Nate Widelitz, CBS Artistic Director
New Directions for CBS &
Announcing our 2025–2026 Season
We are thrilled to announce that Nate Widelitz has been appointed as the new artistic director of the California Bach Society.
Nate brings to CBS a deep passion for early music, a collaborative spirit, and an artistic sensibility grounded in both scholarship and performance. His values resonate fully with CBS’s long-standing identity—where our core focus on Baroque repertoire blends with adventures in Renaissance, Romantic, and modern works, brought to life with care and curiosity.
Our 2025–2026 Season
CORI SPEZZATI
Echoes in the Cathedral: The Art of Spatial Sound
October 3–5, 2025
ON LEAVING
Thresholds of the Soul: Music for Parting and Passage
February 27–March 1, 2026
LAUDATE COELI
Songs of Light in Winter’s Deep
December 5–7, 2025
DER SCHWANENGESANG
The Final Word: Schütz’s Testament of Faith
May 1–3, 2026
Tickets will be on sale soon.
A cornerstone of the Bay Area early music scene for more than 50 years, California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs four concert sets in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Berkeley.
“CBS’s repertory is particularly engaging and rewarding, giving us a chance to explore many fine works of music we would otherwise be unaware of or have little chance of hearing.”
We invite you to keep in touch with us! Please follow us on Facebook, and sign up for our email newsletter below.
2022–2023 Season Sampler
Don’t miss an issue of our e-newsletter
If you’re a fan of CBS and the music we perform, we know you’ll enjoy our free e-newsletter! Each issue is packed with information on our performances, along with all kinds of fun and fascinating tidbits, like excerpts from our program notes, audio and video clips, behind-the-scenes updates, and special announcements.
We never share email addresses with other organizations. Please add your mailing address if you would also like to receive our season brochure, and special invitations.
California Bach Society in concert in Berkeley, Fall 2019. Photo by John Gale.