Bach Collegium San Diego: Bach, historically informed, vibrantly performed.


Bach Collegium San Diego ensemble was founded in 2003 to diversify the music offerings in the San Diego community by providing engaging, accessible, historically informed performances of repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical eras.

Its principal members bring longstanding experience from such international ensembles as the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as from this country's leading ensembles as American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Additionally, the ensemble is dedicated to engaging soloists and ensemble singers from some of this country's most gifted young artists who specialize in early music. During its first eight seasons, the ensemble has earned an impressive reputation, captivating diverse audiences by their unique style and highly expressive and provocative approach to the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire.

The ensemble regularly participates in an international tour to Mexico City with performances at the Festival Internacional del Órgano Barroco, and most recently were sponsored by the United Stated Embassy to perform in Bolivia at the IX Internacional de Música Renacentista y Barroca American 'Misiones de Chiquitos' where they had the honor of performing at the historic Jesuit missions at Concepción and San Javier.

The ensemble has premiered many historically informed performances in San Diego which include Handel's Theodora and Messiah, Bach's St John Passion, B minor Mass, and Magnificat, Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, Mozart's Requiem, and staged performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The ensemble is fast developing itself as one of the exciting early music ensembles to watch on the West Coast.

  Bach Collegium San Diego

[JS Bach Six Motets BWV 225-230 by Bach Collegium San Diego]

JS Bach Six Motets BWV 225-230



Bach Collegium San Diego lives in California, USA.

Tagged as: Classical, Baroque, Classical Singing, Choral, Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Lute, Organ, Viola da Gamba.


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