Masterworks Series
All-Bach Opening Night
Saturday, October 11, 2025 ~ 7:30pm
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
The Dallas Bach Society proudly introduces its 2025-26 Season, with a program of iconic works by the great composer: Brandenburg Concert #3, Double Concerto for Two violins and orchestra; Ouverture (Orchestral Suite) #2, and Cantata 209 “Non sa che sia dolore”, with soloists Clare Cason and Victoria Klaunig, violins, Mei Stone, Baroque Flute, and Taylor Fenner, coloratura soprano.
Messiah Sing-A-Long
Monday, December 22, 2025 ~ 7:30pm
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
Our audience is the chorus, with the Dallas Bach Choir, Orchestra, & soloists – an annual tradition!
Messiah at the Meyerson
Tuesday, December 23, 2024 ~ 7:00 pm
The Meyerson Symphony Center
“A Dallas tradition and the Messiah of choice” says the Dallas Morning News.
Handel’s greatest work, complete, featuring Dallas Bach favorite soloists Haley Sicking, soprano, Nicholas Garza, countertenor, Dann Coakwell, tenor, and David Grogan, bass, in the traditional version with Handel’s aria changes, not the original 1741 version that we’ve done for a couple of years along with our debut recording for Onyx, in London. Same ticket prices as last season!
New Year's Eve
Bach's Greatest Cantatas
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 ~ 7:30pm
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
New Year’s Eve will feature some of the greatest of Bach Cantatas, with the fabulous Kara McBain singing the Wedding Cantata, David Grogan singing Ich habe genug, and Taylor Fenner gracing us with Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. We will conclude with Ein feste Burg (a Mighty Fortress is our God) to ring in 2026.
Saint Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach
Saturday, February 28, 2026 ~ 7:30pm
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
Arguably J.S. Bach’s greatest work, the colossal Passion according to Saint Matthew has double orchestra and chorus, and will be performed in collaboration with the Greater Dallas Choral Society for Children and Youth. Join us at our new home in Our Redeemer Lutheran Church with Evangelist Matthieu Peyregne and Christus David Grogan, along with double chorus, orchestra and soloists of the Dallas Bach Society.
Coffee Cantata & Apollo Ballet
In Collaboration with New York Baroque Dance Company
Saturday, March 14, 2026 ~ 7:30pm
The New York Baroque Dance Company joins DBS for a splendid evening of opera-ballet featuring the one-act Apollon, La Nuit, et Comus (Apollo, Night, and Comus) by Nicolas Bernier. The program will start with two Coffee Cantatas, one by J.S. Bach which you may know, and another by the French composer Nicolas Bernier, which you may not – but it is perhaps more in today’s spirit by lauding coffee as the key to undoing the drunkenness of the wine god Bacchus.
After intermission the lovely ballet by Bernier will be given with Haley Sicking as La Nuit (Night) and Matthieu Peyregne as Apollo, in this paean to the patroness of the “Nights at Sceaux”, the Duchesse de Guise, perhaps the richest lady in France. She was renowned as an insomniac, and thus is portrayed as Night, contrasted with Apollo, the sun or Day – their conflict is resolved by Comus, god of festivals, who resolves the issue by offering the eternal celebrations of the modern-day Minerva, as the dutchess is called in the ballet.
An evening of great charm and elegance, staged with full costuming by the New York Baroque Dance Company under the direction of the Artistic Director Catherine Turocy, with the Dallas Bach Chamber Players.
Homage to Lafayette,
a part of USA250 Celebrations
May 2026, exact date to be announced
Homage to Lafayette - part of USA250 national celebration of the homage to the Marquis de Lafayette, whose assistance was so important in the War for Independence, and who made his final trip to America to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of our country in 1826. Music and Dance from the ball honoring him in Philadelphia will form the basis of this performance.
Included at no extra charge in all subscriptions.
