St Johns Southgate Bach Cantata Program

St Johns Southgate Bach Cantata Program The St Johns Bach Cantata Program is an ongoing program presenting the cantatas and choral music of JS Bach in liturgical Lutheran church services.

The St Johns Bach Cantata Program is an ongoing program presenting the cantatas and choral music of JS Bach in the context for which it was written, liturgical Lutheran church services. Services include organ music on the splendid Smenge pipe organ and congregational singing of chorales and liturgy. In over 200 events, more than 130 different Bach cantatas have now been presented, also most of the

oratorios, motets, passion and Latin liturgical music. The St Johns Bach Orchestra plays on original instruments. St John’s baroque instrument collection includes a chamber organ, concert harpsichord, recorder (in d), oboes da caccia, timpani and cornetti. The program director is Graham Lieschke. The program has developed substantial local and international collaborations. Dr Lieschke was awarded the 2004 Dame Roma Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to cultivate links with similar programs overseas. St Johns Visiting Music Directors have been Thomas Schmidt (2004, St Peter’s Lutheran Church, New York, USA), Georg Christoph Biller (2006, Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany), Albrecht Koch (2010, Dom St Marien, Freiberg, Germany), Rick Erickson (2013, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, New York, USA).

16/07/2026

The University of Divinity awards highest academic honour to eminent church musician, Professor Graham Lieschke AM. The Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) will be conferred in April 2027. The award

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