Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy

01/30/2024

Applications for the 2024 Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy are due tomorrow! Submit: https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy/audition/

01/26/2024

Looking to do more reading this year? Join the OBF Book Club!

In its 3rd season, OBF's Book Club has over 100 members across the globe. Each interactive session is 1 hour in length over Zoom with informed and insightful guest hosts. Selected books connect with the Festival's 2024 programming and for most books, the author is present for Q&A during the last session.

Sign up today. It's free! www.oregonbachfestival.org/bookclub/

01/22/2024

There's still time to audition for the 2024 Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy! Submit your application by January 31st. More information at https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy/

01/08/2024

Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy for Historical Performance Practice! Submit your application by January 31st. Sessions available for Baroque and Classical focuses. Free tuition, room, and board. More at https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy/

07/17/2023

Gemma New leads a program of Alberga, Bach, Ravel and Vaughan Williams at the Oregon Bach Festival with the OBF Modern Orchestra, pianist Angela Hewitt, soprano Susanna Phillips, baritone Jarrett Ott and the University of Oregon Chamber Choir on stage at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, on July 16!

07/12/2023

01/26/2023

Berwick Academy auditions are open through January 30. This is a great opportunity to work with talented faculty from around the world including Jos van Veldhoven from the Netherlands who with be joining as Guest Director. The dates of the Academy are June 26-July 8. For the 2023 season, the focus will be on the classical era and tuition, room and board are free.

Visit the link below for more information.
https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy/

01/09/2023

Great article featuring Berwick Academy bass faculty, Kristin Zoernig

Kristin Zoernig's 1648 upright bass has an incredible history, but she says the uniqueness of the tone quality this bass possesses is its greatest gift.

12/01/2022

Berwick Academy 2023 is accepting auditions. We are pleased to announce that Jos van Veldhoven with be joining as Guest Director. Dates are June 26-July 8. For the 2023 season, the focus will be on the classical era.

https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy/

11/14/2022

Premiering Today - Nov 14! Check out this performance by our very own Berwick Academy Woodwind Faculty on . Hosted by BA Oboe faculty, Debra Nagy and joined by fellow BA wind faculty Marie Ross, clarinet; Stephen Schultz, flute; Marc Vallon, bassoon; and Todd Williams.

Video & Audio episodes at salonera.org — with Stephen Schultz
Marc Vallon
Todd Williams
Marie Ross
Debra Nagy
Les Délices

09/20/2022

We have a lovely alumni story to share with you! Back in the Berwick Academy's 2018 season, three Berwick Academy participants began a nightly tradition of meeting after rehearsals to play fiddle tunes on baroque violins well into the night. Through these spontaneous nocturnal jam sessions, the Berwick Fiddle Consort was born.

These creative alumni: Lydia Becker (2018), Julia Connor (2018), and Sarah Bleile Douglass (2017, 2018) quickly found that performing 17th and 18th-century music from the British Isles and Canada on the kinds of instruments that were used at that time opened up new dimensions of sound, rhythm, and musical expression. BFC presented its debut concert at the 2019 Boston Early Music Festival Fringe, and has since been featured as Pegasus Rising Artists and NYS Baroque Young Artists, as well as the Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP) Summer Concert season in both 2020 and 2021. Other performances include appearances at the Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston, the Sudbury Historical Society, and the Shutesbury Athletic Club. BFC has also been an ensemble-in-residence at Avaloch Farm in Boscawen, NH. To learn more about BFC visit https://www.berwickfiddleconsort.com/about

For more information about other BA alumni visit our new BA Alumni webpage - https://oregonbachfestival.org/berwick-academy-alumni/

Berwick Fiddle Consort