The Chelsea Music Festival returns to lower Manhattan in its ninth annual summer season with the theme—

BACH333

Inspired by J. S. Bach's 333rd birthday, the 2019 Festival celebrates this Master of Adoration, Variation, and Transformation.
Festival musicians, chefs, and visual artists explore the profound output of Bach’s work and play on ideas of variation, transformation as well as the number three.

To mark Bach’s 333rd anniversary, the Festival features events such as “333 minutes of Bach” and the performance of 333 Bach chorales throughout the entire Festival. We welcome to the Festival stage cellist Matt Haimovitz, poet Dana Gioia, the Barkada Saxophone Quartet, chef Eric Takahashi, and visual artist Amy Pleasant.


Composer-in-Residence—
Aaron Jay Kernis

Culinary Artist-in-Residence—
Eric Takahashi

Ensemble-in-Residence—
Barkada Quartet

Visual Artist-in-Residence—
Amy Pleasant

Click HERE for a YouTube playlist of Bach’s works performed at the Chelsea Music Festival


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