Handel Week Festival

From the Artistic Director

Warmest of WELCOMES to the Handel Week Family! We, the artists, board, volunteers and listeners here at Handel Week prize Baroque masterpieces of music and especially the music of Handel. We present world-class readings of music in an opulent acoustic, all in a room with tremendous sight lines! We surround these in-person and virtual concerts with informative lectures, fascinating program notes and festive receptions. We reach out to young singers to learn what it is to be a professional musician through our Wells Choral Scholar program and we engage young Conductors to hone their craft with our Mark and Randi Ravitts Woodworth Award for young conductors. Welcome to our website and read here about our upcoming musical offerings!
To Handel and his Music!

Dennis Northway

Newsletter #9 - Your new FAVORITE Handel Oratorio!!

This coming year we will have the opportunity to hear an oratorio that Handel prized as one of his best, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato H.W.V 55 on a text after Milton sung in the ORIGINAL ENGLISH! Please plan to join us as we end our 26th Festival Season on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. Under the leadership of our Founding Artistic Director, Dennis Northway and Concertmaster Thomas Yang, the Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus will present the entire oratorio, which is unique in Handel’s output as it is actually an extended PASTORALE ODE. Some of Handel’s most magnificent music will be heard by some of your favorite soloists!! Please spread the word and plan to join us!