The superlative organist, a long-time OBF favorite, tackled Bach’s late masterpiece on Central Lutheran Church’s Brombaugh organ.
July 28, 2025Amy Adams
OBF artistic partner Craig Hella Johnson and guest pianist Awadagin Pratt combined music by Samuel Barber, Jesse Montgomery, Arvo Pärt and Vaughan Williams.
July 27, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The choral superstar and OBF artistic partner led the OBF chorus and modern orchestra – along with a few hundred surprise guests – through a heartfelt performance of his exquisitely crafted “fusion oratorio.”
July 24, 2025Daryl Browne
Two OBF concerts, two venues – Mt. Angel Abbey and Beall Hall – and two totally distinct choral experiences with their own triumphs and challenges.
July 17, 2025Angela Allen
Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, A.B. Spellman, and a jazz trio joined forces to bring Jeff Scott's award-winning homage to Bach and Coltrane back to Oregon.
The actor, along with four singers and the OBF Baroque Orchestra directed by Julian Perkins, performed the Malcolm Bruno reconstruction of Bach's "pocket passion."
July 14, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
Mezzo Fleur Barron and baritone Elliot Madore joined the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Modern Orchestra for a concert of stellar performances.
July 14, 2025Angela Allen
The keyboardist, composer, and mathematician discusses his storied background; his performances of Bach and his own music at this year’s summer festivals; the church he bought in France; and why he never practices.
July 9, 2025Amy Adams
The mezzo-soprano (star of several OBF and Chamber Music Northwest concerts this year) and pianist (co-artistic director of CMNW) delivered a stirring “Liederabend” concert at Beall Hall.
July 8, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The composer reflects on the playfulness of Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi–and their impact on her recent concerto, performed at Oregon Bach Festival and Chamber Music Northwest this summer.
Shunske Sato, violinist and master of Historically Informed Practice, led a wonderfully fresh rendition of Bach’s “six concertos for several instruments” in a collaboration between Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival.
June 30, 2025Angela Allen
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the concert hall, the well-tuned home of many Oregon Bach Festival concerts.
June 5, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
Britt Music & Arts Festival, In A Landscape, Oregon Bach Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Makrokosmos Project–plus “Celilo Falls,” esperanza spalding, two from Cascadia Composers, and the return of “Bird Songs of Opera.”
May 29, 2025Daryl Browne
From Craig Hella Johnson’s “Considering Matthew Shepard” to a reconstruction of Bach’s “St. Markus Passion” to a balletic “Carmina Burana,” and plenty more.
May 16, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
The composer lays out the history, mission, and philosophy of the OBFCS, now in its 30th year bringing together composer-performers.
