The Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) Artistic Director Search Committee is pleased to announce Kazem Abdullah as the newest candidate for the OBF artistic director position. Abdullah will conduct Bach’s Mass in B Minor on June 21 and present a modern chamber orchestra concert on June 18, which includes Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, contemporary composer Jessie …
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Dear OBF Donors, Artists, and Fans, We are writing to inform you that Julian Wachner has withdrawn his name from consideration as a candidate for the Oregon Bach Festival artistic director position. The artistic director search will continue through the summer and remains a prominent part of the 2022 season. Additional Festival plans are solidly …
UPDATE: On March 23, Julian Wachner withdrew his name from consideration to be the next OBF artistic director. DEFINING WORKS AND CHORAL LEGACIES LEAD THE WAY ASOREGON BACH FESTIVALCELEBRATES VOICE IN ITS 2022 SEASON The internationally renowned Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) and the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance are pleased to announce …
SFYCA ALUMNI PROFILES SFYCA celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2023. While it is still a way off, planning is already underway to include an alumni reception and featured performances by alumni, alongside the 2023 SFYCA participants. If you are an alum, or know someone who is, please email Education & Operations Coordinator, at bharris7@uoregon.edu. Today, Katherine …
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SFYCA alum, Jack Barton (’10, ’11) along with his brother Dan share their joys of working together and how SFYCA helped shaped his path to success Classically trained pianists and self-proclaimed childhood choir nerds, brothers Dan and Jack grew up sharing stereos, piano teachers, and bunk beds. Growing up in Fort Collins, Colorado they developed …
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Auditions are now open for OI 2021 The Oregon Bach Festival Organ Institute led by Grammy-winning organist Paul Jacobs is now accepting applications for the 2021 Season. During this difficult time with so many artistic concerts and programs cancelled and postponed, we saw an opportunity to make this one portion of Oregon Bach Festival happen. …
Dear Friends, I am writing to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to postpone both the 2020 Oregon Bach Festival and the selection of our new Artistic Director until the summer of 2021, with the health and safety of our patrons, musicians and community foremost in our minds. I know that …
Those of us musicians who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s held the great composer Krzysztof Penderecki in the very high esteem reserved in the twentieth century for a few very special composers like Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. We eagerly listened to and studied his groundbreaking works such as the Threnody to Victims …
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium Experiencing The Passion of Yeshua Over the course of two and a half weeks, from June 25 and July 13, more than 100 composers and performers from around the world converged for a unique experience of collaborative performance at the Oregon Bach Festival’s Composer Symposium (OBFCS) directed by renowned composer …