Monday, June 2

Annual Peoria Bach Festival Young Artists’ Concert – 12:05 p.m. (Free)

Come and hear children of all ages sing and play the music of Bach and his contemporaries on violin, keyboard, brass, and woodwind instruments on our Annual Young Artists’ Concert. If you know of a child or high school student that would like to participate, please call Dr. Martin Dicke at 309-676-4609 (x207) or e-mail us at peoriabachfestival@trinitypeoria.com.

Bach at Noon: Marcia and Friends – 12:05 p.m. (Free)

Peoria has developed many phenomenal string players over the years thanks to Bradley University and dedicated string teachers in the area such as Marcia Henry Liebenow. This intimate and delightful concert will feature Marcia and some of her friends playing some of Bach’s more intimate works.

Bach at Noon: Music for Pipe and Strings – 12:05 p.m. (Free)

Bach was known as a virtuoso on both the pipe organ and the violin. Along with several of Bach’s works for organ, this program will feature Peoria native Peoria native Courtney Silver performing Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B minor for Unaccompanied Violin. A former student of Marcia Henry Liebenow and EmmaLee Holmes Hicks, Courtney is currently a violin performance major at Rice University Shepherd School of Music where she studies with Kathleen Winkler. She is a 2012 graduate of Richwoods High School and the 2009 winner of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition.

 

“Hey Kids! Meet Mr. Bach”: Bach Goes to Space – 4:00 p.m. (Admission $2.50)

Hey kids, did you know that Mr. Bach’s music is in space? Yes, that’s right. Come and learn about how that all happened and see some of the Peoria Bach Festival musicians demonstrate and talk about their instruments. Then, Mr. Bach himself will take you up to the Balcony where he will play the Trinty’s mighty Schlicker pipe organ especially for you. You might even get to crawl around inside the organ and see how it works.

Bach’s Lunch – 12:00 p.m. (Free – call to reserve a lunch)

Dr. Martin Dicke

Have a FREE lunch on us and gain musical and spiritual insight into the music that will be featured on the weekend concerts of the Peoria Bach Festival 2014. Among other things, we will discuss an amazing fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 that even though it is a purely instrumental work, is an amazing statement by Bach of his deep, personal faith. Lunch is served at 12:00 noon. The lecture will begin at 12:10 and conclude at 1:00 p.m. The lecture is FREE. Call 309-676-4609 to reserve your Bach’s lunch.

 

Chamber Concert 2014 – 5:30 p.m. (Free)

Stephen Alltop, harpsichord, and Josefien Stoppelenburg, mezzo-soprano

For our Thursday and Friday concerts we welcome Chicago conductor and keyboardist extraordinaire Stephen Alltop (www.stephenalltop.com) and his wife Josefien Stoppelenburg (www.josefienstoppelenburg.com). This program will feature works by Rameau, J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and Handel.

Bach at Noon: Music for the King of Instruments – 12:05 p.m. (free)

Stephen Alltop, organ

Principal organist and harpsichordist for the Chicago Symphony, Stephen Alltop, will play a sampling of organ music by Bach and his contemporaries.

 

Coffee with Bach – 6:30 p.m.

Pre-Concert Lecture – 7:15 p.m.

Coffee Concert 2014 – 8:00 p.m. (Admission: $16 adults/$10 students)

Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra – Stephen Alltop, conductor/harpsichord and Josefien Stoppelenburg, mezzo-soprano

The theme for this year’s Coffee Concert is “Life in Leipzig” and will feature music that Bach himself may have used for the Coffee Concerts and he and his orchestra presented at the Zimmermann Coffee House in Leipzig. The repertoire will include the Orchestral Suite No. 1, the Harpsichord Concerto in A Major featuring Stephen Alltop at the harpsichord, Telemann’s Wassermusik (Water Music), and Cantata 209 featuring Josefien Stoppelenburg, mezzo-soprano. Be sure to come early for some coffee and treats. To order your tickets, please e-mail us at peoriabachfestival@trintypeoria.com or call 309-676-4609.

Festival Concert 2014 – 8:00 p.m. (Admission: $16 adults/$10 students)

Peoria Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra – Dr. Martin Dicke and Dr. John Jost, conductors

The final concert of the Peoria Bach Festival 2014 will feature the motet for double choir “Komm, Jesu, Komm” (“Come, Jesus, Come”), Cantata 55 “Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht” (“I, Wretched Man, Slave to Sin”) featuring Trevor Mitchell, tenor; and the Cantata 34 “O ewiges Feuer” (“O Eternal Fire”). To order your tickets, please e-mail us at peoriabachfestival@trintypeoria.com or call 309-676-4609.

Festival Worship Services – 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Peoria Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra – Dr. John Jost, conductor

Join us for our Sunday Festival Worship Services as we celebrate Pentecost, the birthday of the Christian church. As a part of our Festival Worship Services, the Peoria Bach Festival Choir will perform Cantata 34 “O ewiges Feuer” (“O Eternal Fire”). Based on the readings for the day (Acts 2:1-13 and John 14:23-31), the text of this cantata prays that the flames of the Holy Spirit dwell in and flow through us into the world. The preacher for this service will be Trinity’s Associate Pastor, Pastor Matthew Synnott. Join us as sing some of the hymns that Bach and his congregation would have sung and celebrate Pentecost as Bach would have.