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Major Bach Events - 2016

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Year 2016: Major Bach Events | Argentina | Australia | Austria | Belgium | Bolivia | Brazil | Canada | Chile | Finland | France | Germany | The Netherlands / Holland | Israel | Italy | Japan | New Zealand | Norway | Paraguay | Spain | Switzerland | UK | Uruguay | USA
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Bach Festivals: Bach Festivals & Cantata Series
Additions/changes/corrections to the schedule of concerts

 

January 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Tallinna Bachi nimeline muusikafestival

Talinn, Estonia

Jan 1-7, 2016

7th Annual Festival

BCW

Arizona Bach Festival

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Jan 8-24, 2016

7th Annual Festival

BCW

Internationaler Orgelwettbewerb um den Bachpreis der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

Jan 15-16, 2016

Organ Competition

Haller Bach-Tage

Halle, North Westphalia, Germany

Jan 29-Feb 14, 2016

53rd Annual Festival

BCW

February 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Bach Festival of Winter Park

Winter Park, FL, USA

Feb 12-28, 2016

81st Annual Festival

BCW

Bath Bachfest

Bath, England, UK

Feb 18-20, 2016

5th Annual Festival

BCW

Northwest Bach Festival

Spokane, WA, USA

Feb 23-Mar 6, 2016

37th Annual Festival

BCW

Kilgore College Bach Festival

Kilgore, TX, USA

Feb 27, 2016

62nd Annual Piano Competition

March 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

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Bach Society of Chaeleston: Bach Festival;

Charleston, SC, USA

Mar 4-6, 2016

4th Biennial Festival

BCW

International Bachdagen Brugge: Bachweekend

Bruges, Belgium

Mar 4-6, 2016

Annual Festival

BCW

Krakow Academy of Music: Bach Days, Kraków

Kraków, Poland

Mar 6-16, 2016

21st Annual Festival

BCW

Chicago Bach Project

Chicago, IL, USA

Mar 11, 2016

6th Annual Event: Mass in B Minor BWV 232

BCW

Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb "J.S. Bach"

Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Mar 11- 21, 2016

9th Biennial Competition

CONCORA Bach Festival

New Britain & Hartford, CT, USA

Mar 12-19, 2016

Annual Festival (EploraIing Bach’s St John Passion)

BCW

Baltimore Bach Marathon

Baltimore, MD, USA

Mar 13, 2016

40th Annual Marathon

BCW

Durango Bach Festival

Durango, CO, USA

Mar 13-19, 2016

9th Annual Festival

BCW

Starmount Presbyterian Church: Bach's Lunch

Greensboro, NC, USA

March 14-18, 2016

32nd Annual Festival:

BCW

Bachwoche in der Lutherischen Stadtkirche

Vienna, Austria

Mar 14-20, 2016

10th Annual Festival

BCW

Bachwoche Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Mar 14-21, 2016

18th Annual Festival

BCW

Bach & Jerusalem Festival

Jerusalem, Israel

Mar 17-21, 2016

1st Annual Festival

BCW

Blue Hill Bach

Blue Hill, ME, USA

Mar 18, 2016

Bach's Birthday Celebration

BCW

Bach Festival Arnstadt

Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany

Mar 18-25, 2016

12th Annual Festival

BCW

Junior Bach Festival

Berkeley, CA, USA

Mar 18-27, 2016

63rd Annual Festival

BCW

Thüringer Bachwochen

Thuringia, Germany

Mar 18-Apr 10, 2016

Annual Festival

BCW

NEPA Bach Festival

Scranton, PA, USA

Mar 19-20, 2016

31st Annual Festival

BCW

Bach in the Subways Day

150 cities in 40 countries

Mar 19-21, 2016

7th Annual Event

BCW

Southwest Bach Festival

Arcadia, CA, USA

Mar 20, 2016

5th Annual Competition

Festival Bach de Toul

Toul, France

Mar 20-May 29, Jun 19-Sep 20, 2016

7th Annual Festival

BCW

J.S. Bach Birthday

Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany

Mar 21, 2016

331st Anniversary of Bach's Birthday

Boston Bach Birthday

B, MA, USA

Mar 21, 2016

8th Annual Festival

BCW

BachFest Cochabamba

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Mar 21-May 1, 2016

9th Annual Festival

BCW

International Bach Chamber Music Festival

Riga, Latvia

Mar 22-24, 2016

16th Annual Festival: Spring

BCW

International Bach Festival

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain & the Netherlands

Mar 22-27, 2016

2nd Annual Festival (Pasión por Bach)

BCW

CoRéAM: Festival Bach à Pâques

Saint-Maixent-l'École, Deux-Sèvres, France

Mar 25-28, 2016

13th Annual Festival

BCW

April 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Baah Weekend at Kings Place

London, England

Apr 1-3, 2016

Annual Festival (previously: Bach Weekend at Southbank Centre)

BCW

Chico Bach Festival

Chico, CA, USA

Apr 1-3, 2016

14th Annual Festival

BCW

Whittier College J.S. Bach Festival

Whittier, CA, USA

Apr 1-3, 2016

79th Annual Festival

BCW

Académie d’Orgue et de Musique Ancienne

Chavagnes-en-Pailliers, France

Apr 3-6, 2016

23rd Edition

Long Beach Bach Festival

Long Beach, CA, USA

Apr 2-24, 2016

42nd Annual Festival

BCW

American Bach Society

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Apr 7-10, 2016

19th Biennial Meeting (J.S. Bach and the Confessional Landscape of His Time)

BCW

Bach Festival of Kalamazoo: Bach Festival Week

Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Apr 10-16, 2016

69th Season

BCW

Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival

Berea, OH, USA

Apr 15-17, 2016

84th Annual Festival

BCW

Bach Week Festival

Evanston & Chicago, IL, USA

Apr 22-May 6, 2016

43rd Annual Festival

BCW

Middlebury Bach Festival

Middlebury, VT, USA

Apr 29-May 1, 2016

6th Annual Festival

BCW

May 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Internationales Bachfest Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

May 4-8, 2016

26th Festival (Every 3 Years)

BCW

New England Bach Festival

Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

May 5-8, 2016

8th Biennial Festival

BCW

Bethlehem Bach Festival

Bethlehem, PA, USA

May 14-22, 2016

109th Annual Festival

BCW

Folles journées BACH de Lutry

Lutry, Vaud, Switzerland

May 18-22, 2016

4th Edition

BCW

June 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Passe ton Bach d’Abord

Toulouse, France

Jun 3-5, 2016

9th Annual Festival

BCW

Festival Bach du Schauenberg

Pfaffenheim, Alsace, France

Jun 3-5, 2016

8h Annual Festival

BCW

Hong Kong Bach Festival

Hong Kong

Jun 4, 2015

2nd Annual Festival

BCW

Bach Tage Mount Olive Lutheran Church

Minnesota, MN, USA

Jun 4-5, 2016

10th Annual Festival

BCW

Peoria Bach Festival

Peoria, Il, USA

Jun 5-12, 2016

14th Annual Festival

BCW

Budapest Bach-Weeks

Budapest, Hungary

Jun 6-12, 2016

27th Annual Festival

BCW

Victoria Bach Festival

Victoria, TX, USA

Jun 7-11, 2016

41th Annual Festival

BCW

Tilford Bach Festival

Tilford & Farnham, Surrey, England

Jun 10-12, 2016

64th Annual Festival

BCW

Bachfest Leipzig

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Jun 10-19, 2016

18th Annual Festival

BCW

Greifswalder Bachwoche

Greifswald, Germany

Jun 12-19, 2016

70th Annual Festival

BCW

Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival

Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Jun 12-19, 2016

24th Annual Festival

BCW

Martin Randall Travel: J.S. Bach Journey

London, England, UK to Thuringia & Saxony

Jun-14-20, 2016

7th Journey: Leipzig

BCW

Fredonia Opera House: Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival

Fredonia, NY, USA

Jun 17-19, 2016

21th Annual Festival

BCW

Bachtage Ohrdruf

Ohrdruf, Thuringia, Germany

Jun 19-26, 2016

4th Biennial Festival

BCW

Bach Biennale Weimar

Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Jun 22-Jul 10, 2016

5th Biennial Festival

BCW
BCW

Oregon Bach Festival

Eugene, OR, USA

Jun 23-Jul 10, 2016

46th Annual Festival

BCW

Hudson Valley BachFest

Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, USA

Jun 25-26, 2016

17th Annual Festival

BCW

July 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

St Anne’s Bach Festival

London, England, UK

Jul 1-29, 2015

21st Annual Festival

BCW

International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Jul 6-16, 2016

20th Bienial Competition. Disciplines: Organ, Singing, Cello

Lake Chelan Bach Fest

Chelan, WA, USA

Jul 8-16, 2016

35th Annual Festival

BCW

International Bachdagen Brugge: Zmmerweek

Bruges, Belgium

Jul 8-17, 2016

19th Annual Workshop & Festival

BCW

Festival De Bach à Bacchus

Meursault, France

Jul 16-19, 2016

31st Annual Festival of wine & music

BCW

Carmel Bach Festival

Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, USA

Jul 16-30, 2016

79th Annual Festival

BCW

Blue Hill Bach

Blue Hill, ME, USA

Jul 21-26, 2016

4th Annual Festival

BCW

Heidelberger Bachwoche

Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Jul 21-28, 2016

32nd Annual Festival

BCW

Aschaffenburger Bachtage

Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany

Jul 23-31, 2016

29th Annual Festival

BCW

Malaysia Bach Festival

PJ Old Town, Malaysia

Jul 25-27, 2016

2nd Annual Festival

BCW

Semana Bach

Asunción, Paraguay

Jul 25-29, 2016

2nd Annual Festival

BCW

Bach en Drôme des Collines / Festival de Saint Donat

Saint Donat, France

Jul 25-30, 2016

Annual Festival

BCW

Abbey Bach Festival

St. Benedict, OR, USA

Jul 27-29, 2016

45th Annual Festival

BCW

J.S. Bach Death

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Jul 28, 2016

266th Anniversary of Bach's Death

August 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Festival Bach en Combrailles

Combrailles, France

Aug 8-13, 2016

17th Annual Festival

BCW

Weimarer Bachkantaten-Akademie

Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Aug 10-21, 2016

3rd Academy; Master-class by Helmuth Rilling

BCW

Appenzeller Bachtage

Stein - Teufen - Trogen, Switzerland

Aug 17-21, 2016

2rd Biennial Festival

BCW

American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy - San Francisco Summer Bach Festival

San Francisco, CA, USA

Aug 5-14, 2016

7th Annual Festival

BCW

Köthener Bach Festtage

Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Aug 28-Sep 4, 2016

27th Biennial Festival

BCW

September 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Lüneburger Bachwoche

Lüneburg, Upper Saxony, Germany

Sep 3-10, 2016

30th Biennial Festival

BCW

Bach Festival Dordrecht

Dordrecht, the Netherlands

Sep 16-25, 2016

4th Biennial Festival

BCW

Bachfest Dresden
Neue Bachgesellschaft Bachfest

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Sep 23-Oct 6, 2016

91st Bach Festival of the New Bach Society (NBG)

BCW

Köthener Bach Festtage

Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Sep 25-27, 2016

26th Biennial Festival

BCW

Görlitzer Bachwoche

Görlitz, Saxony, Germany

Sep 28-Oct 3, 2016

Biennial Festival (?)

BCW

October 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Bachdag Amrsfoort

Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Oct 8, 2016

2nd Annual Festival

BCW

Festival Bach de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

Oct 30-Nov 27, 2016

19th Annual Festival

BCW

London Bach Festival

London, England, UK

Oct 30-Nov 14, 2016

26th Annual Festival

BCW

November 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

International Bach Chamber Music Festival

Riga, Latvia

Nov 4-16, 2016

16th Annual Festival: Autumn

BCW

Aachener Bachtage

Aachen, North Westphalia, Germany

Nov 6-20, 2016

43rd Annual Festival:

BCW

Le Festival Bach de Montréal

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Nov 11; Nov 18-Dec 4, 2016

10th Annual Festival

BCW

Bach Cantatas Mailing List

Nov 15, 2016

17th Annivesary

Back TO Bach

Turin, Italy

Nov 26-Dec 7, 2016

2nd Annual Festival

BCW

December 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Bach Cantatas Website

Dec 30, 2016

16th Anniversary

Unknown date/s and/or uncertain in 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

After 2016

Event

Country / Place

Dates

Description

BCW Page

Grand Rapids Bach Festival

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Mar-Apr 2017

11th Biennial Festival

BCW

Bachwoche Ansbach

Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany

Jul 28-Aug 17, 2017

Biennual Festival

BCW

Bach Music Festival of Canada

Exter, South Huron, Ontario, Canada

Jul 2017

4th Biennial Festival

BCW

Internationales Bachfest Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

May-Jun 2017

26th Festival (Every 3 Years)

BCW

Köthener Bach Festtage

Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Sep 22-24, 2017

28th Biennial Festival

BCW

Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists

New York City, NY, USA

Oct 2017

6th Biennial Competition

Helsinki Bach Week

Helsinki, Finland

Oct 2020

12th Festival (Every 5 Years)

BCW

Decsription painted in pink means that Festival is alrealisted in next years’s Major Bach Events: 2017
Decsription painted in red means that Festival is not planned to continue in 2017 and afterward

Prepared & Updated by Aryeh Oron (March 2014 - March 2020)


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