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BACHFEST 2026
Celebrating LBS 80th ANNIVERSARY
30 October-10 November 2026. Festival Programme includes Bach Cantatas from 1726, Chamber Music from the Rautio Piano Trio in a City Livery Hall and LBS Bach Singers Prize.
Concert Tickets on sale from 1 September. Mark the dates and come and join us.
Friday 30 October at 7.00pm including Bach Cantatas BWV 72,BWV 17 Tkts £25.00, £20.00, £15.00 unreserved at St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield EC1 (St Paul’s or Barbican tubes) In advance or at the door from 6.15pm
Wednesday 4 November at 7.00pm The Rautio Piano Trio “Patronage and Influence: From J C Bach to Marianne Martins to Beethoven” at Wax Chandlers Hall, 6 Gresham Street EC2 (St. Paul’s tube). A rare opportunity to hear a period fortepiano and chamber music given in a City Livery Hall.. Tickets £25.00 unreserved in advance or at the door from 6.15pm
Tuesday 10 November at 7.00pm Bach Cantatas BWV 130 and BWV 207, and A minor violin concerto BWC 1041 to mark the LBS 80th Anniversary at St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield EC1 (St Paul’s or Barbican tubes) Tickets £25.00, £20.00, £15.00 all unreserved in advance or at the door from 6.15pm
Bach Singers Prize at St. George’s Hanover Square W.1. open to the public: The Semi Final Mon 26 October at 7.00pm Tickets £20.00 The Final Friday 6 November at 7.00pm Tickets £20.
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LBS BACH SINGERS PRIZE COMPETITION 2026 Entries to be submitted by/on 3 October to lbs@lonbachsoc.co.uk
To help celebrate our 80th anniversary, LBS is presenting another Bach Singers Competition. This competition is open to postgraduate singers aged 21-34. Entry on application by Saturday 3 October (especially extended).
FIRST ROUND 22 OCTOBER am and pm St. George’s Hanover Square W1,
SEMI FINAL MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 7pm ST GEORGE’S HANOVER SQUARE W.1, 7pm,
THE FINAL FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER ST. GEORGE’S HANOVER SQUARE W.1, 7pm
Entry Details and Forms available in advance by email request to lbs@lonbachsoc.co.uk.
Prize Forms – click here and Prize Details – click here
Friday 9 October from 10.30am-5.00pm
Book your place (participant or observer) 01883 717372. It is free
BACH MASTERCLASS & GERMAN LANGUAGE SESSIONS AT VOCES8 CENTRE, EC2. OPEN TO PRIZE ENTRANTS AND NON-PRIZE ENTRANTS with Christopher Bucknall, Julia Doyle and Gerhard Gall
Copies of the prescribed recitatives (see Entry Details page 3) can be sent by email on request to lbs@lonbachsoc.co.uk . NB: Please note: The prescribed bass recitative is Cantata 11. No 3. My apologies: MS
Correction: The date of the Final is Friday 6 November.
The competition is open to all postgraduate singers, even if they have completed their studies, as long as they are in the age range 21-34 years.
This information will be regularly updated from now onwards.
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Updated: Friday 2 October
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