The Bach Collegium Japan with Great Performers in Toulouse

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its inspiring musical director, with the aim of introducing Japanese audiences to interpretations of the great works of the Baroque period. Comprised of both a period instrument orchestra and a choir, its activities include an annual concert series of Bach cantatas and several instrumental programs.

This widely awarded ensemble now explores the classical repertoire, having released a recording of Mozart’s Requiem in November 2014, followed by recordings of Mozart’s Grande Messe in C minor, which won the 2017 Gramophone Awards choral category, and then of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9.

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Mozart on the program

Mozart is also on the program for his visit to Toulouse in the Great Performers season with the “Requiem”, the “Symphony No. 40” and the “Ave verum Corpus”.
Alongside the Bach Collegium Japan orchestra and choir, several soloists are participating in this evening at the Halle aux Grains. Equally at ease on the concert and opera stages, soprano Carolyn Sampson will be accompanied by mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, artistic director of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival and associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. music. Japanese tenor Shimon Yoshida and German bass-baritone Doninik Wormer complete the cast, led by Masato Suzuki, principal conductor of the Bach Collegium Japan, partner of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and designated principal conductor of the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra since April 2023. Executive producer of the Chofu International Music Festival, he is also a director and composer,