Lexington Bach Festival 2025: A Grand Celebration

September 10-14, 2025 – Various times and locations

Enjoy the entire Bach Festival concert series and save $10! Features free String Quartet performances in Lexington on Wednesday and Port Huron on Thursday, and tickets to all three concerts from Friday to Sunday at the St. Denis Catholic Church in Lexington.

2025 Bach Festival is Sponsored By

The Croswell Lexington High School Symphony Orchestra will be performing a piece written specifically for them sponsored in part by the Lexington Arts Council.

The Lexington Bach Festival String Quartet will be playing the following pieces:

J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Melody Wootton, Violin)
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem Domine
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B 179 (American)

J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Melody Wootton, Violin)
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem Domine
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B 179 (American)

J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Melody Wootton, Violin)
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem Domine
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B 179 (American)

Claudia Francesca Rusca/D. Puccini: Adoramus te Christe à 5
Claudia Francesca Rusca/D. Puccini: Canzon Prima La Borromea à 4
Madalena Casulana/D. Puccini: Suite of Madrigals
Barbara Strozzi/C. Sansolo: L'usignuolo
T. Patrick Carrabré: “Water” from Heavy Metals Suite
Lillian Yee: Miracles of The Human Condition
Astor Piazzolla/D. Puccini: Suite del Ángel

6:15pm • Pre-concert talk with John Thomas Dodson

Georg Fridrich Handel: Overture to The Occasional Oratorio
Felix Mendelssohn: Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
J. S. Bach: Vor deinen Thron trett’ ich hiermit, BWV 688
J. S. Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243

3:45pm • Pre-concert talk with John Thomas Dodson

Ottorino Respighi: Gli uccelli (The Birds)
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
(Melissa Mashner, Jenny Robinson, Flutes; Konrad Kowal, Violin)
Clark Suttle: The Last Kiss
J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068