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Ensemble BachPlus (Vocal & Instrumental Baroque Ensemble)

Born: 2010 - Aalst, Belgium

BachPlus is a project which was founded in 2010 by soprano Elisabeth Hermans and keyboard player/conductor Bart Naessens. The core business of the project is focussed on the monthly organisation of a Bachcantata-concert (BachPlus Cantata Series) in the Baroque Jesuit church of Aalst (Belgium) and the impressive historic St. Bavo church in Aardenburg (Netherlands). In addition to these monthly performances of Bach cantatas the ensemble organises each year a bigger concert around a big composition of master J.S. Bach (Magnificat (BWV 243), B minor Mass (BWV 232), Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248)... )

Lately the ensemble BachPlus enlarged his activities and became one of Belgiums leading Baroque-ensembles, specialised in the performance of Baroque music. It is frequently invited in Belgium and Europe with diverse programmes, mainly focussed on the oeuvre of J.S. Bach and contemporaries. The warm, intense friendly but very professional atmosphere that is breathing out of the performances, creates an intense and refreshing look on that immense interpreted work of J.S. Bach and contemporaries and enthralls the music-lovers from far and wide. This is why the BachPlus ensemble managed in a short time to acquire a big and honoured reputation throughout the (inter) national baroque music scene.

The ensemble BachPlus unites musicians from across Europe that built their vital and valuable experience of historical performance practice during playing at several renowned ensembles and/or through their own activities and initiatives. Founder-director and conductor Bart Naessens makes choices with them as close as possible to the performance practice of J.S. Bach's own period, steadily building (but with an ever healthy critical view) on the many valuable insights that the pioneering work of our predecessors have installed. Therefore the ensemble usually performs according to the one-to-a-part-principle in an original setting and off course, the musicians play on historical or historical model based instruments.

In addition to its own organisations, the ensemble will increasingly enlarge their activities on (inter-) national stages in order to share their interpretation and vision of the Baroque work with the widest possible audience. Both in pure orchestral form and in combination with the vocalists, the ensemble wishes to become one of Europes leading ensembles in the performance of Baroque music.

Members of BachPlus Vocal Ensemble:

Sopranos

Altos

Tenors

Basses

Amaryllis Dieltiens
Griet de Geyter
Elisabeth Hermans
Sarah Van Mol
Kristien Nijs

Jonathan De Ceuster
Joëlle Charlier
Clint van der Linde
Kerlijne Van Nevel
Petra Noskaiová
Bart Uvyn

Jan Caals
Sean Clayton
Govaart Haché
Yves van Handenhove
Michiel Haspeslagh
Adriaan De Koster
Vincent Lesage
Pieter De Moor
Kevin D. Skelton

Joris Derder
Arnout Malfliet
Drew Santini
Kai-Rouven Seeger
Philippe Souvagie
Tiemo Wang


 
 

Source: Bart Naessens (February 2015)
Contributed by
Bart Naessens (February 2015, April 2018)

Bart Naessens: Short Biography | Ensembles: Ensemble BachPlus
Bach Discography:
Recordings of Vocal Works
Cantata Series:
BachPlus Cantata Series

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BachPlus (Official Website)


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