Washington Bach Consort

Among the most durable U.S. historical performance groups, the choral-orchestral Washington Bach Consort has a repertory extending beyond the music of its namesake. The group has performed a complete cycle of J.S. Bach's cantatas. The Washington Bach Consort was established in Washington, D.C., in 1977. Its founder was J. Reilly Lewis, who remained the group's conductor for the first 39 years until his death in 2016. After a national search, Dana Marsh, a professor and director of the Historical Performance Institute at the University of Indiana, was named the group's artisti...