Established in 2019, the Lillian and Maurice Barbash International Bach Competition is the most important event of its kind to launch in decades. Its distinguished winners have garnered international praise through honors and competitions at the highest peaks of musical artistry and virtuosity. The Washington Bach Consort presented the competition’s inaugural winner Rachell Ellen Wong on our Chamber Series in 2022. Beginning with the forthcoming 2024–2025 season, we shall present the winner of this prestigious competition annually, showcasing for our audience the pinnacle of international solo Bach performance. In September 2024, we will present the winner of the fifth-annual Barbash competition, Emmanuel Coppey (France), who will enchant us with an exciting program of works by our favorite composer!

Emmanuel Coppey, violin

Subscriptions to the 2024–2025 Season are on sale now!

Subscriptions are currently on sale to the general public. The 2024–25 season, opening Wednesday, September 21 with Emmanuel Coppey, winner of the Lilian and Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition, features five large scale subscription concerts at some of the region’s finest venues and nine chamber series concerts on Friday evenings at Live! at 10th & G and on Saturday evenings at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We’ve made it easier than ever to purchase a subscription series of three or more concerts at any time by clicking here or by calling the office.

Director’s Series concerts include admission to a pre-concert lecture; seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

A subscription to the Washington Bach Consort allows you to enjoy performances throughout the season, including the Director’s Series and the Chamber Series at a discount off the single ticket price.

Priority Seating

Subscribers receive first choice in seat selection.

Additional Tickets

Wish to bring guests? Subscribers may purchase additional tickets throughout the season at the discounted subscription rate.

Ticket Exchange

If unable to attend a performance, subscribers may exchange tickets for another concert during the season.

Ticket Donations

Prior to a performance, subscribers may return tickets marked “donated” and receive a receipt for tax purposes for the value of the tickets.

$20 under 40

Under 40? Score $20 tickets to Washington Bach Consort concerts! Enjoy world-class performances without breaking the bank. Grab your seat now and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Bach’s music!

French and English baroque masters such as Jean-Philippe Rameau, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Marin Marias, and Henry Purcell wrote a great deal of music that connects us with early-modern sensibilities of the supernatural via the legends of classical mythology. Our musicians will “make the olden world appear” through an enchanting evening of music celebrating the goddess Diana’s starlit night!

Margot Rood, soprano
Margaret Owens, oboe, recorders
Sarah Cunningham, viola da gamba
Kevin Payne, theorbo
Leon Schelhase, harpsichord and director

Subscriptions to the 2024–2025 Season are on sale now!

Subscriptions are currently on sale to the general public. The 2024–25 season, opening Wednesday, September 21 with Emmanuel Coppey, winner of the Lilian and Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition, features five large scale subscription concerts at some of the region’s finest venues and nine chamber series concerts on Friday evenings at Live! at 10th & G and on Saturday evenings at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We’ve made it easier than ever to purchase a subscription series of three or more concerts at any time by clicking here or by calling the office.

Director’s Series concerts include admission to a pre-concert lecture; seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

A subscription to the Washington Bach Consort allows you to enjoy performances throughout the season, including the Director’s Series and the Chamber Series at a discount off the single ticket price.

Priority Seating

Subscribers receive first choice in seat selection.

Additional Tickets

Wish to bring guests? Subscribers may purchase additional tickets throughout the season at the discounted subscription rate.

Ticket Exchange

If unable to attend a performance, subscribers may exchange tickets for another concert during the season.

Ticket Donations

Prior to a performance, subscribers may return tickets marked “donated” and receive a receipt for tax purposes for the value of the tickets.

$20 under 40

Under 40? Score $20 tickets to Washington Bach Consort concerts! Enjoy world-class performances without breaking the bank. Grab your seat now and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Bach’s music!

Heinrich Schütz was arguably the foremost composer of the early-baroque German motet and the most important German composer before J.S. Bach. After three years of study in Venice with the great Giovanni Gabrieli, Schütz brought early Italian baroque style to German-speaking churches. Vocalists of the Washington Bach Consort under the direction of Dana Marsh will delve into Schütz’s finest collections: first, the incomparable Cantiones Sacrae—a cycle of motets with an entirely unique musical language—not only when compared with other composers, but as Joshua Rifkin has put it, even when compared with any other collection of Schütz’s own work during his lifetime. Schütz’s Geistliche Chormusik offers some of his most richly popular motets, which reveal the composer at the top of his craft.

Margarita Brose and Chuck Reifel & Janie Kinney, underwriters

Subscriptions to the 2024–2025 Season are on sale now!

Subscriptions are currently on sale to the general public. The 2024–25 season, opening Wednesday, September 21 with Emmanuel Coppey, winner of the Lilian and Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition, features five large scale subscription concerts at some of the region’s finest venues and nine chamber series concerts on Friday evenings at Live! at 10th & G and on Saturday evenings at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We’ve made it easier than ever to purchase a subscription series of three or more concerts at any time by clicking here or by calling the office.

Director’s Series concerts include admission to a pre-concert lecture; seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

A subscription to the Washington Bach Consort allows you to enjoy performances throughout the season, including the Director’s Series and the Chamber Series at a discount off the single ticket price.

Priority Seating

Subscribers receive first choice in seat selection.

Additional Tickets

Wish to bring guests? Subscribers may purchase additional tickets throughout the season at the discounted subscription rate.

Ticket Exchange

If unable to attend a performance, subscribers may exchange tickets for another concert during the season.

Ticket Donations

Prior to a performance, subscribers may return tickets marked “donated” and receive a receipt for tax purposes for the value of the tickets.

$20 under 40

Under 40? Score $20 tickets to Washington Bach Consort concerts! Enjoy world-class performances without breaking the bank. Grab your seat now and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Bach’s music!

J.S. Bach’s cello suites are among the composer’s most popular, celebrated works, and like the unaccompanied partitas and sonatas for violin, their performance evokes a depth of intimacy that is hard to match in any other repertory. Washington Bach Consort cellist, Wade Davis, noted for his engaging, high-energy performances of these pieces, will offer the first and third suites in what promises to be a captivating evening!

Wade Davis, cello

Subscriptions to the 2024–2025 Season are on sale now!

Subscriptions are currently on sale to the general public. The 2024–25 season, opening Wednesday, September 21 with Emmanuel Coppey, winner of the Lilian and Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition, features five large scale subscription concerts at some of the region’s finest venues and nine chamber series concerts on Friday evenings at Live! at 10th & G and on Saturday evenings at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We’ve made it easier than ever to purchase a subscription series of three or more concerts at any time by clicking here or by calling the office.

Director’s Series concerts include admission to a pre-concert lecture; seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

A subscription to the Washington Bach Consort allows you to enjoy performances throughout the season, including the Director’s Series and the Chamber Series at a discount off the single ticket price.

Priority Seating

Subscribers receive first choice in seat selection.

Additional Tickets

Wish to bring guests? Subscribers may purchase additional tickets throughout the season at the discounted subscription rate.

Ticket Exchange

If unable to attend a performance, subscribers may exchange tickets for another concert during the season.

Ticket Donations

Prior to a performance, subscribers may return tickets marked “donated” and receive a receipt for tax purposes for the value of the tickets.

$20 under 40

Under 40? Score $20 tickets to Washington Bach Consort concerts! Enjoy world-class performances without breaking the bank. Grab your seat now and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Bach’s music!

From the 17th century until World War II, the Portuguese Israelite Synagogue of Amsterdam was the nexus of the Western Sephardic diaspora. This program commemorates the 350th anniversary of its inauguration with musical celebrations and baroque spectacle from its opening. An architectural marvel, the Esnoga was the most conspicuous symbol of religious freedom offered to Jews in a Protestant Republic anywhere in Europe. Ian Pomerantz and Alicia dePaolo will highlight the August 1675 musical celebrations with the North American premiere of the dedicatory cantata, Shir Hanukat Beth Hamiqdash. Recently discovered in the manuscripts of Cantor Joseph ben Sarfati, with text by the Portuguese-born Rabbi Rev. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, it is a lasting testimony to tolerance, the Dutch Golden Age, and the resilience of the Portuguese Jewish community.

Alicia DePaolo, soprano
Ian Pomerantz, bass-baritone

Subscriptions to the 2024–2025 Season are on sale now!

Subscriptions are currently on sale to the general public. The 2024–25 season, opening Wednesday, September 21 with Emmanuel Coppey, winner of the Lilian and Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition, features five large scale subscription concerts at some of the region’s finest venues and nine chamber series concerts on Friday evenings at Live! at 10th & G and on Saturday evenings at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

We’ve made it easier than ever to purchase a subscription series of three or more concerts at any time by clicking here or by calling the office.

Director’s Series concerts include admission to a pre-concert lecture; seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

A subscription to the Washington Bach Consort allows you to enjoy performances throughout the season, including the Director’s Series and the Chamber Series at a discount off the single ticket price.

Priority Seating

Subscribers receive first choice in seat selection.

Additional Tickets

Wish to bring guests? Subscribers may purchase additional tickets throughout the season at the discounted subscription rate.

Ticket Exchange

If unable to attend a performance, subscribers may exchange tickets for another concert during the season.

Ticket Donations

Prior to a performance, subscribers may return tickets marked “donated” and receive a receipt for tax purposes for the value of the tickets.

$20 under 40

Under 40? Score $20 tickets to Washington Bach Consort concerts! Enjoy world-class performances without breaking the bank. Grab your seat now and immerse yourself in the brilliance of Bach’s music!