Northwest BachFest announces September concerts of the 2024/25 season, Saturday, September 7 and Sunday, September 8, 2024. Community engagement activities will take place throughout the week of September 3-8. Guest artist Awadagin Pratt, piano,  will be the featured artist at Spokane Symphony’s season opening concert the week following BachFest performances.

Northwest BachFest presents Grammy Award Winning pianist Awadagin Pratt in concert. Grammy-Award winning BachFest Artistic Director Zuill Bailey, cello, will perform with Pratt on both concerts.

Multi-Grammy winning Awadagin Pratt’s most recent Grammy win in February 2024 was for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for “Montgomery: Rounds,” performed with “A Far Cry,” a Grammy nominated conductorless chamber orchestra, and composed by Jessie Montgomery. The piece was commissioned by Pratt's Art of the Piano Foundation and written especially for him by Montgomery.

Schedule of Events:

Saturday, September 7 at 7:00pm

Awadagin Pratt, piano, with Zuill Bailey, cello

Seeking the Divine
Zuill Bailey, cello, will also perform. The program includes works by ARVO PÄRT, BRAHMS, MESSIAEN, BEETHOVEN 

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano (Mirror in the Mirror)
Johannes Brahms – Four Ballades for Solo Piano, Op. 10

D minor – Andante
D Major – Andante
B minor – Intermezzo. Allegro
B Major – Andante con moto

—intermission—

Oliver Messiaen - Louange a l’Eternite de Jesus from Quartet for the End of Time
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral Symphony)
 
Allegro ma non troppo (Joyful Feelings on Arrival in the Countryside)
Andante molto mosso (By the Brook)
Allegro (Peasant Merrymaking)
Allegro (The Thunderstorm)
Allegretto (The Shepherd’s Song After the Storm)

General Admission: Early Purchase Special $40 ($45 after August 15) Students: $10 (Student tickets only at the concert.)  
 
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Sunday, September 8 at 3:00pm

Bailey, cello, and Awadagin Pratt, piano

Bach to Basics
The program includes music by BACH, SCHUBERT, COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, BEETHOVEN 

J.S. Bach – Concerto for Keyboard in A Major, No. 4, BWV 1055

Allegro
Larghetto
Allegro ma non tanto

Franz Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821 for Cello and Piano

Allegro moderato
Adagio
Allegretto

--intermission—

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  - Variations in B minor for Cello and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven  -  Sonata for Cello No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69

Allegro ma non tanto
Scherzo. Allegro molto
Adagio cantibile – Allegro vivace

General Admission: $45, Students: $10 (Student tickets only at the concert.)   

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Date: September 7-8, 2024

Time:

Saturday, 7:00pm
Sunday, 3:00pm

Location: Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave., Spokane

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