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Home – Pacific Baroque Festival 2025: Peace, Friendship and Joy
St Barnabas Church, Victoria BC 1525 Begbie St, Victoria, BC, CanadaOpening concert of Pacific Baroque Festival 2025 featuring organist Aaron James (Toronto) performing works written for intimate spaces on St Barnabas Church's exquisite Brombaugh organ. World travel may have its attractions, but in the end there’s no place like home. In the privacy of a comfortable music room, Baroque keyboard players could explore musical ideas […]
Peace – Pacific Baroque Festival 2025: Peace, Friendship and Joy
Alix Goolden Performanace Hall 900 Johnson St, Victoria, BC, CanadaAcclaimed soprano Dorothee Mields (Germany) and the ensemble La Modestine will explore heartfelt works inspired by the 30 Years War. The German Reformation initiated by Martin Luther, along with the invention of the printing press, led to religious and cultural unrest, culminating in the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). Remarkably, the turbulence of one of the […]
Joy – Pacific Baroque Festival 2025: Peace, Friendship and Joy
Alix Goolden Performanace Hall 900 Johnson St, Victoria, BC, CanadaFeaturing 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 […]