Idaho Bach Festival 2017
The Idaho Bach Festival is pleased to announce that the 2017 Idaho Bach Scholar is Lucas Harris.
Lucas Harris studied the lute and early music at the Civica scuola di musica di Milano (as a Marco Fodella Fountain scholar) and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In addition to being the regular lutenist with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, he collaborates with many other ensembles. He is the founder of the 'pluck band' known as the Toronto Continuo Collective (www.continuo.ca), as well as the Southern Italian folk group known as the Vesuvius Ensemble. Recent recordings include the solo CD Baroque Lute Recital as well as a collaboration with violinist Geneviève Gilardeau, The Bach/Weiss Sonata.
Lucas is a regular faculty member of the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute as well as Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute, and has recently joined the faculty of the Vancouver Early Music Festival's Baroque Vocal Programme. Lucas has been a guest music director with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Ohio State University Opera program, and Les Voix Baroques, and also directed "The Emperor's Chapel" with the Toronto Consort in February 2015. He has just completed his M.M. in choral conducting at the University of Toronto with Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, funded by a prestigious SSHRC research grant. He is pleased to have been appointed the new Artistic Director of the Toronto Chamber Choir beginning this season.
Miranda Wilson and Christopher Pfund Co-Artistic Directors
Lucas Harris, 2017 Bach Scholar
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017
7:30 p.m
Opening Gala Concert
Haddock Performance Hall
Friday, Jan. 13, 2017
10:30 a.m.
Guitar Masterclass with Lucas Harris
Haddock Performance Hall
Friday, Jan. 13, 2017
12 p.m.
Bach in the Round - Student Concert
Idaho Commons Rotunda
Friday, Jan. 13, 2017
3:30 p.m.
Continuo Masterclass with Lucas Harris
Haddock Performance Hall
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017
12 p.m.
Organ Recital
First Presbyterian Church
405 S. Van Buren St. Moscow
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017
7:30 p.m.
Closing Gala Concert
Haddock Performance Hall
For more information on how to submit musical and/or session proposals, please contact Christopher Pfund at cpfund@uidaho.edu or Miranda Wilson at mirandaw@uidaho.edu.