WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERTS JANUARY 7, 2024

The 2023 Winter Solstice concerts feature two major works by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as motets and choral settings by Cherubini, Gibbons, F.J. Haydn, Holst, Liszt, Reichardt and Victoria. Artistic Director Franz Vote leads members of the New Mexico Bach Society Chorale and Orchestra in this beautiful program of music for the holiday season:

J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BWV 1049 and Mass in A BWV 234

Veni Jesu                                 Luigi Cherubini
Magnificat                              Orlando Gibbons
Ave Maria                               Franz Joseph Haydn
In the bleak mid-winter       Gustav Holst
Ave verum corpus                 Franz Liszt
Heilige Nacht                         Johann Friedrich Reichardt
O Magnum Mysterium        Tomas Luis de Victoria

ARTIST ROSTER
New Mexico Bach Society
Franz Vote, Artistic Director and Conductor

NM Bach Society Chorale
Jennifer Perez and Camille Tierney, sopranos
Alyssa Mayer Anaya and Carla Bond, altos
Greg Gallagher and Jonah Mendelsohn, tenors
Andrew Paulson and Tim Willson, basses

NM Bach Society Orchestra
Linda Marianiello and Valerie Potter, flutes
Elizabeth Baker, concertmaster
Megan Holland, violin 1
Lidja Peno Kelly, violin 2
Joyce Huang, viola
Joel Becktell, cello
Aimee Fincher, keyboards