Enjoy a varied programme of chamber music from Royal College of Music musicians in the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room.

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Classical Coffee Mornings at the Royal Albert Hall: Eva Schockmel

Royal Albert Hall

A program of transcriptions and pieces for guitar across Europe and the centuries: Buxtehude, Scarlatti, Albéniz, Piazzolla, Ponce, Abels.

Virgile Barthe, guitar

Église Saint-Pierre

The Hamburger Abendblatt hailed a performance "that touched with its natural expressiveness," while the Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper described it as having a "magical flow" and "bewitching spell." In this interpretation of Voces Suaves & Gli Incogniti, the full richness of Dietrich Buxtehude's musical meditation on the Passion of Christ unfolds.

Voces Suaves & Gli Incogniti

Blaibach Concert Hall

The wind quintet WindSync embraces the classics and the growing contemporary repertoire with a fresh sensibility. Versatile and vibrant, the group plays “many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). In the span of one performance, they can cover vast musical ground from revitalized standards to freshly inked works to folk and songbook, the common thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human selves.

WindSync

Bethel United Methodist Church

Hailing from Adelaide, Alana Brook is Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral. Her first recital in Huddersfield Town Hall includes a selection of chorale preludes by women composers. Mendelssohn’s stately Sonata No. 2 is at the heart of the programme, with Vierne’s joyous Final at the close.

Alana Brook

Huddersfield Town Hall

Hailing from Adelaide, Alana Brook is Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral.

Ton Koopman Harpsichord & Organ Recital

Sumida Triphony Hall

Pacific Chorale’s chamber choir joins a string quintet to perform Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, Buxtehude’s Ad Manus, and more in a moving theatrical presentation leveraging music’s power to center the voices of refugees and the unhoused.

To the Hands

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

We are proud to feature Toronto organist Aaron James at the festival, as he presents a recital of Bach favourites, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, together with masterpieces of the north German repertory that Bach certainly knew. Mr. James will present his program on the dazzling Karl Wilhelm organ at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

Organ Recital

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

The event is free and you can just show up without a ticket. Please come in good time.

Organ concert

Musikhuset Aarhus

After winning the Concert Artists Guild and Fischoff competitions, WindSync established itself as a vibrant chamber ensemble performing wind quintet masterworks and championing new works by today’s composers. Experience their youthful, pop-rock musical sensibility!

Windsync

Newman Recital Hall (AHF 151)

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Grant Smith is a student of Ken Cowan. 


Grant Smith, Organ

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Study concert with guitar students under Jesper Sivebæk, Per Pålsson, and Henrik Bay Hansen

Study concert with guitar students

The Studio Hall

Emeritus faculty member William Peterson presents a program of music by J.S. Bach and Buxtehude on the Hill Memorial Organ. A local favorite, and former College Organist at Pomona College, Peterson has played concerts throughout the United States, and his programs have included “French Organ Music from the Time of World War I,” “The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach” and a concert that featured a first half with music by sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch and German composers and a second half with music by Erben, Krenek, and Kohn.

Organ Concert with William Peterson

Pomona College

LowDown

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Ton Koopman & Lucie Horsch Thuringian Bach Week

Kaufmannskirche

Internationally-renowned Festival favorite Vox Luminis returns with Dietrich Buxtehude’s remarkable meditation on the body of the crucified Christ. A work of deep profundity, the seven-cantata Membra Jesu nostri employs relatively limited vocal and instrumental forces—for the most part, five voice parts, two violins and basso continuo—to create an atmosphere of dramatic exultation. Be prepared to be entranced by Vox Luminis’s traversal of this most ambitious work by the master of Lübeck.

Vox Luminis: Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri

First Congregational Church

Florence Price was widely performed during the 1930’s, but by the fifties her work had dropped from view. Since the rediscovery of the full score for this concerto, pianist Michelle Cann’s ‘exquisite, authoritative’ performances are reintroducing Price to audiences and critics. Passionate, part Romantic, part bluesy, the Concerto is a small sample of Price’s repertory.</p>
<p>Conductor Tito Muñoz will open our final program with works by Buxtehude and Quinn Mason and close with Beethoven’s joyous Symphony No. 7. Beethoven called this work “one of the happiest products of my poor talents”— the perfect choice to conclude his 250th plus one, and Symphony Silicon Valley’s 20th anniversary season.

Always Time for More Beethoven

California Theatre

This program of soulful and moving compositions by four of the German Baroque’s most masterful composers begins with a 10-part setting of “Christ lag in Todesbanden” by Johann Pachelbel. Its seven movements unfold the deep richness of the composer’s reflections on the Easter text that Bach would later use for one of his earliest cantatas. And from the pen of one of Bach’s favorite composers, Dieterich Buxtehude, comes a bittersweet setting of the famous Eastertide chorale, “Jesu, meine Freude,” that would have been a great inspiration to Bach when he composed his own motet setting of the same verses several decades later. One of Bach’s earliest surviving cantatas, “Der Herr denket an uns” (Psalm 115: “The Lord is mindful of us”) is a joyful celebration of gratitude and blessedness that was probably composed to celebrate the wedding of the minister who had married Bach and his wife, Maria Barbara, about a year earlier. The Passion-themed orbit of this program finds its greatest resonance in a truly hypnotic and almost trance-inducing setting of the Saint Matthew Passion by Johann Theile. From its first movement to its last, Theile’s music mesmerizes the listener and grippingly captivates that attention until the final note.

Passion & Joy

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Davis Community Church

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Music played a crucial role in the Protestant Reformation, promoting congregational hymn singing and enhancing the rituals of worship with rousing festive melodies. John Butt and the Dunedin Consort offer a rich taste of works written to celebrate Christ’s birth, embracing sonorous rarities by Rosenmüller, Geist and Theile, the latter graced by a delightful lullaby, and a rousing instrumental Intrada by Samuel Scheidt, Chapel Master to the Margrave of Brandenburg. They close with JS Bach’s majestic cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV61, composed in 1714 for the first Sunday in Advent.

Dieterich Buxtehude

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 23, 2026

Dunedin Consort; John Butt director; Zoë Brookshaw soprano; Joanna Songi soprano; Sarah Anne Champion alto; Guy Cutting tenor; Chris Webb bass · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Oct 18, 2026

Classical Coffee Mornings at the Royal Albert Hall: Eva Schockmel · Royal College of Music

Jul 17, 2026

Virgile Barthe, guitar · Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier

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