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courtesy Luther Memorial Church

Seven people standing in a church.

The 2023 Just Bach ensemble.

media release: Just Bach opened the 2024-25 season with JS Bach’s Coffee Cantata, BWV 211: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht. Soloists Julia Rottmayer, soprano; Ryan Nash, tenor; and Ryne Cherry, bass were accompanied by flute, 2 violins, viola, cello, and harpsichord. You can watch the concert video here. Tell your friends about it, so they can enjoy it too!

Exciting concerts later this fall include violist Micah Behr on October 16; music by Amalia Catherina von Erbach performed by Kristin Knutson Berka, soprano, Tim Sterner Miller, lute, and Charlie Rasmussen, viol, on November 20; and on December 11, cantata BWV 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland with a vocal quartet and orchestra. A wonderful line-up of familiar and lesser-known works by J. S. Bach and contemporaries, all performed by the best period performers in Madison!

Just Bach was founded to celebrate and to share with the Madison community at large the immense range of Bach’s vocal and instrumental repertoire. Just Bach presents performers who play and sing using historically-informed performance practice, bringing the music to life in a manner and style with which Bach was familiar. The audience is invited to sing along during the closing chorales – because group singing is therapeutic!

Just Bach presents free concerts on Wednesday once a month during the school year as part of the free weekly noontime concert series, Music at Midday, presented by Luther Memorial Church in Madison. Our regular season concerts are presented in-person and recorded; the recorded concert videos are posted on the Just Bach YouTube channel on Friday following the concert.

We are extremely grateful to Pastor Brad Pohlman, music director Andrew Schaeffer, and the congregation of Luther Memorial Church for hosting Music at Midday, and for including Just Bach as a regular part of the series. Special thanks go to Dave Parminter, who records the videos. We invite the Madison community to spend a half-hour with the sublime music of J.S. Bach and hope you will find our performances of Bach’s music to be centering and inspiring.

Just Bach is supported by Isthmus Eats, Luther Memorial Church, WORT, and by contributions from attendees and supporters. This project is also supported by Dane County Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation; and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. THANK YOU!