The Gächinger Kantorei of Stuttgart & the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; that must sound like the most beautiful Christmas bells to the ears of Stuttgart Ensemble members...

Excerpts from the programme of our academy concerts are presented alongside world-famous artists in moderated concerts. Entertainment is combined with educational content to produce a fascinating live music experience. Training seminars offered in advance provide teachers with material for their lessons.

All six cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio featuring Helmuth Rilling in an Academy concert: a MUST for all music lovers in and around Stuttgart...

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Ever since its founding, the musicians of the Bach Academy have been regular guests of the new philharmonic orchestra in Essen. Just like the people of Essen, we can always look forward to something new...

The Christmas Oratorio at the Berlin Philharmonic featuring the Bach Academy Ensemble directed by Helmuth Rilling: it's certainly a challenge to top this collection of superlatives...

Who would have thought: this is only the second concert ever featuring Helmuth Rilling at Leipzig's Thomaskirche church! The premiere was only a few years ago (Mass in B Minor 2005 with the Festival Ensemble).

The Bach Academy has always sought to provide a varied musical programme during the Advent season. But every once in a while, we just have to do it, and everyone is pleased when we present it: THE Christmas Oratorio.

'Olari Elts transmits so much energy to his musicians, soloists and choir,' praises the press with its description of the young Estonian conductor, who agreed at very short notice to take over direction of the performances of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Paulus' for Masaaki Suzuki, who is currently ill.

Excerpts from the programme of our academy concerts are presented alongside world-famous artists in moderated concerts. Entertainment is combined with educational content to produce a fascinating live music experience. Training seminars offered in advance provide teachers with material for their lessons.

An approach to the programme of the Academy Concert that is musicological, interdisciplinary, often exciting, and absolutely entertaining 2

In 1968 and 1971, Helmuth Rilling went on tour for the first time in the USA. Over the course of the decades that followed, the continent has become like a second home to him. Requests for guest appearances keep on coming, and they nearly always include Bach's Mass in B Minor and his oratorios.

Helmuth Rilling and his ensemble performing a 'Bach pack' (motet, cantata, Magnificat) and Handel's 'Dixit Dominus' at the 3rd International Bach Festival in South Korea.

An evening with Schubert & Brahms hosted at 'laVerdi' in Milan: why not hold three great concerts at once?

Canadian keyboard virtuoso Angela Hewitt has been a repeat guest over the years at the music festival. Our Italian partners suggested the wonderful idea to perform a concert together with the Bach Collegium.

Morten Schuldt-Jensen, famous as the director of the Gewandhaus Choir in Leipzig and now professor of choir direction at the College of Music Freiburg, made a lasting impression during his last performance with the Gächinger Kantorei at the foundation's music festival in 2008. He will now be performing Bruckner's unusual Mass in e minor in the Beethoven Hall.

Musicological, interdisciplinary, often exciting, and absolutely entertaining approach to the programme of the Academy Concert 1

Helmuth Rilling's contact to the artists of Buenos Aires stretch back to the beginning of the 1980s. In Haydn's anniversary year, he will be hosting The Creation at the world-famous Teatro Coliseo.

The Bach Academy's activity programme: classes from all types of schools work under the direction of concert educators to create their own compositions and audio landscapes involving a specific theme or piece of music.

Jonathan Stockhammer is one of the most versatile directors of the new gernation, and in a short time, he has made a name for himself in the opera world, in classical symphony circles, and in the international contemporary music scene. With Wolfgang Rihm's DEUS PASSUS, a composition commissioned by the Suttgart International Bach Academy for the PASSION 2000 project and simultaneously a great example of the vitality of contemporary music, will now appear as a guest of partners Gächinger Kantorei and the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in the European metropolitan centre of Strasbourg.

In über 60 Veranstaltungen der zwei Musikfest-Wochen bot sich dem Publikum die Möglichkeit, Altbekanntes neu zu hören und Unerhörtes zu entdecken; in großen und kleinen Konzerten, in Lesungen und Vorträgen; zu unterschiedlichsten Tageszeiten und an vielen verschiedenen Orten über ganz Stuttgart verteilt: Ein musikalisches Fest mit einem festlichen Thema: LICHT.

A 'master's concert' excursion by the Festival Ensemble featuring Handel's Messiah at the new cultural centre in the university city of Homburg

From the Rheingau Music Festival to Berlin: Sandström's and Handel's Messiah featuring the Festival Ensemble at the Philharmonic

The closing concert of the Rheingau Music Festival is already sold out! The Stuttgart Festival Ensemble, directed by its founder Helmuth Rilling, has developed an outstanding reputation at this renowned festival. Two versions of the Messiah are presented during this year's finale in the wonderful basilica of the Eberbach cloister.

Several days prior to the beginning of the music festival, a truly spectacular start featuring the National Youth Orchestra and the National Jazz Orchestra, directed by Dennis Russell Davies. Experience these young musicians performing classics like Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' and three premieres!

Baroque music in a baroque setting: the first Messiah concert with the Festival Ensemble in Überlingen's Franciscan church. This ancient cloister from the 13th century was replaced with a late-baroque building, although this preserves the character of the triple-nave basilica in spite of the stucco work.

From secret tip directly to hopelessly sold out concert event: the mixed chamber music programme presented by the festival ensemble in the Salem College auditorium has become a real attraction for music lovers around Lake Constance in just a few years.

An anniversary worth reflecting on: forty years ago, it was the same constellation: the same place, the piece, the same ensemble, the same Helmuth Rilling. The fact that Bach's Mass in B minor couldn't sound the same as it did forty years ago somehow seems clear, and director Dr. Andreas Bomba discusses this during the Stuttgart Bach Week.

A significant highlight of the Oregon Bach Festival 2009, which was presented with a focus on 'Themes and Variations', was certainly the world premiere of the new 'Messiah' by Sven-David Sandström, a work commissioned by the Bach Academy together with the OBF.

The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino takes place annually during the months of May and June in Florence. The festival was founded in 1933 with the original goal of performing contemporary and forgotten operas, and it is Italy's oldest music festival. Composers who have premiered their own work at the Maggio Musicale themselves include Pietro Mascagni, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók, and Igor Stravinsky.

Winterthur City Hall, built with Bernese sandstone, is also referred to as the 'Temple of Democracy'. It was constructed from 1865 ─ 1870 according to plans by Gottfried Semper, and it is said to be his favourite building. Haydn's Creation is one of Helmuth Rilling's favourite oratorios.

Since 1986, the Bach Academy has performed in Poland at regular intervals. During the eighth of these visits, Helmuth Rilling travelled to Germany's neighbours for nearly a week together with the Gächinger Kantorei.

An outstanding concert for members of our patron's association: after presenting the 'Stuttgarter Jahreszeiten' with excerpts from the response project of the Bach Academy and in the context of the 'JoJo' activity programme, at which students from Stuttgart and area perform their own compositions in the theme of the seasons, segments from Haydn's 'The Seasons' were performed by the Bach Academy Youth Choir and a raffle was organised by director of the patrons' association.

The attendance of Ton Koopman as a guest at this academy concert lent the event special prominence. He completes the cycle of The Seasons opened by Helmuth Rilling and Isabelle Faust at the beginning of the season with a richly varied programme.