Classical Music - Orchestra - Traditional Music Events in Peoria, United States

Join us for our annual Festival Concert featuring the Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra and Choir. For over 20 years we have brought remarkable musicians together to perform the living legacy of the Bach family. This year's Festival Concert gathers that tradition into a ..

This year our lecture/demonstration recital explores the history, construction, tonal colors, and music of Bach's primary instrument, the pipe organ. Some of Bach's early organ music will be performed along with works by organists that he either knew or by whom he wa ..

Once again, our vibrant community of college and amateur musicians will share with us their wonderful music. The Peoria Bach Festival's annual Community Concert celebrates these dedicated performers-people who make music not necessarily for a grade or a career, but f ..

Virtuoso pianist John Orfe will lead us in a dazzling Bach-inspired journey, tracing the master's far-reaching influence across centuries and styles. The program will include arrangements by Brahms of music by Bach and Handel. The result will be a richly layered prog ..

The German musical world in the early 1700s was a lively web of collaboration, competition, admiration, and the occasional professional snub-and no one stood at the crossroads of these relationships more than Johann Sebastian Bach. Entitled Friends and Rivals, this p ..

Over the past 20 years hundreds of young musicians have courageously shared their talent, artistry, and love for great music at our annual Young Musicians Concert. This year we continue that joyful tradition by bringing together more outstanding students from across ..

Join us for our annual Bach organ concert, a tradition begun by Tom Clark Jones that now links the Gretchen R. Iben Concert Series with the Peoria Bach Festival. Hear works by Bach and his contemporaries performed on Westminster’s magnificent Visser‑Rowland organ, cr ..

The Peoria Bach Festival 2025 concludes with a grand finale-the annual Festival Concert featuring the Peoria Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra. This year's program is a celebration of Bach's rich legacy, featuring Orchestral Suite No. 1 and a stirring cello concerto ..

The Peoria Bach Festival 2024 will be held from June 2-7 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1420 W. Moss Ave., Peoria, IL 61606. It will feature six concerts for all ages and two informative lectures. The festival will begin with an organ concert by POLLY BRECHT on ..