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Schedule:

Friday, June 30

5:00pm - “1723: A Festival Inspired by Bach’s Move to Leipzig” with Jos van Veldhoven

Location:Berwick Hall - 975 E 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403

Hinkle Distinguished Lectures provide in-depth conversations with unique Festival insights. Join us for a social event at 5:00 pm and the lecture at 5:30 pm with Jos van Veldhoven.

6:00pm: OBF 2023 Opening Celebration

Location:Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Join us for OBF 2023 Opening Celebration!

7:30pm: Bach: Magnificat

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Inspired by Bach’s 1723 move to Leipzig, the “imaginative and spontaneous” (The New York Times) Jos van Veldhoven leads the OBF Period Orchestra and OBF Chorus through a Baroque-era musical journey. Beginning with movements from Telemann’s celebratory nautical oratorio “Hamburg Admiralty Music,” the program includes cantatas from Graupner and Bach, and concludes with the joyous and transformative Bach Magnificat.

Telemann: Selections from “Hamburg Admiralty Music”
Graupner: Aus der Tiefen rufen  wir
J.S. Bach: Cantata 22, Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe
J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major

MaryRuth Lown Miller, soprano
Olivia Miller, soprano
Rhianna Cockrell, alto
Sylvia Leith, alto
Corey Shotwell, tenor
Steven Soph, tenor
Harrison Hintzsche, bass
Edmund Milly, bass
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

This program will also be performed at Reed College in Kaul Auditorium on July 1 at 8:00pm.

Saturday, July 1

7:30pm - Schubert: Swan Song

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Franz Schubert, the quintessential composer of art song, produced more than 600 songs. His final cycle, Schwanengesang (Swan Song), depicts hopeless desire and longing for lost love. Schubert’s Fantasy for Violin and Piano, composed during the same final chapter of his life, is simultaneously one of the most virtuosic and sublime works for those instruments.

Schubert: Selections from Swan Song
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major for Violin & Piano
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor

Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Ben Beilman, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola
Zlatomir Fung, violoncello
Gloria Chien, piano
Julius Drake, piano

This program is presented in collaboration with Chamber Music Northwest.

Sunday, July 2

1:45pm - LET'S TALK! Talbot: Path of Miracles
LET'S TALK! Talbot: Path of Miracles

Location: Frohnmayer Music Building - 163, 961 E 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Talbot: Path of Miracles!

2:30pm : Talbot: Path of Miracles

Location:Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Join the OBF Chorus for a pilgrimage along the iconic Camino de Santiago. The contemporary choral work dramatizes the religious trek from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostella and the final resting place of Saint James. Conducted by Grammy-winner Craig Hella Johnson, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles beautifully balances “excitement, doubt, revelation, fear, and triumph” (Second Inversion).

OBF Chorus - Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Monday, July 3

2:30pm - Berwick Academy Faculty Chamber Music

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

A free chamber music performance on the house from Berwick Academy Faculty!

8:00pm - Bach at the Ballpark with Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass

Location: PK Park - 2800 MLK Jr. Blvd, Eugene, OR

Returning after a sold-out performance in 2018, America’s top brass musicians bring their joyous sound to Eugene’s ballpark. Called “impressive” and “so compelling” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass will perform a tremendously diverse range of music, including John Philip Sousa, Bach, Bernstein, Handel, Elvis, Fats Waller, Michael Jackson, and much more. Stay after the concert for fireworks!

Tickets to this event must be purchased through Emeralds Baseball.
This program is presented in collaboration with Eugene Emeralds Baseball.

Artists, dates, times, rep, and venues are subject to change.

Wednesday, July 5 

1:00pm - “Ambiguous” A vocal concert from Coraine Tate, soprano
 
Location: Berwick Hall - 975 E 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403

A free vocal concert from Coraine Tate, soprano on the house!

6:45pm - LET'S TALK! Germanic Liederabend with Susanna Phillips
 
Location: Frohnmayer Music Building - 163
961 E 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Germanic Liederabend with Susanna Phillips!

7:30pm - Germanic Liederabend with Susanna Phillips
 
Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Soprano Susanna Phillips is one of today’s most sought-after singing actors and recitalists. Her arias are praised as “exquisite” by The New York Times. OBF fans will experience an evening of “mellow richness [and] heartbreaking” (Bachtrack) Germanic liederabend from female composers Hildegard, Clara Schumann, and Alma Mahler. Clarinetist David Shifrin joins for a performance of Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock.

Hildegard von Bingen: O Strength of Wisdom
C. Schumann: Lieder
C. Schumann: Lorelei
C. Schumann: "Notturno" from Soirées musicales
A. Mahler: Five Songs
Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock

Susanna Phillips, soprano
David Shifrin, clarinet
Gloria Chien, piano

Thursday, July 6 

6:45pm - LET'S TALK! Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
 
Location: Frohnmayer Music Building - 163
961 E 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Vivaldi: The Four Seasons!

7:30pm - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
 
Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

From birds awakening to sudden storms, Vivaldi’s wildly popular musical cycle offers a year filled with hope, flowering growth, and the quiet gathering of energy. In one of the most evocative pieces of pastoral music, you will hear singing birds, murmuring streams, drunken country dancers, and so much more. With violin solos from Berwick Academy alumni, The Four Seasons is Baroque music at its most cinematic. Paired with Haydn’s charming and witty “Clock” Symphony.

Górecki: Three Pieces in Old Style
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Amalia: Overture to Erwin und Elmire
Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, "The Clock"

OBF Period Orchestra
Alice Culin-Ellison, violin
Keats Dieffenbach, violin
Toma Lliev, violin
Shelby Yamin, violin
Marc Destrubé, violin and director

Friday, July 7 

2:30pm - Berwick Academy Chamber Music

Location: Berwick Hall - 975 E 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403

A free chamber music performance on the house from the Berwick Academy!

7:30pm - Emerson String Quartet Farewell Tour

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

After 40 years together, Emerson String Quartet will say goodbye in 2023. Celebrate one of world’s premier chamber music ensembles with a new work from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14.
Saturday, July 8

10:00am - “Uncovering the Credo” with Anna Su?kowska-Migo?

Location: Berwick Hall - 975 E 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403

Hinkle Distinguished Lectures provide in-depth conversations with unique Festival insights. Join us for a social event at 10:00 am and the lecture at 10:30 am with Anna Su?kowska-Migo?.

11:45pm - LET'S TALK! Mozart: Paris Symphony

Location: Frohnmayer Music Building - 163
961 E 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Mozart: Paris Symphony!

2:30pm - Mozart: Paris Symphony

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

One of the nation’s finest early music training programs, Berwick Academy for Historically Informed Performance breathes fresh life and new perspectives into Baroque and Classical-era music. Academy musicians present exciting, significant, and thought-provoking works from Joseph Bologne and Marianne von Martínez, as well as the finale of Haydn’s “London” Symphony, and Mozart’s legendary “Paris” Symphony.

Mozart: Overture to The Clemency of Titus
Haydn: Berenice’s Scene
Bologne: Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Haydn: “London” Symphony No. 104 in D Major
Martínez: Sinfonia in C Major
Mozart: Exult, rejoice
Mozart: “Paris” Symphony No. 31 in D Major

Berwick Academy Orchestra
Camille Ortiz, soprano
Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

7:30pm - Brubeck Brothers Quartet

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Soreng Theater
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Rooted in “straight-ahead” jazz, Brubeck Brothers Quartet reveals an inherent ability to explore and play odd time signatures while naturally integrating the influences of funk, blues, and world music. Their creativity, technique, and improvisation can be heard in the uncompromising music of the Time Out album, which reflects their dedication to melody, rhythm, culture, and the spontaneous spirit of jazz.

Sunday, July 9

2:30pm - Silver Celebrations
 
Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts- Silva Concert Hall
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

An afternoon of 25th anniversary celebrations begin with the combined forces of the Stangeland Youth Choral Academy and two decades of the program’s alumni. Several pieces, including a Bach cantata and movements from Handel’s Samson, showcase the work of America’s best high school choral singers. An OBF commission and winner of the Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Credo is a masterclass in powerful, vivid voices. Anna Su?kowska-Migo? brings her “energetic charm” (Le Monde) and personal relationship with the Credo to this 25th anniversary performance.

Gabriel: I Sing Because I'm Happy
Johnson: This House of Peace
J.S. Bach: Selection from Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Handel: Movements from Samson
Clausen: Home
Thomas: Gloria from Mass: A Celebration of Love and Joy
Penderecki: Credo

Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy
Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy Alumni Chorus
OBF Chorus
University of Oregon Chamber Choir
Pacific Youth Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra

Coraine Tate, soprano
Joanna Freszel, soprano
Karolina Sikora, mezzo-soprano
Anna Luba?ska, alto
Rafa? Bartmi?ski, tenor
Wojtek Gierlach, bass

Anton Armstrong, conductor
Anna Su?kowska-Migo?, conductor

Monday, July 10 

7:30pm - Paul Jacobs All-Bach Organ Recital

Central Lutheran Church 1857 Potter St, Eugene, OR 97403

After nearly 10 years, Grammy-winning organist Paul Jacobs continues to be the perennially sold-out favorite of OBF audiences. Called “one of the major musicians of our time” by The New Yorker and “one of the great living virtuosos” by The Washington Post, Jacobs delivers a signature program of all six J.S. Bach organ sonatas.

Tuesday, July 11

7:30pm - An Evening with Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound, and rich character” (The New York Times), clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music’s most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures. In addition to his dynamic international solo and chamber music career, McGill is principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize, and took part in the 2009 inauguration of President Obama. He joins forces with pianist and Chamber Music Northwest co-artistic director Gloria Chien, “who appears to excel at everything,” (The Boston Globe), for an evening of Telemann, Brahms, Jessie Montgomery, and more.

Telemann: Fantasies for Solo Clarinet
Montgomery: Peace
Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano
Teng Yu-hsien/Stephen Hough: Pining for the Spring Breeze
James Lee III: Ad Anah?
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for Clarinet and Piano

This program is presented in collaboration with Chamber Music Northwest.

Wednesday, July 12

7:30pm - Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

For 25 years, Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy has been a flagship educational and training program for the nation’s most talented high school choral singers. Led by Dr. Anton Armstrong, SFYCA performs a variety of works including a complete performance of Bach Cantata 147.

J.S. Bach: Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Johnson: This House of Peace
Thomas: Gloria from Mass: A Celebration of Love and Joy

Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy
OBF Modern Orchestra
Coraine Tate, soprano
Rhianna Cockrell, alto
Steven Soph, tenor
Michael Hix, bass
Anton Armstrong, conductor


Thursday, July 13 

6:45pm - LET'S TALK! Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
 
Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, The Studio
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Strauss: An Alpine Symphony!

Thursday, July 13 

7:30pm - Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
 
Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Journey through the dramatic terrain of Europe’s grand mountain range. Richard Strauss’ tone poem summons an orchestra of 100 musicians to depict an 11-hour trek with rocky summits, waterfalls, a hunting party, a violent storm, and a triumphal return. “Interpretive dynamo” (The New York Times) Eric Jacobsen returns to conduct.

V. Coleman: Fanfare for Uncommon Times
Brahms: Song of Destiny
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

OBF Chorus
OBF Modern Orchestra
Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Friday, July 14 

2:30pm - Organ Interlude with ElRay Stewart-Cook and Lindsey Rodgers

Location: Central Lutheran Church 1857 Potter St, Eugene, OR 97403

A free organ interlude performance on the house!

6:45pm - LET'S TALK! Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Location: Frohnmayer Music Building, 163, 961 E 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier!

7:30pm - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, featuring Angela Hewitt

Location: Beall Concert Hall - 961 East 18th Avenue, Eugene, OR

At 301 years old, Bach’s pedagogical work continues to be one of the most influential volumes of music ever written for keyboard. “There is no greater music,” says Angela Hewitt, one of the foremost Bach interpreters of our time. The recipient of four Juno Awards, the Leipzig Bach Medal, and a member of the Gramophone Magazine Hall of Fame, pianist Hewitt has performed The Well-Tempered Clavier in dozens of countries on six continents. A not-to-be-missed event!

Saturday, July 15 

2:30pm - Organ Institute Showcase
 
Location: First United Methodist Church 1376 Olive St, Eugene, OR 97401

A free organ institute performance on the house!
6:30pm - Young Professionals Night
 
Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, The Studio
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Join us for Young Professionals Night! Included with a Time For Three concert ticket!

7:30pm - Time For Three

Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Soreng Theater
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Defying convention and boundaries, Emmy-winning Time For Three stands at the busy intersection of Americana, modern pop, and classical music. To experience Time For Three live is to hear the various eras, styles, and traditions of Western music fold in on themselves and emerge anew. Bonded by an uncommon blend of their instruments fused together with their voices, Charles Yang (violin, vocals), Nick Kendall (violin, vocals), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass, vocals), have found a unique voice of expression to share with the world.

Sunday, July 16 

1:45pm - LET'S TALK! Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Location: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, The Studio
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Join us for a pre-concert lecture to enhance your listening experience about Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony!

2:30pm - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall
One Eugene Center Eugene, Oregon 97401

Based on the mystical Leaves of Grass poem from Walt Whitman, “A Sea Symphony” is often considered the work that put Ralph Vaughan Williams on the map and established him as one of the most influential figures in English music. Set sail with the “insightful and powerful” (Earrelevant) conductor Gemma New for dramatic fanfare – mourning those lost to the ocean, reveling in jaunty shanties, and marveling at the fearsome power of the sea. “Top-selling artist and one of the busiest pianists on earth,” (Evening Standard) Angela Hewitt joins the program for the Ravel Piano Concerto in G.

Alberga: Arise, Athena!
J.S. Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, arr. Edward Elgar
Ravel: Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1, "A Sea Symphony"

OBF Chorus
University of Oregon Chamber Choir
OBF Modern Orchestra
Angela Hewitt, piano
Susanna Phillips, soprano
Chris Kenney, baritone
Gemma New, conductor

Date: June 30- July 16, 2023

Location: Various Venues in Eugene

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