The Berkshire Bach Society’s Outreach Program provides opportunities for local Berkshire high school musicians to learn and perform baroque music. An outreach program can include a concert at Ozawa Hall as well as coaching by musicians associated with the Berkshire Bach Society. Other services offered by the Society have included buying music and providing class lessons for violinists and cellists for technical improvement in baroque playing.

For 2005 the featured schools were Taconic High School and Pittsfield High School, whose combined choruses and the Pittsfield Schools Chamber Orchestra performed music of J. S. Bach and others on June 1, 2005. Music teachers Paula Nuss, Gaylen Rabuse and Alla Zernitskaya shared in conducting this concert.
	Taconic High School Concert Choir, Paula Nuss conductor, at Ozawa Hall, 2001

The coaches who have offered their services since the beginning of the Outreach Program are: Voice, Nancy Adams, Jack Brown and Josephine Mongiardo; Chorus, Penna Rose; Violin, Miriam Shapiro, Dorothy Strahl and Calvin Wiersma; Cello, Lucy Bardo; Bass, Peter Weitzner; Flute, Alison Hale; Trumpet, Allan Dean; Orchestra, Kenneth Cooper.

Our previous sponsored concerts:

• May 8, 2002 at Ozawa Hall. Music of Purcell and Vivaldi performed by the combined choruses of Mount Everett and Monument Mountain High Schools with the Mount Everett Madrigal Singers and the Monument Mountain Orchestra. Nancy Loder and Robert Salzman, conductors. Concert also sponsored by Berkshire Bank, Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., the Massachusetts Local Cultural Councils, and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.



• May 3, 2001 at Ozawa Hall. Music of J. S. Bach, G. P. Telemann, A. Vivaldi and others performed by the combined choruses of Taconic and Pittsfield High Schools and the Pittsfield Schools Chamber Orchestra. Paula Nuss, Gaylen Rabuse and Alla Zernitskaya, conductors. Concert also sponsored by Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Berkshire Bank and the Massachusetts Local Cultural Councils




Taconic HS & Pittsfield HS Concert Choirs,
Pittsfield Community Orchestra,
Paula Nuss conductor, at Ozawa Hall, 2001


• February 11, 1999 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Music of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel performed by the Taconic High School Chorus and the Pittsfield Schools Chamber Orchestra. Paula Nuss and Kenneth Cooper, conductors. Concert sponsored also by Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. and the Massachusetts Local Cultural Councils.



• May 14, 1998 at Ozawa Hall. Music of J. S. Bach and Vivaldi performed by the combined choruses of Mount Everett and Monument Mountain High Schools, the Mount Everett Madrigal Singers and the Monument Mountain String Orchestra. Conductors, Nancy Loder and Robert Salzman. Concert sponsored also by the Massachusetts Local Cultural Councils and Berkshire Bank.

Our programs are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.