Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, artistic director and conductor
SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013 | 5 PM
WOOLSEY HALL (500 COLLEGE ST)
On Sunday, March 3, Masaaki Suzuki will lead the Bach Collegium Japan in a performance of motets by J.S. Bach. The concert will take place at 5 PM in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street). Tickets are $20 ($10 students) atmusic.yale.edu; all proceeds will be donated to ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Japan.
Masaaki Suzuki, the founding director of Bach Collegium Japan, is Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting at Yale, where he directs the Yale Schola Cantorum.
Suzuki founded Bach Collegium Japan in 1990 to introduce Japanese audiences to period instrument performances of great works from the Baroque period. The ensemble consists of both orchestra and chorus; major activities include an annual concert series of Bach cantatas and a number of instrumental programs. It enjoys an international reputation through performances all over the world, and through acclaimed recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas for the BIS label.
The Bach Collegium Japan’s 2013 US tour includes performances in Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic and Yale Schola Cantorum March 6-9.
Masaaki Suzuki returns to Yale in April to conduct Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in performances of Bach’s Mass in B minor in New Haven, New York, and on tour to Japan and Singapore.
The US tour of the Bach Collegium Japan Chorus is supported by the Japan Foundation and arranged by International Arts Foundation. Yale Institute of Sacred Music sponsors the New Haven concert; tickets are available atmusic.yale.edu. More information is at 203.432-4158.