Philip Venables

Tag: J.S. Bach

Venables plays Bach at Bozar Organ Night in Brussels

5 May 2025

Bozar in Brussels will be creating another rendition of my 42-speaker sound installation Venables plays Bach as part of their Organ Night at the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula. The installation explores my relationship with J.S. Bach’s Little…

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‘My Favourite Piece…’ at Transit Festival, Leuven

13 October 2021

Andreas Borregaard will perform My Favourite Piece is the Goldberg Variations at the Transit Festival in Leuven. The strapline of the festival is “The Sound of Tomorrow”. Ted Huffman and I made this piece with Andreas during the lockdown, and…

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Venables plays Bach

8 October 2021

This is the catalogue page for Venables plays Bach. Venables plays Bach is a 42-channel looping sound installation commissioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris for their 2021 Festival, installed in l’Église de Saint Eustache. My introduction Twenty-five years ago, I…

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The live Organ component of ‘Venables plays Bach’

4 October 2021

This post accompanies the programme booklet for Venables plays Bach, a 42-channel sound installation in l’Église de Saint Eustache, Paris, as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris. The installation can be heard each day between 2.30–5.30pm, 7th to 16th…

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Venables plays Bach announced at Festival d’Automne à Paris

12 August 2021

I will be making a brand new 42-speaker sound installation at the Church of Saint Eustache in Paris as part of this years Festival d’Automne à Paris. The installation, Venables plays Bach, explores my relationship with J.S. Bach’s Little Prelude…

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My Favourite Piece is the Goldberg Variations

24 February 2021

For the last year I have been collaborating with Ted Huffman and the accordionist Andreas Borregaard on a new piece. This has now come to fruition, and was premiered (virtually) at the Borealis Festival in Bergen on 20th March 2021,…

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