American Bach Soloists
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| American Bach Soloists (ABS) | |
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| Chamber orchestra on period instruments | |
| File:ABS logo gold.gif Official American Bach Soloists logo | |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Principal conductor | Jeffrey Thomas |
| Website | americanbach |
The American Bach Soloists ("ABS") is an American baroque orchestra dedicated to preserving the heritage of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries through historically informed performances on period instruments. Founded in Belvedere, California in 1989 with the mission of introducing contemporary audiences to Bach's cantatas, co-founder and artistic director Jeffrey Thomas has since expanded the artistic direction of the ensemble to include Bach’s purely instrumental and larger choral masterpieces, as well as music of his contemporaries and that of the early Classical era.[1] The ensemble's acclaimed chorus was renamed the American Bach Choir in 2006.[2]
Collaborations
- Performances at the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
- Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas with the San Francisco Opera Center and The Crucible in Oakland, CA
- Works by Claudio Monteverdi, George Frideric Handel's Dixit Dominus, and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts with the Mark Morris Dance Group
- George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks with laser lighting display by Lighting Systems Design, Inc. (Orlando, FL) in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
References
- ^ "A Boost to the Country's Early-Music Capital" by David Littlejohn, The Wall Street Journal July 13, 2013.
- ^ "American Bach Soloists: About Us". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
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