23rd Season Events
Festival String Quartet in Port Huron
Thursday, September 14, 2023, noon & 5 pm
St. Clair County Community College Fine Arts Building, Port Huron
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama
Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
From Bach to the Tango
Kurt Nikkanen, Violin • Maria Asteriadou, Piano
Friday, September 15, 2023, 7:00 pm
St. Denis Catholic Church, Lexington
Ave Maria Parish
J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E major BWV 1016
Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
Piazzolla: Adiós Nonina
Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Piazzolla: Riverado
Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Nikkanen Plays Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Kurt Nikkannen, Violin
Festival Orchestra, John Thomas Dodson, Conductor
Saturday, September 16, 2023, 7:00 pm
Pre-Concert Talk at 6:15 pm
Festival Orchestra, John Thomas Dodson, Conductor
St. Denis Catholic Church, Lexington
Ave Maria Parish
Bach: Sinfonias from Cantatas Nos. 42 and 182
Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B flat major
Festival Finale: Double Concerto!
Nikkanen & Asteriadou Play Mendelssohn
Festival Orchestra, John Thomas Dodson, Conductor
Sunday Afternoon, September 17, 2023, 4:30 pm
Pre-Concert Talk at 3:45 pm
St. Denis Catholic Church, Lexington
Ave Maria Parish
Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No. 156
Mendelssohn: Concerto in D minor for Violin and Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (Jupiter)
J.S. Bach/Dodson: Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit, BWV 668
John Thomas Dodson, Music Director
The Lexington Bach
Festival is made possible through the support of the Lexington Arts Council, the Community Foundation of St. Clair County, and the generosity of numerous institutional and individual donors