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And this year, introducing the first of the “New Brandenburgs,” contemporary companion pieces inspired by Bach’s original concertos.
Find out why Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are “as powerful to me as any rock ‘n’ roll song, as energizing as any techno dance music, as driving and thrilling as any punk or heavy metal.”
What could be better than starting your day with gentle yoga accompanied by Bach’s cello suites?
We revive the tradition of combining good drink, good friends, and great classical music at Bunker Brewing Company.
And this year, introducing the first of the “New Brandenburgs,” contemporary companion pieces inspired by Bach’s original concertos.
Find out why Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are “as powerful to me as any rock ‘n’ roll song, as energizing as any techno dance music, as driving and thrilling as any punk or heavy metal.”
Reimagine the string quartet with Haydn’s Op. 71 and a world premiere commission.
Reimagine the string quartet with Haydn’s Op. 71 and a world premiere commission.
A trailblazing production featuring GRAMMY-winner Sarah Brailey and the Flying Gravity Circus.
A trailblazing production featuring GRAMMY-winner Sarah Brailey and the Flying Gravity Circus.
What could be better than starting your day with gentle yoga accompanied by Bach’s cello suites?
Explore sights and sounds from the Big Bang through music and art.
Join a GRAMMY-winner for an intimate, magical evening of her favorite songs and stories.
Come explore the counterpoint and connections between early music and traditional music from around the world.
You determine which way to go and what to hear in this musical labyrinth.
What could be better than starting your day with gentle yoga accompanied by Bach’s cello suites?
Why sit still when you can dance?! Stories, songs, and movement teach the basic elements of music.
Come explore the counterpoint and connections between early music and traditional music from around the world.
You determine which way to go and what to hear in this musical labyrinth.
Explore the connective musical elements of classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from around the world.
Explore the connective musical elements of classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from around the world.
We revive the tradition of combining good drink, good friends, and great classical music at Foulmouthed Brewing
Experience the exhilarating energy and explosive joy of Bach’s impressive work, featuring GRAMMY-winning violinist Mandy Wolman
What could be better than starting your day with gentle yoga accompanied by Bach’s cello suites?
Experience the exhilarating energy and explosive joy of Bach’s impressive work, featuring GRAMMY-winning violinist Mandy Wolman
A concert with stories, songs, movement, and great music followed by everyone’s favorite dessert — ice cream!
Artistic Director Emily Isaacson walks us through Bach’s masterwork
Find out why generations of musicians find inspiration in Bach’s music and how the master crossed musical frontiers
Find out why generations of musicians find inspiration in Bach’s music and how the master crossed musical frontiers
Transform your experience and understanding of sound and learn how you can take action to save our seasons!
Join the Cramer Trio to rediscover the music of 18th-century sensation Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
Featuring GRAMMY-nominated violinist Jesse Irons, explore the seasons and climate change through sound
Transform your experience and understanding of sound and learn how you can take action to save our seasons!
Join the Cramer Trio to rediscover the music of 18th-century sensation Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
Join the Cramer Trio to rediscover the music of 18th-century sensation Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
A comedic world of lovers, fairies, and misunderstandings takes to the virtual concert stage
Over 20 local organizations come together to celebrate strength, vitality, and community!
An immersive event for the entire family featuring a Nutcracker dance-along with live symphonic orchestra and prima ballerinas.
Brick South at Thompson’s Point, Portland
Masterpieces by the Bach family featuring Palaver Strings, Chamber Orchestra, and Hidenori Inoue, bass.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary, Falmouth
Music and Beer Pairings featuring Geary’s Brewing Co.
United States Customs House
Children learn about tempo, dynamics, and pitch by singing and dancing.
Free and family friendly!
United States Customs House
An evening of art, wine, and musical revelry.
Cove Street Arts
Travel the continent while never leaving your chair. Experience the chamber music from the most notable living rooms of Baroque Paris, London, Venice, and Hamburg.
Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells
Take a journey through one of the most devastating periods in European history through the letters, poems, speeches, and songs written at the time in this multimedia concert.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Noted for his “crystalline diction and pure, evenly produced tone” (Miami Herald), as well as “elaborate and inventive ornamentation” (South Florida Classical Review), Mobley is one of the star countertenors of Europe.
Private home, Harpswell - location revealed after purchase
Give an experience the whole family can enjoy! Offering children’s music education programming, babysitting, and entrance to the salon.
Private home - address revealed after ticket purchase
An experience the whole family can enjoy!
Private home - address revealed after ticket purchase
Take a journey through one of the most devastating periods in European history through the letters, poems, speeches, and songs written at the time in this multimedia concert.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Free and open to the public - watch the artists at work.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Learn more about the music from the war that forever changed the map of Europe and the minds of its citizens forever.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
An overview of European religious history in the late 16th and early 17th century with Dr. Christy Thomas.
Blue Spoon Cafe
Noted for his “crystalline diction and pure, evenly produced tone” (Miami Herald), as well as “elaborate and inventive ornamentation” (South Florida Classical Review), Mobley is one of the star countertenors of Europe.
Greenhut Galleries
There is a long history in classical music of combining good drink, good friends and great music. We revive the tradition at the stunning Customs House by pairing local brews with short musical interludes.
United States Customs House
Children learn about tempo, dynamics, and pitch by singing and dancing.
United States Customs House
Hear the acclaimed brass quintet praised for its “rare, mixture of lyricism and movement” (New York Times) and “a purity of tone and perfection in tuning that must be heard to be believed.” (San Francisco Early Music)
Machias Savings Bank Lounge, Middle Street
Hear the music from the court of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga with works by Monteverdi, Marenzio, and Salamone Rossi.
The Highlands - Holden Frost Ballroom, Topsham
Join the Dark Horse Consort and learn about the original brass and wind instruments of the 17th-century.
Jewish Community Alliance
Hear the work as Monteverdi imagined it: sung one-on-a-part and performed on period instruments.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Join us for brunch, locally-roasted coffee, and Bach’s beloved secular cantata about everyday people and one daughter’s coffee habit.
Portland Museum of Art
Hear the music from the court of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga with works by Monteverdi, Marenzio, and Salamone Rossi.
Private location - address revealed after ticket purchase
In one day, A Suite Ride through Portland will present all six of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites in different public locations throughout greater Portland. Free, open, and in unconventional spaces, some audience may attend all of the experiences while others may discover the art by chance.
Multiple locations
Hear the work as Monteverdi imagined it: sung one-on-a-part and performed on period instruments.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Free and open to the public - watch the artists at work.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Offering children’s music education, babysitting, and a salon all in one!
Private location - address revealed after ticket purchase
Experience the Portland Bach Experience salon with Folk Baroque Trio - Joy Grimes (violin), Emily Rideout (viola), and Zoe Weiss (viola da gamba).
Private location - address revealed after ticket purchase
Experience the Portland Bach Experience salon in Boston with Folk Baroque Trio - Joy Grimes (violin), Emily Rideout (viola), and Zoe Weiss (viola da gamba).
Private location - address revealed after ticket purchase
In the 1690s Bach was a bad boy teenager - drinking, skipping school, and getting in fights. We celebrate this rebellious spirit with an evening of illicit debauchery - just like we used to in the 1990s.
Think Tank Coworking
Join PBE Founder & Artistic Director Emily Isaacson for musical games, story time, and birthday cake in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach's 334th birthday!
Portland Public Library
Join us for a brunch salon in Portland’s West End featuring Sarah Darling and John McKean.
Private home
Featuring Anachronism: returning PBE artists Sarah Darling, Jesse Irons, and Michael Unterman with award-winning soprano Ava Pine and harpsichordist John McKean.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Enjoy 5 x 5-minute concerts paired with local brews. Free and family friendly!
Rising Tide Brewing Company
John McKean, the harpsichord builder from the Longy School of Music at Bard College, hosts this lecture/demonstration.
Rising Tide Brewing Company
A Suite Ride Through Portland returns! Portland Bach Experience partners with Portland Trails and 240 Strings to bring you free concerts in open, unconventional public spaces throughout the city. Free and family friendly!
Multiple locations
Hear the beloved work that revolutionized music by representing the sounds of nature: flowing creeks, singing bird, barking dogs, frozen landscapes and warming fires.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Hear the beloved work that revolutionized music by representing the sounds of nature: flowing creeks, singing bird, barking dogs, frozen landscapes and warming fires.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Featuring James Kennerley, Harpsichord, and Diderot String Quartet on period instruments.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
In one day, A Suite Ride through Portland will present all six of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites in different public locations throughout greater Portland. Free, open, and in unconventional public spaces, some audience may attend all six experiences while others may discover the art by chance.
Multiple locations
Diderot String Quartet performs excerpts of Die Kunst der Fuge: a feat of mathematical genius & artistic beauty and the culmination of Bach's fascination with the musical possibilities of a single theme.
Private home
There is a long history in classical music of combining good drink, good friends and great music. We revive the tradition at the stunning Portland Customs House by pairing local brews with short musical interludes.
United States Customs House
Diderot String Quartet discusses The Art of Fugue, Bach’s feat of mathematical genius and
artistic beauty. Free and open to the public.
Creative Portland
Just like the nobles of Europe, let the intimate sounds of the lute and soloists Jesse Blumberg, Kate Maroney, and Sarah Brailey entertain you while you sip fine wine.
Little Giant
Artistic Director Emily Isaacson reads two of her favorite books about music and shares some of her favorite stories set to music. Free and family friendly.
Creative Portland
Featuring Priscilla Herreid, oboe, called "...a thing of special beauty" by the New York Times.
Greenhut Galleries
A trio of trumpets, choir, vocal soloists and full baroque orchestra herald in the 2018 Portland Bach Experience.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
Join us for brunch, locally-roasted coffee, and Bach’s beloved secular cantata about everyday people and one daughter’s coffee habit.
Portland Museum of Art
A trio of trumpets, choir, vocal soloists and full baroque orchestra herald in the 2018 Portland Bach Experience.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
A trio of trumpets, choir, vocal soloists and full baroque orchestra herald in the 2018 Portland Bach Experience.
The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary
The famous event is back! 5x5-minute concerts in a bowling alley. Family friendly. Dancing encouraged.
Bayside Bowl
Warp Trio and Nate Tucker share an exciting electric program that explores the intersection between Bach, Beethoven and Bill Evans.
Maine College of Art
Hear the famous Bach Double Violin Concerto played by the celebrated Arneis Quartet.
Described in Free Times as "A talented group that exemplifies the genre-obliterating direction of contemporary classical music," Warp Trio lies at the intersection of a chamber music ensemble, rock band and art project. Guest Star, Nate Tucker.
Mini-concerts by the Arneis Quartet performed during First Friday Art Walk. Admission to the museum is free on Fridays starting at 4pm.
Portland Museum of Art
Come find out what the future of classical music sounds like. Warp Trio will discuss the classical influences within their original compositions.
One Longfellow Square
