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Canberra Bach Ensemble performing Bach’s Easter Oratorio at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka

​NEXT CONCERT

St Matthew Passion

Matthäus-Passion — BWV 244

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13–14 March 2027
St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka

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Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann in 1748.

About CBE​

Founded in 1999, the Canberra Bach Ensemble brings together choir, soloists and musicians playing historical instruments. Its performances explore the music of J. S. Bach and the wider Bach family, alongside works by his predecessors and contemporaries, with close attention to text, rhetoric and instrumental colour.

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Based in Canberra, CBE performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival in 2024 and returns in June 2027.

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748,

by Elias Gottlob Haussmann.

Bach-Archiv Leipzig.

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