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As part of the series of jury concerts taking place over the week of the Boston Bach International Organ Competition, jury member Martin Schmeding of Leipzig plays the annual Labor Day concert at First Lutheran Church, a program of music by Bach, Bruhns, Frescobaldi, Grigny, Krebs, Medek, Mendelssohn, van Noordt, Scheidemann, and Steigleder.

As part of the series of jury concerts being offered during the week of the Boston Bach International Organ Competition, jury chair Arvid Gast, head of church music at the Lübeck Hochschule and organist at the famous Jakobikirche in Lübeck, and the BBIOC Secretariat Jonathan Wessler play the regular Tuesday lunchtime concert at King's Chapel.

Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane and his instrumental trio Ayreheart

Benjamin Bagby, voice and harp Beowulf Accompanying himself on a six-stringed harp, Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of medieval scop, or “singer of tales,” to relate the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf through speech and song. Bagby’s dramatic retelling of Beowulf and the Icelandic Edda, scholarly reconstructed epics from the Middle Ages, is an invaluable gift to the music world. Based in Paris, he teaches at the Sorbonne and also directs Sequentia. Post-concert Q and A

Lionel Meunier, director Ten-voice choir and continuo from Belgium J.S. Bach’s Motets The impressive Belgian choir Vox Luminis, meaning “voice of light,” has taken the early music world by storm. The singers offer five of Bach’s contrapuntal motets that demand the highest level of virtuosity to realize the musical textures elucidating the text. Bach goes far beyond merely expressing the words. Rather he explores their meaning in depth, highlighting their spiritual and metaphysical implications. Post-concert Q and A

Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane will perform a selection of pieces on solo lute

Baroque chamber orchestra Alfredo Bernardini, oboe and conductor Vivaldi, His Friends and Enemies The pioneering Alfredo Bernardini, a beloved figure in European baroque music circles, directs the extraordinary students of Juilliard415 in a program of Italian concerti and overtures that features Vivaldi and his lesser known peers—Lotti, A. Marcello, Veracini, Galuppi, and Albinoni—who either loved or loathed Vivaldi. Some promoted his work far beyond Italy, while others engaged in cutthroat competition.