2025 Festival
The Board of the Arizona Bach Festival is excited to present the details of our 16th annual festival! Visit our Tickets and Passes page or click on any of the concert titles below to buy tickets to that concert right now. Whether or not you attend the concerts in person, we also offer a Video Package of YouTube recordings of all four Festival concerts! Watch our Facebook page for updates and be sure that you’re subscribed to our email list to receive our important festival news!
Handel’s Messiah – Pure Baroque!
Conducted by Scott Youngs
Sunday, February 16, 3:00 p.m.
Camelback Bible Church, Paradise Valley
3900 E Stanford Dr, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253
General Seating: $50 advance / $55 at the door
Priority Seating: $75 advance / $80 at the door
The 2025 Season opens on February 16 with a Baroque tour de force: Handel’s complete Messiah. This performance features period instruments with chorus and soloists: a rare and exciting event in Arizona. While we normally hear only the Christmas portion, this concert will present the complete work in all its power and majesty.
Organist Alcee Chriss III in Recital
An all-Bach program
Sunday, February 23, 3:00 p.m.
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
6300 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Tickets: $30 advance / $35 at the door
The Festival’s annual organ recital features Alcee Chriss III, associate organist of Trinity Church Wall Street, NYC, and University Organist at Wesleyan University. Hailed as one of the finest organists of our time, he will play an all-Bach recital on the wonderful neo-baroque organ of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Phoenix, on February 23.
Guitarist Martha Masters in Recital
Thursday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West
3830 N Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Tickets: $50 advance / $55 at the door
Martha Masters, winner of the Segovia International Guitar Competition and assistant professor of guitar at ASU, will play a recital at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West amid their glorious artwork on Thursday, March 6. Admission to this special event includes a pre-concert tour of the museum, a pre-concert reception, and a ticket for a future visit to the museum!
Our box office will open at 5:30 pm and docent-led tours and the reception will start at 6:00. Plenty of free parking is available, both under the museum, and in a surface lot across the street (to the Southeast). The concert is almost sold out, so if you’re planning on purchasing tickets at the door, please arrive by 6:00 pm if possible.
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Sunday, March 16, 3:00 p.m.
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
6300 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Tickets: $45 advance / $50 at the door
On March 16, the grand finale of the Festival is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, featuring four different violinists, each one a superb artist. “Spring” will be played by Stephen Redfield (Santa Fe), “Summer” by Jonathan Godfrey (Houston), “Autumn” by Jonathan Swartz (Phoenix) and “Winter” by Daniel Phillips (NY). Also on the program are concertos for Trumpet (Joe Burgstaller – Canadian Brass & ASU Professor), and for Bassoon (Albie Micklich – Recording artist & ASU Professor).