SC Bach, South Carolina's Bach Society

Join us for our first concert weekend of the 2024-2025 season, featuring local musicians performing a mix of Bach and bluegrass music! $20 suggested donation at the door. Hope to see you there!

What an incredible weekend of events featuring South Carolina’s own and his professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Louise Toppin. We had a fascinating panel discussion on Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges on Saturday afternoon. That evening, we heard a thrilling concert that situated spirituals and composers of color, including Chevalier, as he is commonly called, alongside their European contemporaries. Thank you to all who attended! We are excited to share our plans for the next season soon.

We hope you’ll join us for this incredible concert tonight at Furman! Featuring Furman grad Tyrese Byrd, tenor, and Dr. Louise Toppin, soprano. The concert is free! We’ll be in the Daniel Recital Hall in the music building.

We are so excited about our day of events celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Baroque Music! Join us at St. Michael Lutheran Church at 1 pm for a panel discussion, and at Furman tonight for a concert at 7. Hope to see you at one or both events!

Join us May 10-11 for a celebration of diversity, equity, and inclusion in Baroque music! Featuring friend of SC Bach and frequent collaborator, tenor Tyrese Byrd, and soprano Dr. Louise Toppin, along with Joshua Marzan, collaborative pianist. All events are free and open to the public! We hope to see you there.

What an incredible weekend of music! Thank you for celebrating the 300th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with us. It was inspiring to see so many of our supporters at these concerts. We will see you in early May for our next concert weekend!

Watch Dr. David Hamilton, SC Bach board member, soprano Kathryn Knauer, and harpsichordist Elliott Smith on Fox Carolina’s Fine Arts Friday. We hope to see you at one of our concerts March 23-24. Admission is free and all are welcome! Details on our website: www.scbach.org.

https://www.foxcarolina.com/video/2024/03/15/st-john-passion-performance/

Check us out on Fox Carolina’s Fine Arts Friday TODAY at 11 am! Soprano Kathryn Knauer and accompanist Elliott Smith will be performing, and Board Member David Hamilton will be talking about our upcoming concerts in celebration of the 300th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion. We’ll share the clip here after it airs as well.

Bob Glick, organist and singer with the SC Bach Choir, led our third Lunch and Learn today! Join us next Thursday at noon at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Greenville for our next in the series. BYO lunch and curiosity about Bach, the St. John Passion, or other musical musings. Hope to see you then!

One last pic of Dr. Gary Malvern’s talk and one of the SC Bach Board Members who attended the Lunch and Learn. Join us every Thursday in Lent at noon!

Dr. Gary Malvern led our second free Lunch and Learn today, focusing on the liturgical calendar and where the Passion fits into the church year. We hope to see you next week! BYO lunch and questions about Bach, the Passion, or other musical wonderings. Every Thursday at noon during Lent in the fellowship hall of St. Michael Lutheran Church in Greenville.

We kicked off our free Lunch and Learn series today! Each Thursday at noon leading up to our performance of Bach’s St. John Passion, we are offering these free and informative talks about different aspects of the St. John Passion. Today’s topic: What is a Passion, and why is Bach’s St. John Passion so special? We hope to see you next week at noon here at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Greenville for our next in the series!

Join us for free lunch and learns at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Greenville leading up to our performance of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion! This Eastertide represents the 300th anniversary of the first performance of St. John Passion in Leipzig, and we are thrilled to perform it with our incredible soloists, SC Bach Choir, and the NC Baroque Orchestra! No need to RSVP for the lunch and learns or concerts - all of our events are free and open to the public! Donations are gladly accepted and much needed in order to continue bringing world class performances, school outreach programs, and other educational opportunities to our communities. Visit our website to support our mission and contribute to the vibrant early music movement in South Carolina: www.scbach.org/donate. We hope to see you soon!

A few pictures from our lovely Christmas concert with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra last night. It was wonderful to see so many board members together in person (last pic) - just missing Arlen Clarke and Nichole Martini, who had to leave before we could grab them for the picture. Happy Holidays to all our friends and fans of J.S. Bach!

Admission is free! Bring your friends and kick off the Christmas season surrounded by beautiful music.

We are so thankful for Mrs. Owensby at Simpsonville Elementary School for allowing some of our musicians to visit her fourth grade class in conjunction with our concerts this weekend! Barbara Krumdieck, cello; David Wilson, violin; and Will Thauer, oboe spent time playing for the students and talking about their instruments.

GCS music teachers, our next opportunity for a school outreach visit with SC Bach musicians is Friday, March 15, 2024. Please email [email protected] if you’re interested in having our musicians come to your class!

Bachtoberfest is this Sunday and you can bid on this item and many more! Tickets available via the link in our bio or at the door - $55 for one and $100 for two. Tickets include two beers and heavy apps, plus access to our silent auction with music provided by Gary Malvern and friends! Come and bring a friend to eat, drink, and be merry with us at Carolina Bauernhaus Greenville!

Our first concert of the season is this coming weekend and admission is free! Donations are always welcomed and greatly appreciated. Concerts are October 1 at 7pm at Fellowship United Methodist Faith Community (2703 Augusta St, Greenville) and October 3 at 7:30 pm at Edmunds Hall, Presbyterian College, Clinton.

This concert series will combine jazz and Bach, a new type of concert for us! Enjoy listening to a Bach Suite (No. 1 in G Major) contrasted with a suite by Claude Bolling for flute and jazz piano trio! Prof. Christopher Hutton will be joining us again and will perform “Buffing the Gut” by Benjamin Boone. It’s definitely going to be one of our most unique concerts thus far, and we hope you’ll join us for this and our other offerings this season!

Sneak peek of just one of the amazing experiences up for auction at Bachtoberfest! A hot air balloon ride for two with a champagne celebration after! Get your tickets to Bachtoberfest here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bachtoberfest-2023-tickets-715570950977 - it’s the only way to bid on the items in our silent auction. Stay tuned for more sneak peeks in the coming weeks. Bachtoberfest is just one month away!

Generously donated by Roger Clark with Palmetto Balloons. 📸:

Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, beer, food, and fun at Carolina Bauernhaus Greenville! Tickets include two beers, food, and admission to the silent auction, all accompanied by music from Gary Malvern and friends. We can’t wait to see you there. Stay tuned for sneak peeks of silent auction items and click here to purchase tickets today! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bachtoberfest-2023-tickets-715570950977

SC Bach Board Member and longtime friend of the organization, Dr. Gary Malvern, is conducting these concerts - tickets available through the GSO.

Olympic Feats of Opera – Greenville Symphony Orchestra A smorgasbord of some of the most virtuosic works composed for the human voice, this experience is composed of arias that are quite simply Olympic feats of singing. Come and wonder at the impossible beauty of these works by Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, including an aria from his iconic character t...

We are so thankful once again to have received a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission in support of our 2023-2024 season! The SCAC has funded our work through operating support grants for small non-profits for the past several seasons, and our success would not be possible without them. As a small but growing organization, the support from the SCAC is deeply appreciated. Thank you!

Senator Karl Allen
Chandra E. Dillard
Bruce Bannister
Ross Turner

Our Artistic Director, David Rhyne, and organist/Bach Choir singer/SC Bach supporter Bob Glick happened to be at the same concert featuring the historic Müller organ in Haarlem, the Netherlands! What are the odds?

Hope you’re all enjoying a lovely summer, and we can’t wait to see you at our concerts in the fall - keep an eye out for dates and more information soon.

One of our SC Bach Choir members took this stunning picture of during our concert in Spartanburg today. Thank you for a wonderful season thus far in 2022. We wish you all a happy holiday season and look forward to seeing you in the new year.

We had a fabulous turnout to our Greenville concert this evening! Thanks to all who attended. You have one more chance to see S.C. Bach in 2022 - tomorrow at Central UMC, Spartanburg at 3:00 pm. Tickets are available at the door and on our website!

Hope to see you at one of our December concerts in Greenville and Spartanburg! We’ll be performing works by the *other* composers who were offered the job of Leipzig Cantor before J.S. Bach - Telemann and Gaupner. We are midway through the first season of our two-season arc focused on Bach’s early years as Thomaskantor. Join the SC Bach Choir and soloists and North Carolina Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Dr. David Rhyne for a deep dive into Leipzig in the time of Bach. In a first for us, we’ll have TWO concert talks - one before the concert begins, and one after the intermission! Tickets and more info available on our website: https://scbach.org/20222023-season.