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Bach! Soon!
Sadly we have made the decision to postpone the 2020 New England Bach Festival
due to Covid-19.
Information about the
Tenth New England Bach Festival
is still below
but the programme may change due to future booking availability.
2021....We'll be Bach!
TBA 2021 |
| Four days of the best Baroque Music. |
The tenth New England promises a wonderful range of concerts and some fabulous musicians playing lots of Bach and other baroque masters, and a few surprises.
There will be! The organ crawl! There are sights to see and songs to sing!
Austral Harmony is providing a Bach Bouquet with their specially crafted floral renditions. David Drury is channeling Bach from Beyond with his organ improvisations whilst EphenStephen presents the Goldberg Variations.
Baroque infused jazz with Bach and the Edge of Sky, Camerata Antica takes a journey through 17th Century Songbooks, and Shaun Ng (viola da gamba) and Diana Weston (clavier) provides an intimate soiree.
Be sure not to miss Sydney Consort as they bid you all au revoir and the devine magic of Evensong.
Oh...and the peasants are revolting at the beautiful Hanna Arcade!
Benjamin Thorn
Artistic Director
The New England Bach Festival acknowledges the support of the UNE School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences and the Regional Australia Bank.
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The New England Bach Festival is a biennial event in Armidale NSW Australia dedicated to the best in baroque music with a focus on that of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Armidale, in the northern tablelands of New South Wales, is a city of 24,000 inhabitants, a university (The University of New England), two cathedrals, the New England Regional Art Museum which houses the renowned Howard Hinton Collection and The Museum of Printing and a lively musical life
It was the third City of the Arts in NSW.The aim of the New England Bach Festival is to bring the best available Australian and overseas baroque performers to Armidale.
Recent festivals have also included improvised concerts that pay tribute to that aspect of Bach’s genius.
If you would like to learn more about Johann Sebastian Bach visit www.jsbach.org.. |
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| Date |
Thursday 7 May - 7:30pm |
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| Event |
Sydney Consort - Farewell Concert - Bach and Sons
Music from the Bach family for violin, recorder and harpsichord by JS, WF, CPE and JC Bach, and a little Handel on the side.
Stan Kornel, Monika Kornel, Alana Blackburn.
Sydney Consort |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $30.00 | Concession $20.00 |
| Date |
Friday 8 May - 12:30pm |
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David Drury - Channeling Bach
Brilliant organist David Drury in a program of Bach, and improvisation. What David can spontaneously do with a simple theme has to heard to be believed.
David's Bio |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $20.00 | Concession $15.00 |
| Date |
Friday 8 May - 7:30pm |
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Thorough Bass - Bach Family and Friends
Shaun Ng (viola da gamba) and Diana Weston (clavier)
Step into the home of Johann Sebastian Bach and meet some of his family and friends – through music of course. Bach loved spontaneous soirées, often with his own family and friends making the music and we’d like to do the same.
So here is a program Bach may well approve of – with sonatas by Bach himself, his second son Carl Philip Emanuel, family friend and brilliant gambist Carl Friedrich Abel, and (not yet born but let’s pretend) John Christian, the youngest.
www.thoroughbass.com.au |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $30.00 | Concession $20.00 |
| Date |
Saturday 9 May - 10:30am |
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| Event |
Peasant Cantata
A dramatized version of the cantata that explores the vagaries of dealing with the taxman.
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| Location |
Hanna’s Arcade
126 Beardy St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Just Turn Up! |
FREE |
| Date |
Saturday 9 May - 12:30pm |
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EphenStephen Guitar Duo (Stephen Tafra and Stephen Thorneycroft)
Includes Marcello/Bach Concerto in dmin; Bach French Suite and extracts from the Goldberg Variations.
www.ephenstephen.com/ |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $20.00 | Concession $15.00 |
| Date |
Saturday 9 May - 2:30pm |
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The Armidale Organ Crawl
An ambulatory concert featuring four organs (Uniting Church, St Paul’s, St Peter’s, St Mary and Joseph) featuring Phillip Gearing, David Drury, Lena Schmalz and Warwick Dunham, and lots of Bach. Like a pub crawl but with an organ recital in each church rather than a beer in each pub.
2:30pm starting in Uniting Church |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $30.00 | Concession $20.00 |
| Date |
Saturday 9 May - 7:30pm |
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Austral Harmony – Bach and Florid Song
Jane Downer, Anna Sandstrom, Margaret Caley, Phillip Gearing, Camilla Tafra, Sarah Meagher, Alana Blackburn
Specially devised for the New England Bach Festival, “Bach & Florid Song” embraces a repertory of floral themes, flowery language, florid obbligatos, and intricately ornamented song, with attention drawn to Bach’s perceptive musical expression of poetic texts.
Austral Harmony |
| Location |
The Armidale School - Memorial Hall
Barney Street (cnr Douglas Street), Armidale, NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $30.00 | Concession $20.00 |
| Date |
Sunday 10 May - 12:30pm |
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Camerata Antica – The Mysterious Carlo G: exploring C17th songbooks
Anna Sandstrom, Matthew Manchester, David Drury
Intriguing music for Soprano, Cornetto and Organ from the seventeenth century juxtaposed with music by Bach.
Camerata Antica |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $20.00 | Concession $15.00 |
| Date |
Sunday 10 May - 2:30pm |
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Bach and the Edge of Sky
Baroque jazz fusion brilliantly performed by Warwick Dunham, Stephen Tafra, Stephen Thorneycroft, Sarah Thorneycroft, David van Tongeren and Katie Hazelwood. Music that appeals to body, mind and soul. A similar concert by the same performers was the hit of the last festival. |
| Location |
Uniting Church
114 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Tickets Available Here |
Full $30.00 | Concession $20.00 |
| Date |
Sunday 10 May - 5:00pm, |
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Festival Evensong
The conclusion to this beautiful festival. Bach’s sacred music performed in the context for which it was written. |
| Location |
St Peter’s Cathedral
122 Rusden St, Armidale NSW 2350 |
| Just Turn Up! |
FREE |
Take the time to enjoy the spectacular New Englang countryside in Autumn.
Browse through an antique store, enjoy a meal at one of the many boutique cafes and restaurants or enjoy some time at one of our spectacular vineyards.
Most of all enjoy the music!
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