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Ottawa Bach Choir – The Ottawa Bach Choir invites music-lovers to St. Matthew’s Anglican Church on Friday evening, April 18, 8:00 pm, for a splendid concert of choral music by the choir’s namesake, J. S. Bach. Two of Bach’s exciting cantatas, Christ lag in Todes Banden (BWV 4) and Jesu, der du meine Seele (BWV 78) are the central works in this concert along with Bach’s five-part motet, Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227).

“This is such an exciting project for the choir and one which we’ve been looking forward to for a long time. To be able to perform and record some of Bach’s most beloved repertoire with such a roster of prominent soloists and instrumentalists, most of whom hail from Canada, is this season’s highlight. It is not only Bach’s technical mastery of Baroque counterpoint that inspires us in this beloved music, but his ability to transform us on the emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels. We emerge differently after experiencing this music, and that is the power and splendour of Bach,” says Founder and Artistic Director, Dr. Lisette Canton.”

The Ottawa Bach Choir (OBC), founded in 2002 and acclaimed as Ottawa’s best choral ensemble, has already achieved national and international recognition. Now completing its sixth season, the choir has completed two successful European tours, both of which included three-day engagements in Bach’s own church, the Thomaskirche, in Leipzig. The choir also performed in Bayreuth, Vienna, Salzburg, Stuttgart and Prague. The choir is already planning its next European tour in June 2009, with invitations to return to Leipzig, Paris, London, Cambridge and Oxford. Here in North America, the OBC has performed by invitation in the Montreal Bach Festival, the choir and organ series at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the Musique Saint-Bernard concert series in Nova Scotia, and in Mexico City. The choir has been invited to perform this May at Podium 2008, the biannual conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. In addition to its public performances, the OBC has an extensive educational outreach programme, which has taken choral music in both concert and workshop presentations into many Ottawa elementary and high schools.

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