Sunday, April 11, 2027—6:15pm
🎵The Cantata Insight Series is free and open to the public! Just save your seat!🎵
Wellshire Presbyterian Church
2999 S Colorado Blvd #6607, Denver, CO 80222
Save Your SeatIf BWV 4 is not Bach’s first known church cantata, BWV 150 certainly is. Even at a young age, Bach adopts an exploratory approach to form, narrative, and musical content. Chorales, recitatives, and da capo arias are completely absent— Bach chooses instead to highlight his formidable polyphonic and contrapuntal skills in seven dramatic movements.
He also sets both biblical text and contemporary poetry—a theme that’s common in his late cantatas but rare at this stage of his career. He also makes use of the lamento bass, a descending chromatic theme appearing in his last works, including The Art of Fugue and the Crucifixus of his B Minor Mass.
Scroll down to meet our soloists and find the music for our final chorale singalong!
Featured Soloists
Mackenzie Laun
Soprano
Mackenzie Laun (soprano) is from Denver, CO and is a frequent performer along the Front Range: she sings with Boulder Opera Company, Colorado Bach Ensemble, and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir.…
Gabrielle Razafinjatovo
Mezzo-soprano
Gabrielle Razafinjatovo is an American mezzo-soprano known for her versatile singing style, expressive musicality, and rich tone. She is an active performer and teacher in the Front Range of Colorado.…
Michael Hoffman
Tenor
Acclaimed for his warm, captive, and honest stage presence, tenor Michael Hoffman is an avid performer and interpreter of art song, oratorio and choral music. Currently residing in Littleton, Colorado,…
Andrew Garland
Baritone
Baritone Andrew Garland, is hailed as a performer whose artistry is a perfect combination between “baritone of strength and vocal opulence” (Opera News) and “cosmic energy and suavity” (Opera News). …