Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy

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

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/

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/

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/

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!

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/

Great article featuring Berwick Academy bass faculty, Kristin Zoernig

How Kristin Zoernig Came to Possess a 375-Year-Old Bass Likely Played at Lincoln’s Inauguration | Strings Magazine 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.

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/

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