Event Schedule
Accurate as of 2/6/2025 (subject to change)
* = Rain Location: Lindsay-Crossman Chapel
$ = Tickets Required — To order tickets, click links below or call (440) 826-8070.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Open House
10 a.m.-Noon
Riemenschneider Bach Institute, Room 160, Boesel Musical Arts Center
Stop by to see some of the vault's priceless treasures. We will be featuring first editions of "Messiah" and two Handel operas; a recently acquired, very rare program for the Concerts of Ancient Music, at which Handel's music was featured in 18th-century London; early editions of Bach motets; and scores for Bach's organ preludes. We will also have a selection of programs from 93 years of BW Bach Festivals to peruse.
Master Class
1-2:30 p.m.
Kadel Family Vocal Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Center
Featuring Joseph Hubbard, baritone.
Interlude: BW Broadway Band
2:45-3:15 p.m.
Lobby, Boesel Musical Arts Center
Come join Baldwin Wallace's Broadway Band, founded by Nicholas Stanick '27 and Reese Clements '27, as they showcase Broadway's rich musical history while providing students with opportunities in music direction, vocal performance, pit orchestra, and more.
RBI Student Scholar Presentation
"Riemenschneider, Exoticism, and Crocodiles, Oh My!"
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Lindsay-Crossman Chapel
Featuring Kiersten Hopko '26, lecturer
This talk explores the relationship between Albert Riemenschneider and organ composer Roy Spaulding Stoughton, who wrote in an innovative style influenced by the Exoticism fashionable at the time.
Festival Brass
6:15 p.m.
Marting Hall Lawn & Tower*
This annual tradition is a crowd favorite. BW Brass students play the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries from the iconic Marting Tower.
Bach Motets ($)
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
Johann Sebastian Bach's ageless cello suites are interspersed with some of his most intricate music. The single line of the cello suites creates an incredible foil for the densely contrapuntal Motets.
Presented by BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir and members of the BW community, this is an incredible evening of music, simple and complex, sad and joyous.
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Post-Concert Reception
8:30 p.m.
Gamble Lobby, Kulas Musical Arts Building
Hosted by the Friends of the Conservatory.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Master Class
11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Kadel Family Vocal Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Center
Featuring Clara Osowski, soprano.
Interlude: "Soli Deo Gloria"
12:45-1:15 p.m.
Lobby, Boesel Musical Arts Center
"Preluding…"
1:30 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
The Baldwin Wallace Organ Studio presents "Preluding...," a program that takes inspiration from J.S. Bach's time as organist at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
In this special Bach Festival performance, students of the Organ Studio invite you to experience Bach's rich tradition of "preluding" and improvisation during worship services, offering their own interpretations and explorations of Bach's music.
BachSings
2 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
Over 60 high school students and teachers from across Northeast Ohio will gather for a concert featuring the works of Handel and Bach. These young and aspiring musicians will join our BW artists, BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir and the Baldwin Wallace University Motet Choir.
Under the direction of Dr. Jami Lercher and Artistic Director Dirk Garner, this inspired afternoon of choral music brings high school students to the Bach Festival for the inaugural BachSings Festival.
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Lecture
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Kadel Family Vocal Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Center
Jonathan Rhodes Lee, lecturer
This lecture situates "Messiah" both within Handel's output of the 1740s and within the social situation of that time, and it meditates on why this oratorio has become such a broadly beloved work.
Festival Brass
6:15 p.m.
Marting Hall Lawn & Tower*
This annual tradition is a crowd favorite. BW Brass students play the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries from the iconic Marting Tower.
Handel's "Messiah" ($)
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" is perhaps the most often performed piece of classical music. Its famous "Hallelujah" chorus even rolls off the tongues of children. It is a work of healing and comfort.
We are thrilled to present this infamous Baroque work for the first time at the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival. The music is celebratory, passionate and profound, worthy of its place alongside Bach.
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