BACH COLLEGIUM JAPAN and MASAAKI SUZUKI, conductor

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“The performances are, to my ears, of unmatched excellence.”
— Gramphone Magazine

Bach Collegium Japan first came to worldwide attention through their acclaimed recordings of the complete Bach Cantatas on BIS. A BBC review said it all, "the performers live and breathe Bach's music with as much immediacy as if it had been composed yesterday." The group first came to the United States in April 2003 with inspiring performances of the Bach St. Matthew Passion and the St. John Passion and has returned regularly to the delight of devoted audiences. They celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2020 with a Gramophone Award in the CHORAL category for St Matthew Passion.

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its inspirational Music Director, with the aim of introducing Japanese audiences to historically informed performances of great works from the baroque period. Comprised of both period instrument orchestra and chorus, their activities include an annual concert series of Bach’s cantatas and a number of instrumental programs. The award-winning ensemble is now exploring classical repertoire, having released a recording of the Mozart Requiem in November 2014 and subsequent discs of Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, which won the Choral category in the 2017 Gramophone Awards, and the Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Their recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was released in 2019.

CHECK BACK FOR THEIR NEXT NORTH AMERICAN TOUR!

FEBRUARY 2023 TOUR
with acclaimed baritone, Roderick Williams OBE

February 1: New Haven, CT, Yale University

February 3: Kansas City, MO, Friends of Chamber Music

February 5: Toronto, ON, Royal Conservatory of Music

February 7 & 8: St. Paul, MN, Schubert Club

February 10: Boston, MA, Boston Early Music Festival

February 11: Washington, DC, Library of Congress

February 12: New York City, NY, 92nd Street Y

“Both the gentleness and ecstatic immediacy of Bach's rich imagery become apparent at the outset...The liquid and brilliantly projected bass singing of Roderick Williams is simply majestic...After 22 years of intensive Bach recording, Suzuki and his forces just seem to get better.” - Gramophone, 2017