Prelude Events

Department of Music & Dance

Bach Festival Prelude Concert: Bach The Musical Offering

There is a Bach Festival prelude concert at the Drake in Amherst on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 7:30pm. Selections include BWV 212 The Peasant Cantata. With UMass alum and recent Grammy Nominee Corrine Byrne, soprano, as well as David Thomas Mather, baritone.
Noah Horn conducting.

Tickets are $20 general admission; students/children free.

Bach in the Subways performances
March 31 – April 2, 2023

Since 2015, local western Massachusetts musicians, professionals and students alike, have participated in the international Bach in the Subways (BitS) m

Additional Prelude Concerts:

Bach in Bezanson – Violin Studio
Elizabeth Chang, faculty coordinator
Thursday, March 27 @ 7:00pm in Bezanson Hall, Free

Bach in Bezanson – Cello & Viola Studios
Edward Arron & Hyobi Sim, faculty coordinators
Friday, April 4 @ 7:00pm in Bezanson Hall, Free