Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart Presents ‘Bach and Latin America: Internationales Bachfest Stuttgart’
By Afton MarkayThe Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart has announced the first “Bach and Latin America: Internationales Bachfest Stuttgart” to take place March 9-23.
For the purposes of this article, only vocal works are included.
“Bach and Latin America” begins with Ariel Ramírez’s ‘Creole Mass.” Soloists are mezzo-soprano Cecilia Fontaine and baritone Matías Bocchio. Lydia Schimmer conducts.
Performance Date: March 9, 2025
Sopranos Miriam Feuersinger and Lucy de Butts, countertenors Alex Potter and Tobias Knaus, tenors Daniel Johannsen and Christoph Pfaller, along with basses Tobias Berndt and Matthias Winckhler solo in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Hans-Christoph Rademann conducts.
Performance Date: March 9, 2025
Soprano Mariana Flores pays homage to the women of Latin America through popular songs of the 20th century that translate their love, pain and joy into music. Flores is joined by instrumentalists Quito Gato and Romain Lecuyer.
Performance Date: March 10, 2025
Mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Friedrich Fasch and Christoph Graupner. Dorothee Oberlinger leads Ensemble 1700.
Performance Date: March 11, 2025
The Bach Consort Vienna is joined by soloists soprano Catalina Bertucci and Alina König Rannenberg, countertenor Benno Schachtner, tenors Francisco Brito and Jan Petryka, and bass Lisandro Abadie.
Performance Date: March 13, 2025
The international group, JSB Ensemble performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Motet BWV 225 “Sing to the Lord a new song” and “Jesu, der du meine Seele.” Kathy Saltzman Romey conducts.
Performance Date: March 14, 2025
Soprano Catalina Bertucci joins members of the Stuttgart Philharmonic in “Bachianas.” Mikhail Agrest conducts.
Performance Dates: March 19 to 22, 2025
Jos van Veldhoven directs the JSB Ensemble in Bach’s Chorale cantata “Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn,” BWV 96
Sinfonia from the cantata “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats” BWV 42, and Kyrie-Gloria-Mass in A, BWV 234.
Performance Date: March 15, 2025
Tenor Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich present “Sacred and secular music of the 16th and 17th centuries from Huehuetenango (Guatemala).”
Performance Date: March 15, 2025
Soprano Franziska Bobe and members of the Ensemble Stiftsbarock Stuttgart present Bach’s Cantata “I am pleased with my happiness” BWV 84. Kay Johannsen serves as organist and conductor.
Performance Date: March 16, 2025
Soloists in the master class for singing work with Yeree Suh, Alex Potter, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Patrick Grahl, and Peter Harvey.
Performance Date: March 16, 2025
Jonatan Alvarado returns to the stage with “Spanish songs far from home.”
Performance Date: March 16, 2025
The JSB Ensemble, under the direction of Hans Christoph Rademannn, perform Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios.
Performance Date: March 18, 2025
La Grande Chapelle and soloists soprano Irene Mas Salom and Raquel Mendes, mezzo-soprano Florencia Menconi, countertenor Daniel Folqué, tenors David Sagastume, Vincent Lièvre-Picard and Fernando Guimarães, and bass-baritone
Ferran Albrich perform 17th to early 18th centuries sacred works.
Performance Date: March 20, 2025
The JSB Ensemble with soprano Yeree Suh soprano and tenor Jonathan Mayenschein present a concert in honor of Bach’s birthday. Kathy Saltzman Romey and Hans-Christoph Rademann conduct.
Performance Date: March 21, 2025
The first closing concert stars soprano Emma Erchinger, mezzo-soprano Inés López Fernández, tenor Florian Eisentraut, and bass Olivier Nilles. They are joined by the Cantus Stuttgart and Bachorchester Stuttgart. Jörg-Hannes Hahn conducts.
Performance Date: March 23, 2025
The final closing concert features soprano Yeree Suh, countertenor Alex Potter, bass Tobias Berndt, along with the JSB Ensemble
and Gaechinger Cantorey. Hans-Christoph-Rademann conducts.
Performance Date: March 23, 2025
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