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

Alana Brook

Huddersfield Town Hall

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.

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.

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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

WindSync

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

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.

Bethel United Methodist Church

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.

Dieterich Buxtehude

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 14, 2026

WindSync · Coastal Concerts

Mar 28, 2026

Voces Suaves & Gli Incogniti · Konzerthaus Blaibach

Past events

Mar 10, 2025

Alana Brook · Opera North

Mar 10, 2025

Alana Brook · Kirklees Town Halls

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