The Bethlehem Bach Festival is America's oldest Bach festival. With the Mass in B Minor as its centerpiece, visitors travel internationally to our beautiful city annually to be engaged by the 95-voice professional-quality volunteer choir, professional Bach Festival Orchestra, and world-renowned soloists under the direction of Greg Funfgeld.

Fridays at 12 noon: FREE performance: Bach Outdoors! Principal violist Paul Miller and friends present arrangements of some of Bach's most beloved masterpieces on "modern" instruments. At 4 pm: Chamber Music in the Saal of the Moravian Museum: Ronn McFarlane, lute and Mindy Rosenfeld, flute and recorder present Baroque, Renaissance, and traditional Celtic music. "Bach at 4" features members of The Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra: Festival premiere of Bach's Cantata 111, Was Mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit and other works. At 8 pm: "Bach at 8" (full choir and orchestra): Bach Cantatas 146 and 149; Haydn's Second Concerto for Horn in D Major, Anthony Cecere principal horn. Saturdays at 10:30 am: Ifor Jones Chamber Music Concert. Premiere of a new work by distinguished composer Gwyneth Walker, The Day Is Done, performed by Bel Canto Youth Chorus and members of The Bach Festival Orchestra. J.S. Bach: the rarely heard Concerto for Three and Four Harpsichords BWV 1064-1065. 2:30 pm: Mass in B Minor, the centerpiece of our Festival since 1900. 7:00 pm: Zimmermann's Coffee House offers chamber music "café style" in a relaxed setting, with German food and drink, and features young artists-chosen by audition-with Greg Funfgeld and friends.

Bethlehem, PA:

-City Hall Plaza

-Incarnation of Our Lord Church

-The Saal of the Moravian Museum

-Peter Hall, Moravian College

-Packer Memorial Church, Lehigh University

-Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University

May 10 - May 18, 2019

Greg Funfgeld

Classical

$9 to $58

Telephone: 610-866-4382 x115 or x110