Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Bach Akademie Australia: Bach’s Brandenburg – Part I

Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…
Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Bach Akademie Australia: Bach’s Brandenburg – Part II

Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…

Event Series Bach – The Mind of a Genius

Bach Akademie Australia: Bach – The Mind of a Genius

Paddington Uniting Church 395 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia
What defines a genius? Genius is described as one who has exceptional intellectual or creative power, a statement that applies to many a great composer. However, even amongst geniuses, Bach stands apart from his contemporaries. No one before or after him reached his level of excellence relative to their own…
Event Series Bach – The Mind of a Genius

Bach Akademie Australia: Bach – The Mind of a Genius

Our Lady of Dolours Church, Chatswood 94 Archer Street, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
What defines a genius? Genius is described as one who has exceptional intellectual or creative power, a statement that applies to many a great composer. However, even amongst geniuses, Bach stands apart from his contemporaries. No one before or after him reached his level of excellence relative to their own…

Bach Akademie Australia: In the Steps of Bach – The Road to Lübeck

Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle 52 Church Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
It was the autumn of 1705. A young 20 year old Bach began a journey on foot of almost 400 kilometres from Arnstadt in the heart of Germany, to Lübeck near the Baltic coast. Who would undertake such a gruelling expedition? Only one such as J.S. Bach, whose desire to…