Date: May 20, 2026
Time: 7:30 – 8:40PM
Venue: Church of the Holy Trinity
1904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19103 | Directions
Tickets: $20

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A unique collaboration between outstanding young musicians and an expert on the music of J.S. Bach, the Gamut Bach Ensemble prides itself on stylistically sensitive, earnest, and insightful performances. Directed by Koji Otsuki, the Ensemble embarks on its annual program of cantatas in the luminous Church of the Holy Trinity.

Rebecca Myers, soprano; Sylvia Leith, mezzo; James Reese, tenor; Edmund Milly, baritone; Mary Lynch VanderKolk & Ryan Roberts, oboe/oboe d’amore; Emilie-Anne Gendron & Miho Saegusa, violin; Esteban Hernández Parra, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello; Nathaniel West, double bass; Jonathan Oddie, organ

Bach: Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 93
Bach: Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37
Bach: Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72
Bach: Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92

About the Gamut Beach Ensemble

The word Gamut, in music, is the complete range of notes in a system, an instrument or a particular piece.  It derives from “Gamma-Ut,” the lowest note on the medieval sequence of hexachords– the system used in the teaching of practical music well into the baroque period.  Paying tribute to the root of so much of what classical music is today, this ensemble brings you an evening of Bach “dialogue” cantatas.

The first ensemble with this name was formed in Tokyo Japan in 2005 as a period instrument group that consisted of young experts. Director Koji Otsuki, who now coaches Bach cantata rehearsals at the Marlboro Music Festival, has been seeking ways to collaborate with modern-trained young professionals who rarely get to perform this repertoire despite their wish. This Philadelphia version of Gamut Bach Ensemble was born as the place of the collaboration with its original vision of insightful and conscientious Bach.