, the celebration gets off to a festive start with the versatile artist Adrian Schvarzstein. Along with our musicians and the audience, he will create a circus-like performance based on a Bach cantata.
On Saturday, we will be celebrating Bach’s inventiveness, seen through the eyes of later generations of composers and musicians. Our ensemble, conducted by Shunske Sato, will enter into an improvised jam battle with violinist Tim Kliphuis and his trio, blurring the boundaries between genres. After all, Bach is not sacred. The Goldberg Variations form the soundtrack for a puppet show, we spotlight the highlights of All of Bach and treat Bach fans to concerts by our own ensemble and our friends.
On Sunday afternoon, Bach himself will drop by for the final concert. Well, in any case Bach 2.0: in the person of the Swiss conductor, organist, composer and improviser Rudolf Lutz, who will get the audience involved in the festive finale. At this festival, there is a Bach to suit everyone!