This is my last year
as Music Director of the
Vancouver Bach Choir
and I hope that you will enjoy our busy and exciting season. Some of our concerts are annual events: Christmas with the Bach Choir is a warm, family seasonal celebration when we are joined by the many young voices of the Vancouver Bach Children's Chorus and Youth choirs. The Sing Along Messiah, a tradition begun in 1980, features the audience as chorus, led by the Vancouver Bach Choir and a group of vibrant young soloists. Finally there will be the LAST, Last Night of the Proms.

This year is also one of celebrations associated with the Winter Olympics, and no celebration is bigger than the performance of Mahler's massive 8th Symphony, "The Symphony of a Thousand". The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is mounting this fantastic piece, and we will be joined by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Vancouver Bach Children's Chorus, all under the direction of Maestro Bramwell Tovey. In early January we will also be featured with the VSO in a performance of Beethoven's iconic 9th Symphony.

We are named after Johann Sebastian Bach and I am glad that in my last year we will be performing my favourite work by that great composer, the St. John Passion. This dramatic, emotional re-telling of the Passion story shows us the almost operatic side of Bach's genius and is, for me, a very special piece, and I think the best of him.

I hope you will subscribe and join us for this thrilling season.

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