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“A Top-10 Classical Music Festival” - The Boston Globe. With its world renowned musicians and baroque interpreters, this is a can’t miss festival.

NYC: May 2026
Portland, Maine: June 2026

08/12/2026

🎶 SURPRISE! SEPTEMBER POP-UP CONCERT!

Join us for a special performance that explores the enormous reach of Baroque music and showcases the way its spirit resonates across centuries to this day. We are delighted to announce an upcoming concert performance at the beautiful Crewe Center with beloved Bach Virtuosi Festival artists on Thursday, September 10 at 7pm!

From virtuosic instrumental works to some of the Baroque era’s most expressive vocal music, this is an evening of music that highlights the imagination, intimacy, and emotional range of this extraordinary musical era.

Emi Ferguson, flute; Arthur Haas, harpsichord; Nathan Whittaker, cello; and Emily Donato, soprano, come together for this intimate program featuring works by Bach, Purcell, Handel, Vivaldi, and Strozzi. The evening will also take you beyond the Baroque with Satie’s evocative Gnossienne No. 5 and a reimagining of The Beatles’ “Yesterday" that may just steal your heart.

✨ Bach and the Baroque Imagination
🗓️ Thursday, September 10th at 7pm
📍Crewe Center for the Arts - USM Portland Campus

🔗 for TICKETS
https://porttix.com/whats-on/bach-and-the-baroque-imagination/

More information about the evening’s program on our website - www.bachvirtuosifestival.org

07/22/2026

Hello Friends of Bach Virtuosi Festival!

Missing the beauty and brilliance of J.S. Bach? We have a delightful treat for your listening pleasure! This week, Maine Public Classical will air an “encore” broadcast of one of our 2025 performances on their program Maine Stage with Emily Duncan Willson.

https://www.mainepublic.org/maine-stage

What: Great Performances: The Artistry of Bach Virtuosi Festival
When: Wednesday, July 22 from 8pm to 10am
Where: Maine Public Classical, 104.1 FM

LISTEN ONLINE

https://www.mainepublic.org/maine-public-classical-schedule-and-how-to-listen

Tune in for an evening of excellence!

And there’s more…Maine Public Classical will be airing our 2026 performances this fall. More details soon!

You can help us continue to share the joy and wonder of Bach by making a donation to the Bach Virtuosi Festival. All contributions support our mission of inspiring people through music and exceptional performances.

DONATE NOW

https://bachvirtuosifestival.org/support/

Thank you for being a part of the Bach Virtuosi Festival Family!

07/03/2026

🎶 Filled with daring techniques, dynamic expression, and raw emotion, J.S. Bach regularly took risks in his work. He wasn’t afraid to be subversive and to explore more than just the sacred, Bach’s work boldly celebrates the fullness of the human condition!

🎼 The Bach Virtuosi Festival is proud to bring the brilliance and the gutsiness of this extraordinary composer to audiences each year with performances by the highest caliber baroque musicians in the world. You can help us continue this bold work!

✨ Make a donation and help the Bach Virtuosi Festival make this excellence accessible—supporting both our featured performances and free community outreach concerts across Portland and New York. When you become a supporter of the Bach Virtuosi Festival, you
join other passionate music lovers whose contributions are ESSENTIAL to our programs.

🔗 Link in bio: https://bachvirtuosifestival.org/support/

07/02/2026

✨Absolutely dazzling! The 2026 Bach Virtuosi Festival wrapped up our time in Maine and it was one of the best years ever!

🎶 With sold-out performances, wonderful community partners, and incredible performance spaces, the festival was overflowing with the joy and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach.

♥️Thank you for being a part of the Bach Virtuosi Festival and helping us inspire people through music and great performances!

06/23/2026

🎼 ✨The Bach Virtuosi Festival’s final performance in Maine is TONIGHT! Enjoy an evening of wit, charm at USM’s Crewe Center for the Arts. The evening culminates in a staged performance of Bach’s jovial “Coffee Cantata” led by stage director Annette Jolles, recipient of 22 Emmy Awards. This engaging program blends humor, storytelling, and dazzling musicianship for a concert experience as rich and satisfying as your favorite blend of coffee. With an outstanding performances from BVF featured artists, such as:

🎵Emily Donato – Emily Donato has performed as a soloist around the country. In 2023, she was awarded first prize in the 2023 Handel Aria Competition and that same year was a vocal fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival. After winning the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Competition in 2021, Ms. Donato appeared as soloist with the Oratorio Society of New York in Bach’s B Minor Mass. She has been a featured soloist with Voices of Ascension, Musica Sacra, Bach Society of St. Louis, Upper Valley Baroque, and the Bach Virtuosi Festival.

👉 LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!

https://porttix.com/whats-on/bachs-coffee-cantata/

Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 pm
Bach’s Coffee Cantata: Good to the Last Note
University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts

Full performance details and tickets at www.bachvirtuosifestival.org

06/22/2026

🕯️Tonight’s performances of Bach by Candlelight are SOLD OUT!

🎶 However, there are still LIMITED tickets left for the Bach Virtuosi Festival’s FINAL performance of “Coffee Cantata - Good to the Last Note.” It will be an evening filled with sparkling music featuring some of the world’s most acclaimed baroque artists, such as:

🪈 Emi Ferguson – Hailed by critics for her “tonal bloom” and “hauntingly beautiful performances,” English-American performer and composer Emi Ferguson can be heard playing modern and baroque flutes live in concerts and festivals around the world as well as at home in New York City where she is a member of the New York New Music Ensemble, NYBI, Argento Ensemble, and New Vintage Baroque.

Come see Emi Ferguson perform tomorrow night!

Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 pm
Bach’s Coffee Cantata: Good to the Last Note
University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts

ONLY 20 TICKETS LEFT 👉🏻 https://porttix.com/whats-on/bachs-coffee-cantata/

06/21/2026

♥️ Happy Father’s Day!

🎟 This Father’s Day, give your dad the gift of Bach with tickets to the Bach Virtuosi Festival!

⚡ Incredibly talented musicians + exalted works by J.S. Bach + intimate venues with spectacular acoustics = an experience that will delight and inspire!

Come enjoy the elegance and wonder of J.S. Bach together!

FREE CONCERT! Monday, June 22 11am
Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine
Free w/ admission to museum

Monday, June 22
6 pm *SOLD OUT*
8 pm *LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE*
Bach by Candlelight
St. Luke’s Cathedral, Emmanuel Chapel

https://porttix.com/whats-on/bach-by-candlelight/

Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 pm
Bach’s Coffee Cantata: Good to the Last Note
University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts

https://porttix.com/whats-on/bachs-coffee-cantata/

06/18/2026

Are you Bach curious? We are have wonderful opportunities to experience Bach today!

🎻 A FREE Concert at the Portland Museum of Art
5:30pm
Free PMA Admission
Bach Virtuosi Festival Associates String Quartet will be playing a selection of music based around the PMA Collection.

♥️ A gift to the City of Portland. Come be delighted and inspired!

🎹 The Goldberg Variations at Etz Chaim Synagogue
7:30pm
Renowned harpsichordist Arthur Haas performs Bach’s monumental work – one of the composer’s greatest – in an intimate setting.

💫 Come for a memorable evening of discovery and brilliance!

LIMITED Tickets:
https://porttix.com/whats-on/the-goldberg-variations/

06/17/2026

Come experience the complexity and beauty of Johann Sebastian Bach! Leerone Hakami, a violinist and member of the BVF Associates String Quartet, will be among the company of talented artists performing in Maine. A student of BVF Director Lewis Kaplan since she was 14 years old, Hakami credits Kaplan with helping her keep her passion for music alive.

“He always tells me to think of someone I love sitting in the last row, and then play for them. That is something I will always carry with me.”

TICKETS ON SALE!

In addition to the featured Bach Virtuosi performances, Hakami and the Bach Virtuosi Festival Associates String Quartet will be at the Portland Museum of Art playing a selection of music based around the PMA Collection.

Bach Virtuosi Festival Associate Artists: Leerone Hakami and Jessica Wu violins, Weikuan Wang viola, and Noah Koh cello.

A gift to the City of Portland. Come be delighted and inspired!

https://www.portlandmuseum.org/event/the-bach-virtuosi-festival-associates-string-quartet-performance/

06/16/2026

🎉 OPENING NIGHT OF BACH VIRTUOSI FESTIVAL –
CELEBRATE SUMMER WITH BACH! 🎼

Experience the brilliance of Baroque music as the Bach Virtuosi Festival opens its season with “Celebrate Summer with Bach” at the architectural marvel, the concert hall at the University of Southern Maine’s Crewe Center for the Arts. LIMITED TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!

This program showcases the breadth and genius of the world’s greatest composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring the dazzling Concerto for Three Violins, the graceful Orchestral Suite No. 2 with virtuoso flutist Emi Ferguson and the magnificent Cantata, “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”, a “Mighty Fortress is our God”. Performed by acclaimed vocal soloists and chorus and the Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Lewis Kaplan, this concert offers an uplifting and celebratory start to summer!

PROGRAM
Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064
Emi Ferguson, flute
Bach Virtuosi Festival Chamber Orchestra
Orchestral Suite #2, BWV 1067
Emily Donato, soprano
Kirsten Sollek, alto
Matthew Newhouse, tenor
Paul Max Tipton, bass
Bach Virtuosi Festival Chamber Orchestra
Lewis Kaplan, conductor
Our full Maine performance schedule:

Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 pm - *LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE*
Celebrate Summer with Bach
University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts

https://porttix.com/whats-on/celebrate-summer-with-bach/

Thursday, June 18 at 7:30 pm
The Goldberg Variations
Etz Chaim Synagogue

https://porttix.com/whats-on/the-goldberg-variations/

Monday, June 22
6 pm *SOLD OUT*
8 pm *LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE*
Bach by Candlelight
St. Luke’s Cathedral, Emmanuel Chapel

https://porttix.com/whats-on/bach-by-candlelight/

Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 pm
Bach’s Coffee Cantata: Good to the Last Note
University of Southern Maine Crewe Center for the Arts

https://porttix.com/whats-on/bachs-coffee-cantata/

Address

91 Aubrun Street STe J #1130
Portland, ME
04103

Website

https://bachvirtuosifestival.org/

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