20th Anniversary Season!
2025-26 Events
Madrigal Evenings
Come gather around the piano to sing English and Italian madrigals (examples: The Silver Swan; Now is the Month of Maying). We’ll throw in some songs from our old Europa Cantat books as well. Ralph Nelson will play and conduct. We’ll learn 7-8 songs before we break for dessert; then we’ll come back and learn 5-6 more songs. Finally, we'll sing through some of our favorites one more time. All skill levels welcome!
Friday, August 22
Saturday, August 23rd
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Tickets $30
NE Portland Location
Season Opening Concert
J.S. Bach: Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139
G.F. Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Carlo Grossi: Cantata ebraïca
Sunday, October 26
2:00 pm
Free Concert
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
NE 44th & Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR (map)
Zimmermann’s Leipzig Coffeehouse
Come with us back in time, to Café Zimmermann! Here, many of Bach’s secular cantatas were performed for the first time. In 1723, it was the largest and best-appointed Kaffeehaus of Leipzig and a center for gentlemen and the middle classes. While women were forbidden from frequenting coffeehouses, they could attend public concerts at Zimmermann’s. In 1729, Bach began holding regular concerts there, consisting of German and Italian opera, chamber music, secular cantatas, and works for orchestra.
We’ll perform Bach’s Coffee Cantata (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht) and Telemann’s The School Master (Der Schulmeister). Small groups will also perform lighthearted music, while the audience enjoys coffee served in a mug that is yours to keep. German pastries and other beverages will be available for purchase.
As part of this fundraiser event, there will be a silent auction, and raffle tickets will be sold.
Sunday, November 16
2:00 pm
Tickets $40
German American Society
5626 NE Alameda St, Portland, OR (map)
Baroque Holiday Concert
J.S. Bach: Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio highlights, with
narration telling the Christmas story
J. Eccard: Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
J. Eccard: Resonet in laudibus
E. Salas: Como la Luz
Friday, December 19
7:30 pm
Tickets $40 General Admission
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
NE 44th & Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR (map)
Super Bach Concert
J. S. Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
J. S. Bach: Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Fanfare from Le Carrousel du Roi
Johann Schelle: Lobe den Herrn
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: O Dulcis Jesu
Sunday, February 8
2:00 pm
Free Concert
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
NE 44th & Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR (map)
B-Minor Mass
Concert and Lecture
Considered J. S. Bach's greatest choral work, this was originally written for the King of Saxony, and then later revised by Bach in 1749, one year before he died. It was never performed during his lifetime.
Sunday, March 22
Lecture 2:00 pm
Concert 3:00 pm
Tickets $40 General Admission
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
NE 44th & Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR (map)
Bach-Woods Concert at the
Historic 1937 Steiner Log Church
Program includes favorite pieces by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and others, with an audience participation sing-along.
Note: Steiner Log Church, built in 1937, is a historical structure and is not handicapped or wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, May 17
3:00 pm (Sold Out)
5:00 pm (Sold Out)
Tickets $25 General Admission, Limited Availability
Steiner Log Church
68835 E Barlow Trail Rd, Welches, OR (map)
20th Anniversary Celebration
This season we’ve been celebrating our 20th year of singing together. The final concert of the season celebrates those 20 years as we perform some of our favorite works from years past, including works selected by our audience, choir, orchestra and soloists. As is our tradition, we’ll ask the audience to join us in singing several of the chorales in English.
Soloists for this concert are:
Jacob William Herbert, bass
Vakarė Petroliūnaitė, soprano
Sheryl Wood, alto
Some of the pieces we’ll be performing:
Ruht Wohl - St. John Passion
Jesu, Meine Freude - Motet #227
Sicut locutus est - Magnificat
Grosser Herr - Christmas Oratorio
Sleepers, Awake - Cantata #140
Christ lag in Todesbanden - Cantata #4
Ich steh an deiner Krippen - Christmas Oratorio
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Cantata #147
Exsultate Justi - Ludovico da Viadana
Promised Land - arr. John Vergin
Sunday, June 7
2:00 pm
Free Concert; Donations Gratefully Accepted
German American Society
5626 NE Alameda St, Portland, OR (map)