Introducing The Chattanooga Bach Choir

What is the Chattanooga Bach Choir?

The Bach Choir in Chattanooga was established in 1985 by a conductor James Greasby.

It provides an opportunity for members to sing lesser performed choral works of the Baroque period. They also sing choral-orchestral masterworks and chamber choral music of all periods.

The choir?s performance repertoire includes more than 25 of Bach?s motets, cantatas, and oratorios.

They also perform all of the late Haydn masses, and numerous anthems by Henry Purcell. They sing works of other English composers as well.

The group has performed masterworks by men who lived durring the same period as Bach such as Hammerschmidt, Telemann, Handel and the music of French composers. The most notable French composers were Faure and Durufle?.

Since its inception twenty-two years ago the choir has performed the works of over sixty composers.

The Chattanooga Choir performed with the Tennessee Chamber Orchestra in 2006 in which they premiered a piece by Tennessee composer Christopher Tew. They also sang as the featured choir at the Bach Festival in Rome, Georgia, in 2007.

The choir draws its members from very diverse backgrounds and vocations including a priest, teachers and attorneys, a retired military officer, homemakers, a pipe organ technician, church musicians, business managers, computer consultants, a physical therapist, a painter, and music professors!

Check out the Bach Choir's performance schedule at their website, ChattanoogaBachChoir.org.