The Bach Festival Society will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2010. To mark this historic occasion, the Society is partnering with the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens and Crealdé School of Art to develop an exhibition of photography that captures the spirit of the Bach Festival Society, its Choir and Orchestra, Conductor Dr. John Sinclair, and the interior and exterior of the historic Knowles Memorial Chapel on the Rollins College Campus.Artists selected through a juried process led by Peter Schreyer, Executive Director of the Crealdé School of Art, will have an opportunity to photograph during Bach Festival rehearsals in 2009. Final images will be used to promote the 75th Annual Bach Festival in 2010 and will be installed in an exhibition at the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens opening in February 2010.
Photographers must submit up to 5 samples of their work on disk in .jpg format of 300 dpi or 8" x 10" prints to: The Bach Festival Society, Attn: Photography, 1000 Holt Ave. #2763, Winter Park, FL 32789
The deadline for consideration is January 23, 2009. Selected artists will be notified by February 16, 2009. For more details about this competition, please visit the Bach Festival Society’s website or call 407-646-2182.