Bach and Beer - a perfect combination! Key Chorale Chamber Singers and Church of the Redeemer presents its unique take on Oktoberfest, with a 3-day festival celebrating the music and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. Enjoy four amazing concerts featuring the stunning virtuosity of soprano Mary Wilson, trumpeter Aaron Romm, vocalists, and chamber orchestra. Concluding with a Biergarten Experience of German food, beers from Calusa Brewing, and music from Bill Milner’s Oompah Band. See individual concert listings for more information.

Featuring Guest Artists Aaron Romm, Mary Wilson, Thea Lobo, Matt Morgan and David Tinervia.

Save 15% when you purchase the $200 3-day pass!

A quartet of soloists, trumpet, flute, oboe and violin provides a festive sparkle to one of Bach’s most popular orchestral works, his Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. The Key Chorale Chamber Singers perform Bach’s joyful double choir motet and one of Bach’s earliest and most intricate cantatas written.

Repertoire:

Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BWV 1047

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing unto the Lord a new song) BWV 225

Cantata No. 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (My heart was deeply troubled) BWV 21

Tickets: $15-$45, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free

Organist Sam Nelson comes from a long lineage of Red-Blooded Bach interpreters. This concert will feature Sam playing some of Bach’s most well-known organ works in a way that you’ve never heard before; all on Church of the Redeemer’s pipe organ—the largest pipe organ in Sarasota. Forget all your preconceptions about organ music and bask in the kaleidoscope that is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach!

Tickets: $25, includes lunch

A rare opportunity in Sarasota—baroque music on instruments made during the time of J.S. Bach. Gut strings, musical delicacy and nuance, and buttery tonalities will all be a part of this special chamber music concert. Featuring multiple harpsichords and a baroque chamber ensemble on period instruments. The concert concludes with Bach’s most musically complex motet for SSATB and continuo, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, performed using one voice per part.

Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy) featuring soloists Mary Wilson, Lily Wohl, Thea Lobo, Matt Morgan and David Tinervia.

Tickets: $15-$45, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free

Voices, trumpets and timpani ring out with joy as we celebrate the 300th anniversary of Bach’s mighty Magnificat. Soprano Mary Wilson’s dazzling coloratura extends to a heavenly high C in Bach’s only cantata scored for solo trumpet and soprano. Plus, the Chamber Singers’ luminous voices soar bringing out Bach’s dramatic and antiphonal effects.

Repertoire:

Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! (Shout for joy to God in all lands!) BWV 51 featuring guest artists Aaron Romm & Mary Wilson

Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (The Spirit gives aid to our weakness) BWV 226

Magnificat in D Major BWV 243

Tickets: $15-$45, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free

A Biergarten Experience of German food, beers from Calusa Brewing, and music from Bill Milner’s Oompah Band.

Tickets: $40

Enjoy performances by Key Chorale’s Chamber Singers, 2023/24 Student Scholars and a special operatic tribute to Maestro DeRenzi. There will also be an opportunity to learn more about our award-winning community and educational outreach and to sponsor a Student Scholar for the season.

2023 Perfect Pitch Honoree - Maestro Victor DeRenzi - Celebrating 40 seasons as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Sarasota Opera

Tickets: $100-$5000

Wintertide blends Spanish and Mexican carols in Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies with John Rutter’s chilly choral cycle When Icicles Hang. Key Chorale and The Sarasota Ballet Studio Company entwine dance and music for this uncommon program celebrating the blue nights of winter and the magic of the season.

Featuring Classical Guitarist Paul Moeller

Repertoire:

Carols and Lullabies - Conrad Susa

When Icicles Hang - John Rutter

Tickets: $20-$55, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free

Witness the US Premiere of The Legend of Bijan and Manijeh by Iranian composer Farhad Poupel, for piano, choir, and orchestra, with concert pianist Jeffrey Biegel. This evocative work is based on an ancient Persian love story taken from the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), an epic poem by Persian poet Ferdowsi written between 977 and 1010 CE. Other love stories, mythical and historical, are brought to life through music of the great composers.

Repertoire:

The Legend of Bijan and Manijeh - Farhad Poupel

The Captive Queen - Jean Sibelius

Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler

Tickets: $35-$45, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free

Celebrate the power of choral music through an inspired performance by more than 200 singers of all ages, from high school students to seniors. This intergenerational choral festival has inspired countless high school students by encouraging music-making at the highest level. Hear some of the very best repertoire of the season from the Booker, Riverview, and Sarasota High School choirs performing separately and alongside Key Chorale.

All Tickets $10

Student Scholar Soirée showcasing Key Chorale’s Student Scholars in recital. Come support and cheer our musicians of tomorrow as they present classical and musical theater selections demonstrating the culmination of their studies with voice teachers and masterclasses with guest artists. Enjoy great music with cocktails and light bites.

Tickets: $25, Students $10

Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen are two of the most popular and performed choral composers of our time. Join the Key Chorale Chamber Singers and Modern Marimba as they present some of their most hauntingly beautiful works full of memorable, spine-tingling harmonies. Hear the Florida premiere of Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Lauridsen’s masterpiece inspired by light, Lux Aeterna.

Featuring Principal Keyboardist Glenn Priest and the musicians of Modern Marimba

Repertoire:

Lux Aeterna - Morten Lauridsen

Lux Aurumque, Seal Lullaby, Home, Sing Gently - Eric Whitacre

Tickets: $35-$45, College Students $10 at the door, Students under 18 Free