A concert between cultures.

Highlights include pieces by Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Kurt Weill and from the collaboration between Milica Ilic and Quirina Lechmann.

With: Quirina Lechmann, Martina Hug and Stefan Kägi.

Admission: 30.- or 20.- for students/culture legi

We thank:
Canton of Graubünden, City of Chur, Graubündner Kantonalbank, Lia Rumantscha, Casty-Buchmann Foundation Chur/Masans, Lienhard-Hunger Foundation, Dr. Valentin Malamoud Foundation, Luzi Willi Foundation


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God's Time is the Very Best Time (Actus tragicus) BWV 106
Blessed is he who relies on his god BWV 139
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God BWV 80

The first weekend in November 2025 falls on both the Catholic holidays of All Saints/All Souls' Day and Reformation Day. The Bach-Verein Chur takes this into account with the Reformation anthem "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 80 and the funeral cantata BWV 106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit", also known as "Actus tragicus". This cantata by the composer, who was probably only 22 years old at the time of its composition, is one of his most important works. Alfred Dürr describes the cantata in his book as "a work of genius, such as even great masters rarely succeed in. The link between these two very contrasting cantatas is BWV 139 "Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott".

The ensemble
Bach Choir Chur
Bach Orchestra Chur
Pieder Jörg, organ/harpsichord
Soloists: Manuela Tuena, soprano; Nora Bertogg, mezzo-soprano; Christoph Waltle, Tenor; Mattias Müller-Arpagaus, baritone


The Association
Committed musicians came together in Chur in 2019 to perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach. After successful first concerts, the Bach-Verein Chur was founded in the sense of a support association. This has set itself the goal of rehearsing concerts with music by J. S. Bach every year and, if possible, taking local musicians into account. From initial ripiano tasks, a 25-member choir of advanced amateur singers has been formed. The soloist and instrumental ensemble has been able to establish itself over the years. To date, the Bach-Verein Chur has performed 21 Bach cantatas. At the beginning of April 2022, the "St. John Passion", one of the most important works of church music, was on the program. In addition to the two usual concert weekends in Chur and the surrounding area, an engagement on October 27, 2024 also took our ensemble to Weiningen ZH - where a kind of "best-of" from our previous programs of recent years was heard.
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Meeting of two Graubünden city choirs – Chur and Maienfeld.
These two formations will perform in Chur and Maienfeld in May. Two traditional male choirs with an eventful past will lead you through the theme of "homeland" on the respective evenings. The journey begins in Chur, leads via Graubünden, along the Chur Rhine Valley to the border and beyond.
The programme includes a block with musical accompaniment by musicians from the Stadtmusik Chur – in other words: from the region for the region – as a well-known advertisement advertises its articles.
The directors are Luzi Juon, Christophe Baud and Mattia Ingellis.
The concert will be repeated on Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 7:00 p.m. in Maienfeld in the Amanduskirche.

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

May we ask you to dance in the afternoon? Our dance events are a hit throughout the canton!

What is visible? And what remains hidden? Comic theatre tells of identities and perceptions. With movement and physical expression, we create moments of concealment and revelation. In the process, feelings and stories become visible that lie beyond language and conventions.

The production combines universal expressiveness with a creative narrative style that touches and inspires deeply. In an intense combination of space and movement, images of poetic power and unimagined depth unfold. Every situation is an artful interplay of closeness and distance, sensations and perspectives.

Join the ensemble on a journey that explores the boundaries of inclusion and artistic expression, experimenting with the theme of the ordinary and the extraordinary.

For almost 25 years, nine wedding musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians have been showing how joie de vivre works. For centuries, Ukrainian Ruthenians, Roma, Jews, Romanians and Hungarians have lived side by side in their homeland, each family on its own and yet together.

This gave rise to an independent music that manages without notes - a music of elementary human emotional outbursts, of joy and sorrow, love and betrayal. It resounds for days and nights at the weddings in the mountain villages and everyone sings and dances to it. The Hudaki Village Band plays a variety of music on traditional instruments and is not afraid to give the old songs a fresh, humorous and virtuoso sheen.

In the first half of 2025, the band will release its sixth CD, which reflects the multi-ethnic culture of its native Transcarpathia. The musicians of the Hudaki Village Band continue to live and work in Ukraine. They support their family members and friends on the front line as well as refugees in western Ukraine.


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This year's Advent concert of the choir viril Domat will again take place in the Ems parish church and will be performed by the Ems men's choir together with the St. Gallen brass band formation "Die fidelen Humpenspatzen". The choir viril will perform a varied song program, performed in different languages. As a musical point of contrast, the brass band formation, which is entirely dedicated to Bohemian-Moravian music, will perform. The "Fihuspa Blechrunde" - as it is also called - has proven its high level of skill several times by participating in the meeting of the best Swiss brass music formations. It has already been chosen by the audience as the best brass band. In the final part of the concert, some works performed together by the choir and brass band can be heard.