Our Mission is to celebrate the works, inspiration, and ongoing influence of J.S.Bach worldwide by immersing audiences in a festival experience integrating music, education and ideas, and by meaningful community engagement throughout the year. Our Vision is to be a world class festival of music and ideas transcending the traditional boundaries of performance and presentation and to provide fresh musical contexts that spark the imagination, stimulate the mind, and enrich people’s lives in multi-faceted ways. The Carmel Bach Festival began in 1935 as a four-day series of concerts and is now a two-week celebration of concerts, recitals, master classes, lectures, free community concerts, and open rehearsals. We offer innovative artistic programming across all concerts, off-season outreach to schools, activities to expand access outside Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula. We are taking strategic risks to cultivate younger and diverse participants.