The Peoria Bach Festival 2009 will feature another week of magnificent and beautiful music. Now in its seventh season, this year's festival will venture into some new realms by exploring "Jazz With Bach" with jazz pianist Ed Kaizer and friends (Bach at Noon Concert on Monday, June 1 at 12:05 p.m.) and the exploring the music of Bach's colleague and friend Georg Philipp Telemann (Chamber Concert on Thursday, June 4 at 5:30 p.m.).

Mr. Bach will once again make an appearance and explain to children the science behind music ("Hey Kids! Meet Mr. Bach" on Wednesday, June 3 at 4:00 p.m.). As a part of this program, musicians from the Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra will explain and demonstrate their instruments and Mr. Bach will explain how the pipe organ works. With their parents' permission, children will be allowed to crawl into Trinity's mighty Schlicker pipe organ.

Of course, we will have our annual Coffee Concert on Friday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. and the 2009 Festival Concert the following evening featuring the Peoria Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra in a performance of the spectacular Magnificat in D Major.

A complete schedule and details regarding this year's events can be found by clicking here or following the "Schedule" link below. Be sure to also check out our photo gallery of past festivals or view the slide show of the 2008 "Hey Kids! Meet Mr. Bach" program entitled "Bach, the Musical Magician" featuring ventriloquist and magician, Allan Adcock

We have also added streaming audio of past concerts. We hope you enjoy them, but a live performance is much better, especially in an acoustic like Trinity's. So please join us between June 1-7 as Peoria once again plays Bach!

See you at the concerts!!!