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Estonian Chamber Music Society and Artistic Director of festival bachFest Aare-Paul Lattik presents:
bachFest 2024

The 13th Tallinn International Festival of Johann Sebastian Bach and the Music of his Era bachFest comes again with music that will keep your New Year's Eve spirit alive until the last chord of festival, that offers to you
an exciting program with several Estonian premieres and the best artists from home and abroad.

January 1st 5 PM St.John’s Church Tallinn
NEW YEARS’ CONCERT
 
Marta Paklar soprano
Aare-Paul Lattik organ
Estonian Sinfonietta Soloists
Bach, Brixi, Mouret
 

Estonian soprano Marta Paklar is known for her uniquely clear and bright colour of voice. She is rapidly acquiring a reputation as both a soloist and ensemble singer, working regularly with a number of ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Collegium1704.

Aare-Paul Lattik in one of the most outstanding Estonian organist, who, among his diversified repertoire, is dedicated especially to the interpretation of French organ music.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 2nd 6 PM Tallinn Dome Church
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
 
Adriana Babin pan flute, Moldova
Aare-Paul Lattik organ
Bach, Zamfir, Chaplin
 

Adriana Babin is a Moldovan born pan flutist.
At eight years old, Adriana had already given her first concert as a soloist with a national folk orchestra. She finished her studies the most prestigious Moldovan music lyceum Ciprian Porumbescu with professor Ion Negura. Completed two years of Panflute at "George Enescu" Conservatory from Romania, studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands between 2021-2022 and now studies Panflute at the Conservatory of Fine Arts in Chisinau, Moldova.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 3rd 6 PM House of the Blackheads
ACCOMPANIED BY YOUR GUITAR
 
Kirill Ogorodnikov guitar
Kaija Lukas violin
Mari-Liis Vind flute
Bach, Weiss, Meder, Uusberg (premiere)
 

The trio's varied programme includes one of the world's premieres

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 4th 6 PM House of the Blackheads
J.S.BACH & BEYOND: A WELL-TEMPERED CONVERSATION
 
Julien Libeer piano, Belgium
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Ligeti, Schönberg
 

To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Julien Libeer had the idea of presenting it in an unusual light: here he initiates a dialogue in which Bach’s major-key prelude-and-fugue pairs ‘converse’ with later pieces (in the corresponding minor keys) by composers who, in their own way, have built upon the advances Johann Sebastian made in his foundational undertaking. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Ligeti, and Schoenberg are all part of the conversation with the Leipzig Cantor in this intricate play of mirrors…

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 5th 6 PM Tallinn Dome Church
THE SOUNDS OF CATHEDRAL
 
Aigars Reinis organ, Latvia
Ilse Reine organ, Latvia
Bach, Kalējs
 

The mystical sounds of Riga Cathedral are brought to Tallinn by a Latvian organ duo renowned around the world for their enticing musicality and technical perfection.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 6th 6 PM Tallinn Dome Church
WITH LOVE FROM LONDON!
 
Jonathan Scott organ, United Kingdom
Bach, Purcell, Händel, Pachelbel
 

Jonathan Scott enjoys a hugely varied international performing career on a diverse spectrum of keyboard instruments with a repertoire spanning over 500 years of music, including a catalogue of over 400 of his own transcriptions and arrangements.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.


January 7th 6 PM House of the Blackheads
MAGNIFICENT!
 
François Lazarevitch musett de cour, baroque flute, France
bachFest Consort
    Kaido Välja violin
    Miina Laanesaar violin
    Helena Altmanis viola
    Tõnu Jõesaar cello
    Imre Eenma double bass
Bach, Boismortier, Vivaldi, Corrette, Pachelbel
 

French flutist and bagpiper François Lazarevitch has expanded his range of interests to include traditional music from the European past and its interactions with what is known as Baroque music. He is the artistic director and leader of the ensemble Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, which he founded in 2005.

Tickets are available at Piletilevi and at the concert venue an hour before.