OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
A VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS—
CO-CREATION & COLLABORATION
The Artists Collaborative Ensemble (ACE) is the resident performing ensemble of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, which is comprised of symposium participants who apply in the following categories:
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Composer/Performer (Category II);
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Performer (non-composer) (Category III);
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Conductor (Category IV);
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OBFCS Improv Ensemble (Category V).
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Each member of ACE is a vital part of our community of musicians—instrumentalists, vocalists, composer/performers, and conductors—who perform the music of symposium participants throughout the festival. We strive to connect all OBFCS participants who come from around the world—composers, composer/performers, performers, and conductors—through ongoing creative projects and collaborations that extend into the future far beyond the boundaries of the symposium itself.
Now more than ever, we must work together as a community of composers and performers to further develop and strengthen our common artistic values and aspirations, especially in these challenging times.
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We have the power to ensure that the arts thrive, and in OBFCS, we are focusing on the creation, performance, and recording of new music from around the world—without boundaries or dogmatic musical ideologies. For each symposium, we focus on a central theme, which in 2025 is “Living in Harmony with Nature: The Environment and Global Climate Change."
This summer, we welcome participants to create and perform music on the theme of "Living in Harmony with Nature" or on a theme of their own choosing.
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Acclaimed guest artists-in-residence and our symposium ensemble, the Artists Collaborative Ensemble (ACE), will give premieres of more than forty-five works composed for the symposium—a celebration of the power of music to connect us to each other through
creativity and the arts.