Before joining us in Montréal and Québec City, the guest artists are experiencing a particularly busy season starting in the summer of 2026: tours at the biggest European festivals, recordings, new creations, duo debuts. A tour d’horizon, artist by artist, of what’s happening. John Butt and the Dunedin Consort Scottish harpsichordist and conductor John Butt, […]
It’s 1984 and two men are having lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club. One of them is German musicologist Christoph Wolff, a leading Johann Sebastian Bach specialist. He was approached by the other to answer the question: what is the best edition of the Well-Tempered Clavier? Wolff’s guest is not a musicologist, music student, classical […]
What’s new in 2025? What they’re working on… Find out more at about the artists featured in our 2025 edition. Before offering an organ recital on November 16 at Saint Joseph’s Oratory, Mont-Royal, Joseph Ripka will also perform in August at St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork. Composer and titular organist at Saint Augustin church in Paris, […]
On March 11, 1829, at the age of 20, Felix Mendelssohn conducted the St Matthew Passion at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (also known as the Berliner Singakademie). For the public, it was a revelation. Indeed, after his death in 1750, Bach had fallen into near-total obscurity. News quickly spread, and Berlin’s music enthusiasts asked for […]
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Montreal, May 7th, 2025 The 19th edition of the Festival International Bach Montréal takes place from November 15 to December 7, 2025! With the tagline: ‘Better is good’, the 2025 line-up includes..: Large-scale sacred music The opening and closing concerts will bring together choir and orchestra to perform Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah and Bach’s St John […]
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What’s new, what’s in progress… Find out the latest news about the artists taking part in the 2024 edition! The orchestra conductors are off to a great start in their respective orchestras. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon is back at Geneva’s Cité Bleue, a 300-seat concert hall he took over in 2020 and which opened a few […]
Felix Mendelssohn: Elias Direction Samy Moussa, with Orchestra & Choir Festival International Bach Montréal The Festival International Bach Montréal officially opens with Felix Mendelssohn’s most baroque work, the famous oratorio Elias, depicting events in the life of the Prophet Elijah. The piece is composed in the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach and Händel, whose music […]
Montréal, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 The 18th edition of the Montreal Bach Festival is announced. The Festival will take place from November 16 to December 8, 2024. Among the highlights of the 2024 edition : the opening concert, given in Quebec City and Montreal (November 22 and 23) conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, world specialist […]
