Joy – Pacific Baroque Festival 2025: Peace, Friendship and Joy

Featuring the music of J. S. Bach to help the Festival celebrate the start of its third decade! This program includes one of J.S. Bach’s best-loved cantatas, the “wedding” cantata, BWV 202, along with the sunny violin concerto in E Major, and a ‘fictive’ wedding cantata compiled by acclaimed soprano Dorothee Mields of individual movements from other Bach works. A feast of joyful music!

“Soprano Dorothee Mields is an artist of the absolutely highest caliber and one who has an innate understanding of the music of the North-German Baroque. Her vocal instrument is flawless: pure and transparent in timbre, yet capable of the most subtle inflections and cultivated shadings. She can find both radiant sweetness and compelling emotional depth, attributes that are particularly important in a repertoire where small regional variations can imply notable harmonic differences.” – Vancouver Classical Music 2016