Bach Santiago (Choir & Orchestra)

Founded: 2018 - Santiago, Chile

Fulfilling a dream treasured for decades, on Sunday July 15, 2018, at the Iglesia Luterana El Redentor in Santiago, Chile, the Bach Santiago enterprise began a great journey, which will compromise their work for more than six years: interpreting the integral of the Cantatas by J.S. Bach, one of the most extraordinary musical corpus in universal art.

Many are the companions of the route that for more than 30 years have listened to this yearning, in the middle of trips, courses, workshops, tours, rehearsals and concerts. Possibly incredulous, his eyes never stopped shining, at such an occurrence..

Today they begin, with the conviction that Chilean singers, instrumentalists, vocal ensembles and choirs are ripe to face the task. Our conservatories, music schools and our national programs: Growing up Singing, FOJI and the public, have paved the way.

The primary and advanced musical studies programs have never stopped considering J.S. Bach as one of the bases of the training of performers and composers. He always collaborates and indicates the way in his encyclopedic eagerness to tackle all the possibilities of the contrapunct, the instrumentation and the singing, establishing the techniques of musical learning, from a beginning child, to the professional musician.

It will be a beautiful and long day, full of musical challenges and economic uncertainties. They will ensure that there are always the experienced and the advanced students, those from inside and those from outside Chile, those from 415 and those from 440. That Bach Santiago is a place of meeting and academic and artistic welcome for all of us who love this inexhaustible legacy.

Members of Coro Bach Santiago (2018-2024):

Sopranos

Altos

Tenors

Basses

Andrea Aguilar
Virginia Barrios
María José Brañes
Fanny Becerra
Consuelo Escudero
Claudia Figueroa
Molly Flanagan
Pilar Garrido
Francia Gómez
Melisa Gómez
Francisca Jünemann
Soledad Mayorga
Micaela Morales
Florencia Nuvoa
Paloma Reyes
Vanessa Rojas
Denise Torre

Camila Aguilera
Cecilia Barrientos
Javiera Barrios
Fernanda Carter
Javiera Lara
Andrea Manque
Catalina Menares
José Andrés Muñoz
Víctor Muñoz
Ana Navarro
Elena Pérez
Evelyn Ramírez
Valentina Salinas
María José Uribarri
Karen Vásquez
Valeria Vega Matus

Martín Aurra
Brayan Ávila
Felipe Catalán
Emilio Espinoza
Francisco Espinoza
Ricardo Gálvez
Felipe Gutiérrez
Sebastián Inostroza
Gerardo Mondaca
Gustavo Morales
Nicolás Noguchi
Israel Olivares
Rodrigo del Pozo
Gonzalo Quinchahual

Diego Amengual
Diego Arellano
Javier Arrey
Maximiliano Bustíos Gutiérrez
Pablo Castillo
Christian Castro
Ismael Correa
Diego Delpiano
Alfredo Díaz
David Gáez
Cristián Moya
Camilo Olguín
Franco Oportus
Alejandro Rosales
Patricio Sabaté
Pablo Santa Cruz
Christian Senn
Nicolás Suazo
Javier Weibel

Members of Orquesta Bach Santiago (2018-2024):

Violins: Sebastián Acevedo, Gonzalo Beltrán, Eduardo Browne, Yvanka Milosevic, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, David Núñez, Marcelo Pérez, Juan Manuel Vásquez, Ramiro Vera
Violas: Mariel Godoy, Javier Reyes, Pablo Salinas, Richard Urbina
Violonchllos: Sebastián Mercado, Paulina Mühle-Wiehoff, María Gabriela Olivares, Francisca Reyes
Double-bass: Joaquín Hidalgo, Egon Hoffmann
Flutes: Natalia Martorell, Sebastián Rodríguez
Oboes: Leonardo Cuevas, Pascal Montenegro, Camila Morales, Roberto Morales, José Luis Urquieta, Diego Villela
Bassoon: Alevi Peña, Montserrat Tapia
Trumpets: Gustavo Oliveros, Felipe Painean, Hermes Quintanilla
Timpani: Gerardo Salazar
Harpsichord: Juan Cristóbal Undurraga
Continuo: Sebastián Camaño, Edgardo Campos, Francisca Reyes (Cello); Verónica Sierralta, Juan Cristóbal Undurraga (Organ)

Connected Ensembles:

Orquesta Barroca Nuevo Mundo
Orquesta Marga Marga

Sources:
Bach Santiago program 2019, English translastion by Aryeh Oron (July 2020)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (July 2020, August 2022, March 2023, September 2023, December 2023, October 2024, November 2024)

Víctor Alarcón: Short Biography | Ensembles: Ensamble Concerto Vocale | Cuarteto Surkos | Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Miguel Ángel Castro: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Fernando Cordella: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Brazil Ensemble | Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Mika Eichenholz: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Joshua Habermann: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Christian Lorca: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Miguel Ángel Muñoz: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

David Núñez: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Rodrigo del Pozo: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Gerard Ramos Pardo: Short Biography | Ensembles: Coro de Cámara UC, Santiago | Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Pedro-Pablo Prudencio: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Nicolás Rauss: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Alejandro Reyes: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Ola Rudner: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Felipe Ramos Taky: Short Biography | Ensembles: Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works
Cantata Series: Bach Santiago

Juan Pablo Villarroel: Short Biography | Ensembles: Camerata Vocal de la Universidad de Chile | Bach Santiago
Bach Discography: Recordings of Vocal Works

Links to other Sites

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