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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.

07/25/2026

Our final TBF 2026 performance is tonight! Join us for RECONCILIATION: MUSIC OF HOPE AND REDEMPTION
7:30pm Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Tacoma

Steven Zopfi, conductor
TBF Chorus & Orchestra

Join the TBF Chorus and Orchestra for the 2026 TBF Festival finale as we bring you music of reconciliation, hope, and redemption. Bach's splendid Epiphany cantata, Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit about the healing of the l***r is paired with Schütz's Saul, Saul, was vergfolgst du mich and Jeffery Van's cantata for guitar and chorus A Procession Winding based on the civil war poetry of Walt Whitman. The concert concludes with Joel Thompson's vision of a new America, America Will Be!

Tickets and information can be found on our website: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

07/24/2026

Tonight, TBF presents our chamber music performance of ELECTRIC SENSIBILITIES: FLUTE MUSIC OF THE LATE 18TH CENTURY
7:30pm Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Tacoma

Joshua Romatowski, baroque flute
Lark Powers, harpsichord

A thrilling combination of baroque flute and harpsichord music from the mid to late 18th century. This concert contrasts Italian inspired baroque music from the famous French flutist virtuoso Michel Blavet and an exquisite sonata by the Italian composer/vocalist Anna Bon di Venezia with later baroque repertoire by JS Bach’s son, CPE Bach, in the Empfindsamkeit Style, or “Sensitive Style”. Join baroque flautist and Tacoma’s own Joshua Romatowski and harpsichordist Lark Powers for a wild and adventurous plunge into the Baroque.

Tickets and information can be found on our website: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

07/23/2026

Join us tonight for our opening performance: GLORY AND DEVOTION: THE ORGAN MUSIC OF BACH AND WALTHER
7:30pm @ Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Tacoma
Jonghee Yoon, Organ

Recognized as one of her generation's rising international artists, organist Jonghee Yoon takes us on a journey through the organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporary, Johann Gottfried Walther. Performed on the Fritts organ at Kilworth Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Puget Sound, it promises to be a glorious night of Baroque splendor!

Tickets and information can be found on our website: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

07/19/2026

Tacoma Bach Festival 2026 is happening this week! Join us for three evenings of beautiful performances July 23rd-25th in Kilworth Memorial Chapel, featuring some of the Pacific Northwest’s finest musicians!

Tickets and information can be found on our website: https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/concerts-1

07/18/2026

Meet the Artist: Paul Tegels, organ, is a native of the Netherlands and is currently Director of Music at Christ Church Episcopal in Tacoma. There 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.

07/17/2026

Meet the Artist: Elizabeth C. D. Brown, archlute & guitar, is specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes and is a very active performer in the United States. Highlights from recent seasons include performing at the Music by Women Festival and Northwest Guitar Festival, performing concertos by Vivaldi and Sierra and premiering a new work for guitar and orchestra with the Seattle Symphony. She has performed with numerous choirs, including Choral Arts Northwest, Seattle Pro Musica, Seattle Peace Choir, Seattle Bach Choir, Skagit Valley Chorale; and PLU’s Choral Union and Choir of the West. Elizabeth's first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its "...apparently effortless ease." (Lute News, UK) Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the Elisabeth of Hesse Lutebook, as well as her own arrangements of works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. An enthusiastic advocate for the guitar and lute, Elizabeth has given numerous outreach performances at schools, senior centers, and community centers for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society and Early Music Seattle, as well as by arrangement while on tour. She is head of the Guitar and Lute program at Pacific Lutheran University and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Pacific University. See her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/ElizabethCDBrown or for more information visit: www.elizabethcdbrown.com

07/16/2026

Meet the Artist: Cyrus Roat, baroque bassoon, is a Tacoma-based bassoonist who appears regularly on both modern and historical instruments. He performs with the North Corner Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Rock Orchestra, and the Federal Way Symphony, among other local ensembles. In recent seasons, he has performed on historical instruments with the Seattle Bach Choir, the Montana Early Music Festival, and the Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle. Originally from Wisconsin, Cyrus completed his Master of Music at Indiana University and his Bachelor of Music at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Primary teachers include Kathleen McLean, Michael McCraw, Martin Kuuskmann,and Marc Vallon.

07/15/2026

Meet the Artist: A seasoned performer on modern as well as baroque oboe, Adam Shapiro he has performed with the Seattle Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony orchestras, as well as with the American Bach Soloists. Adam is also a member of the Seattle 5th Avenue and Village Theater pit orchestras. Adam earned his DMA in Performance Practice from Rutgers University. As a teacher, Adam has been a lecturer at the University of Washington and maintains an active private studio. He is a frequent clinician in the US and Europe and has conducted residencies at UNLV, U of I Champaign Urbana, University of Kansas, and Cambridge University UK. He studied with Ray Still, Grover Schiltz, Ronald Roseman and Stephen Hammer.

07/14/2026

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.

07/13/2026

Meet the Artist: Ross Gilliland, violone, 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.

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P. O. Box 7274
Tacoma, WA
98417

Website

https://www.tacomabachfestival.org/

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