Bach Aria Soloists Performers
Bach Aria Soloists (l-r): Matthew Johnson, Elizabeth Suh Lane, Rebecca Lloyd, Un Chong Christopher, Janet Kraybill

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The Bach Aria Soloists is the dynamic ensemble dedicated to presenting the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and those inspired by him to the community. Through informative performances of vocal and instrumental chamber music, masterclasses, and Bachreach education, the Bach Aria Soloists brings the brilliant music of Bach, the Baroque, and the contemporary to new life in the intimate settings for which this music was intended.


a 15 minute documentary is available on DVD (contact us for more information)
abbreviated (7:21) version above.

Since 2000, our Hauskonzert series (video introduction 2:10) has been sponsored by benefactors who host concerts in their own homes, thus re-creating Bach's original chamber music setting... the home/chamber. We perform the most glorious music by the finest musicians in the most splendid homes, amongst friends...

Education to students is integral to our activities. We have visited schools throughout the area offering Bachreach:

  • introduction to the genius of Bach
  • introduction to our individual instruments
  • presentations of chamber music
  • coaching to music students on chamber and orchestral repertoire

BAS Artists with Christoph WolffCollaboration is our mantra. In 2007, the Bach Aria Soloists presented the world's authority on Bach, Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard University, in a sensational BAS concert, which captivated the record-breaking, filled-to-capacity audience at the Kansas City Public Library. This was his first appearance in Kansas City, and was a sellout.

During 2006, Elizabeth Suh Lane, 1st Violin / Artistic Director of Bach Aria Soloists and Elizabeth Koeppen, Principal Dancer and Assistant Director of the world-renowned David Parsons Dance Company in New York collaborated to create Accompagnata...a ViolinDance. Solo violin selections from Bach’s monumental masterpiece, Six Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin, were played by Elizabeth Suh Lane and danced by Elizabeth Koeppen (more...).