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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We are Bach Aria Soloists, founded by Elizabeth Suh Lane. We are accomplished professional musicians and singers dedicated to presenting the miraculous arias from Johann Sebastian Bach's voluminous cantata collection as well as solo and chamber music by Bach, his contemporaries, and composers inspired by him.


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

Our mission is to educate and enrich the Kansas City community with Bach's brilliant music. Since 2000, our Back to Bach 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

Beau Bledsoe, guitarCollaboration is our mantra.  During our 2006/2007 season we partnered with the Kansas City Public Library for two  performances.  One was  our Holiday Concert with guest artist, Beau Bledsoe, the talented and popular guitarist.  Then in the Spring, we collaborated with the fabulous Kansas City Chorale, and Charles Bruffy in an unforgettable program of choral, and instrumental masterpieces featuring a beautiful Bach Easter Cantata (current season) .

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...).