Special Performance to Benefit Yale's Relief Efforts for the Japan Earthquake

Bach Collegium Japan

Masaaki Suzuki, artistic director and conductor

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music presents this concert to benefit Yale Disaster Relief Fund for Japan. All proceeds from ticket sales and donations received at the performance will be forwarded by Yale to the Red Cross-Japan Earthquake. Donations by credit card may also be made here where there is more information about Yale’s relief efforts. listen | learn more |

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J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

Hana Blazikova, Soprano
Rachel Nicholls, Soprano
Clint van der Linde, Countertenor
Gerd Türk, Tenor
Peter Kooij, Bass

Saturday, March 26 | 8 pm

Woolsey Hall (corner College and Grove)

Preconcert Talk by Markus Rathey | 7 pm

tickets: $15 ($8 students) at music.yale.edu or 203-432-4158

presented with support from Yale Glee Club

Bach Collegium Japan

Hana Blazikova

Rachel Nicholls

Clint van der Linde

Gerd Türk

Peter Kooij

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The renowned Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by its founder Masaaki Suzuki, will perform Bach’s Mass in B-Minor at Woolsey Hall in New Haven on Saturday, March 26 at 8pm. Markus Rathey, the Bach scholar and Associate Professor of music History at Yale, will give a preconcert talk at 7pm in the Presidents Room in Woolsey Hall. Tickets are $15/$8 students and are available at 203/432-4158 or online at music.yale.edu. The concert is presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its inspiring Music Director, with the aim of introducing Japanese audiences to period instrument performances of great works from the baroque period. Bach Collegium Japan is consists of both baroque orchestra and chorus, and their major activities include an annual concert series of Bach’s cantatas and a number of instrumental programs.

Since 1995 they have acquired a formidable international reputation as one of the world’s most exceptional ensembles of its kind through their acclaimed recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Church Cantatas for the BIS label. By November 2008 they had already released 41 CDs of J. S. Bach’s Church Cantatas.

Bach Collegium Japan has shared their noted interpretations on the international music scene with appearances at major festivals in Edinburgh, Santiago de Compostela, Tel Aviv, Leipzig and Melbourne. In recent seasons they have been heard in Europe’s major music centers including successful concerts in Italy and Spain.

Bach Collegium Japan made a highly successful North American debut in April 2003 with seven concerts in six cities all across the United States: at Carnegie Hall in New York, in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Boston, performing the St. Matthew and the St. John Passions of J. S. Bach. In May 2005, Bach Collegium Japan performed in Seoul, and in August, appeared in Germany at Ansbach Bachwhoche and Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.

In 2006, Bach Collegium Japan toured the US with an instrumental ensemble in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Bethlehem (PA), Washington D.C., New York (Zankel Hall/Carnegie). In May 2006, Bach Collegium Japan performed 10 concerts in five countries in Europe including the debut in Madrid, Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw, London at the Barbican performing the Mass in B-Minor and the Magnificat of J.S. Bach. In August 2007, Bach Collegium Japan performed the St. Matthew Passion at two festivals in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ansbach in Germany, and made their BBC Proms debut with a Cantata program.

Their November 2008 return to Europe included debuts in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, and in January 2009, Bach Collegium Japan appeared at the Canary Islands’ Music Festival.

Maestro Suzuki is Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting and Conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music. He and the Bach Collegium Japan are touring North America in March 2011 performing Bach’s Mass in B-Minor. In April, Maestro Suzuki will return to conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in New Haven, New York, and on tour in Italy.