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 …