The Sonoma County Bach Choir (Music 324) is a group of 54 gifted musicians drawn from the Sonoma State University student body, faculty, and staff, and members of the surrounding community. The Bach Choir specialized in the music of the Baroque period, with special emphasis on Johann Sebastian Bach; members and audiences alike thrill to the constant inventiveness and incredible degree of feeling in Bach's music. Other master featured include Monteverdi, Schutz, Handel, Hadyn, and Mozart. The group has been on two Italian tours (view a slide show of our 1999 Italian tour), a tour of Mexico, and, in June 2005, a tour of many of the cities in eastern Germany where Bach lived and worked (click "Slideshows" above to view pictures from Germany).

The Bach Choir is auditioned at the beginning of each academic year. Any slots which open up mid-year are filled at the beginning of the Spring semester. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings from 7-9:40 PM, in Ives 119 on the SSU campus in Rohnert Park.