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The Tacoma Bach Festival was founded in 2022 to explore the music and legacy of JS Bach and his contemporaries and to bring high-level Baroque and Baroque-inspired music to Tacoma.

That’s a wrap on Tacoma Bach Festival 2025! Thank you to all of our patrons and supporters for coming out and making th...
07/28/2025

That’s a wrap on Tacoma Bach Festival 2025! Thank you to all of our patrons and supporters for coming out and making this festival possible. See you next year!

Our final performance of the 2025 Tacoma Bach Festival is tonight and will feature the wide array of soundscapes from ou...
07/26/2025

Our final performance of the 2025 Tacoma Bach Festival is tonight and will feature the wide array of soundscapes from our TBF Chorus and Orchestra! Join us for our performance of Transformation: From Bach to Hella Johnson and Beyond as we musically explore transformation in all its forms with the music of Bach, Byrd, Elgar, Williams, Hella Johnson, and Valverde!

Tickets for tonight’s concert can be purchased online: https://tacomabachfestival.ticketspice.com/transformation-bach-to-hella-johnson-and-beyond

Opening night of the Tacoma Bach Festival is TONIGHT at Christ Episcopal Church in Tacoma, beginning at 7:30pm! Join us...
07/24/2025

Opening night of the Tacoma Bach Festival is TONIGHT at Christ Episcopal Church in Tacoma, beginning at 7:30pm! Join us for a wonderful concert of The Influencers: Bach and his Musical World, featuring Tekla Cunningham and friends performing Bach, Boehm, Couperin, and Telemann!

Tickets for tonight’s concert can be found online: https://tacomabachfestival.ticketspice.com/the-influencers-tekla-cunningham-violin

Meet the Artist: Paul Tegels, organist and native of the Netherlands, is currently Director of Music at Christ Church Ep...
07/24/2025

Meet the Artist: Paul Tegels, organist and native of the Netherlands, is currently Director of Music at Christ Church Episcopal in Tacoma, where he plays a beautiful Brombaugh organ, and oversees an active music program. From 2002 until 2023 he was University Organist and first Assistant and later Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy and his Master of Arts Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, where he studied organ with Delores Bruch, and choral conducting with William Hatcher. Other degrees and awards include the Artist Diploma and the Master of Music Degree in organ performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Yuko Hayashi and William Porter. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange. He holds the teaching and performance degrees from the Stedelijk Conservatorium in Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he studied organ with Bert Matter and harpsichord with Cees Rosenhart Paul Tegels has performed extensively in solo and ensemble concerts in the United States, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. He has performed at National Conventions of the Organ Historical Society, and has played some of the most significant organs in the US.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

Meet the Artist: Laura Kramer, baroque cello, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician on baroque and...
07/23/2025

Meet the Artist: Laura Kramer, baroque cello, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician on baroque and modern cello. She has performed as continuo and solo cellist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, NYS Baroque, the Grande Bande and Glimmerglass Opera. Laura also performs with many choral groups in the Seattle area, including Seattle Bach Choir, Mirinesse Women's Choir, Bellevue Chamber Chorus and Vespertine Opera.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

Meet the Artist: Ross Gilliland performs regularly on modern and baroque bass and violone throughout the pacific northwe...
07/23/2025

Meet the Artist: Ross Gilliland performs regularly on modern and baroque bass and violone throughout the pacific northwest. He performs locally with period ensembled including the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Sound Salon (formerly Byron Schenkman & Friends), the Whidbey Island Music Festival, Epiphany Parish, Tacoma Bach Festival, and Seattle Bach Choir. He also performs regularly on modern bass with numerous ensembles including the North Corner Chamber Orchestra (NOCCO), Seattle Modern Orchestra, Emerald City Music, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Auburn Symphony, Seattle Chamber Orchestra, and the Seattle ‘Candlelight Concert’ series. He is also active freelancing in theater and studio sessions, recording soundtracks for feature films, pop, bluegrass, video games, and other ‘attractions’. A Madison, WI native, Ross has been a long-time and continuing performer with the Madison Bach Musicians, the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, collaborating closely with famed composer and Bach interpreter John Harbison, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society. He has been a featured soloist with Seattle's Mostly Nordic concert series and live on Wisconsin Public Radio. Mr. Gilliland holds degrees in music performance, physics, and environmental policy.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

Our final concert of the 4th annual Tacoma Bach Festival features our TBF Orchestra, Chorus and Resident Artists this Sa...
07/23/2025

Our final concert of the 4th annual Tacoma Bach Festival features our TBF Orchestra, Chorus and Resident Artists this Saturday evening. Transformation: Bach to Hella Johnson and Beyond is a performance to explore the idea of transformation in all its forms - from musical, to personal, to societal. The program highlights Bach’s Cantata 70 “Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!” alongside works by Byrd, Elgar, Hella Johnson, Valverde and Williams. Join us for a transformative festival finale!

Tickets can be purchased online: https://tacomabachfestival.ticketspice.com/transformation-bach-to-hella-johnson-and-beyond

Meet the Artist: Dr. Darlene Franz, baroque oboe, enjoys an active freelance career, appearing as a soloist, chamber mus...
07/23/2025

Meet the Artist: Dr. Darlene Franz, baroque oboe, enjoys an active freelance career, appearing as a soloist, chamber music collaborator, and orchestral musician throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. She is a sought-after performer on both modern and historical oboes, and has played with Seattle Baroque, Seattle Pro Musica, the Northwest Sinfonietta, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver, B. C.), California Bach Society, and the Seattle Bach Choir among many other groups. In 2018 she gave the West Coast premiere of Joseph Pollard White’s Concerto for oboe d’amore and orchestra with the Thalia Symphony. Recent engagements include oboe soloist for Musical Prayer and Taizé services at St. James Cathedral, and as English hornist for The Passion of St. Thomas More, a chamber opera by Garrett Fisher, at Texas A&M University. Dr. Franz studied oboe with Rebecca Henderson, Alex Klein, and Robert Hubbard. Additional studies with John Mack and Margriet Tindemans profoundly influenced her musical development.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

Meet the Artist: Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon, is a multi-instrumentalist fluent in Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and M...
07/22/2025

Meet the Artist: Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon, is a multi-instrumentalist fluent in Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Modern styles. Anna holds a doctorate of music in historical performance from Indiana University & has appeared worldwide with Opera Lafayette, Tempesta di Mare, Folger Consort, Musica Angelica, Tafelmusik, Washington Bach Consort and Atlanta Baroque among others. She has taught privately & at festivals at the Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Music and Art School, Amherst Early Music, San Francisco Early Music Society, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival & Western Double Reed Workshops. She also has been heard on dozens of recordings & on Performance Today, Harmonia, CBC radio & recorded for Chandos, Analekta, Centaur, Naxos, the Super Bowl, Avie, and Musica Omnia's Grammy nominated album, Handel's Israel in Egypt.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

Meet the Artist: Kris Kwapis, baroque trumpet, appears regularly as soloist and principal trumpet with period-instrument...
07/22/2025

Meet the Artist: Kris Kwapis, baroque trumpet, appears regularly as soloist and principal trumpet with period-instrument ensembles across North America, including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Tafelmusik, Boston Baroque, Bach Collegium San Diego, Oregon Bach Festival/Berwick Academy, Staunton Music Festival, and Seattle Bach Festival, among others, making music with directors such as Andrew Parrott, Monica Huggett, Alexander Weimann, Barthold Kuijken, Matthew Halls, Jacques Ogg, and Masaaki Suzuki. Her playing is heard on Kleos, Naxos, ReZound, Lyrichord, Musica Omnia and Dorian labels, including the 2013 GRAMMY nominated recording of Handel’s Israel in Egypt, and broadcast on CBC, WNYC, WQED (Pittsburgh), Portland All-Classical (KQAC), Sunday Baroque and Wisconsin Public Radio. A student of Armando Ghitalla on modern trumpet, with a BM and MM in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan, Dr. Kwapis also holds a DMA in historical performance from Stony Brook University (NY), and enjoys sharing her passion with the next generation of performers as a faculty member at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music Historical Performance Institute (teaching cornetto and baroque trumpet) in addition to teaching at her home in Seattle and online. Aside from making music, Kris also creates visual art in the encaustic medium. www.kriskwapis.com.

Tickets to our performances are available online: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

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