2026-2027 Season Overview
Dear friends,
Thank you for journeying with Madison Bach Musicians through an amazing 2025–26 season. It was thrilling to experience with you the Classical Symphonies program in October 2025, then Christmas with the Baroque Masters in December 2025, then Bach’s incomparable Mass in B minor in March 2026, and, finally, an intimate chamber music conclusion with Princely Architects: Bach, Beethoven, and Frank Lloyd Wright in May 2026. Thanks for your enthusiasm—including the wonderful letters and emails you write us about the shows, your concert attendance, and your unwavering financial support!
Onward to 2026–27, our exciting 23rd season! MBM will present three new programs. We’ll start on October 10 & 11 in the beloved setting of Holy Wisdom Monastery with an all-Bach concert featuring three Cantatas and a Violin Concerto. By popular demand, violinist Marc Destrubé will return for a third consecutive year to lead the band. For our 16th Annual Holiday Concert—on December 11th at Four Winds Farm and on December 12th at First Congregational Church—we’ll revisit the astonishing and vast repertoire of the Latin American Baroque. Our first adventure into this enthralling soundscape in 2022 received an overwhelmingly positive response. The season will conclude on March 20 & 21 in the magnificent acoustics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hamel Music Center with an all-Mozart program. Conductor Andrew Megill from Northwestern University will return (after recent MBM engagements Monteverdi’s Vespers in 2024 and Bach’s Mass in B minor in 2026) for Mozart: Requiem. Also on the program are Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Soave sia il vento (from Cosi fan Tutte), and Laudate Dominum.
Please join us for this wonderful new season of concerts! We hope you will be a subscriber to Madison Bach Musicians’ 23rd season—please see the wonderful subscriber benefits listed below. We continue to offer our events in livestream format so that our patrons everywhere can enjoy the concerts and so that those who attend in person can watch and hear the performance again via livestream recording on demand for two weeks after the concert. In conjunction with each of our season offerings, MBM continues its series of educational outreach events for school orchestras and choirs and for youth music performing organizations.
See you at the concerts!
Trevor Stephenson, MBM Artistic Director
Kangwon Kim, MBM Assistant Artistic Director
