Bach Akademie Charlotte

Charlotte Bach Festival 2023

June 07, 2023 - June 14, 2023

Description

The angel chorus roused the shepherds to announce the birth of the Christ child – an echo of prophecies of old, when Isaiah described the angels attending heaven’s throne with their three-fold cry, “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabbaoth!” Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God of Hosts!”

The 2023 Charlotte Bach Festival brings the joy of Christmas to our annual June festival. And there’s no more joyful music than Bach at Christmas.

This year’s festival features all six parts of Bach’s magnificent Christmas Oratorio. After kicking off the festival with the popular Bach at the Brauhaus at The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery on Friday, June 9th, we perform Parts I and II of the Christmas Oratorio on Saturday, June 10 at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.

On Sunday, June 11 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Clive Driskill-Smith, one of the leading organists of his generation, presents a concert on the magnificent Van Ness Hamrick Organ, C. B. Fisk Opus 13.

Parts III and IV of the Christmas Oratorio are the subject of The Bach Experience at Myers Park United Methodist Church’s Jubilee Hall on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Monday night features a very special recital by our talented Vocal Fellows at Myers Park's intimate Francis Chapel. And we close out the festival with Parts V and VI of the Christmas Oratorio on Tuesday, June 13, back at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.