The Newburyport Festival Baroque Orchestra led by Nurit Pacht, concertmaster, present a special holiday baroque concert!

Get in the holiday spirit with two complimentary passes to the concert on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 100 Pine Hill Rd, Bedford, MA.

Concertmaster/Violinist Nurit Pacht was a top prize winner in the Irving Klein International Music Competition and Tibor Varga Competition in Switzerland. As a soloist she was featured in events such as the European conference for the inauguration of the Euro in Brussels and under the auspices of the European Commission and United Nations she toured the former Yugoslavia, during the cease-fire in 1996. In 2015, she performed for Pope Francis on his visit to New York and gave a State Department funded recital tour of Ukraine. She has collaborated with stage director Robert Wilson, choreographers such as Bill T. Jones and has worked closely with many of today's celebrated composers. She has toured as soloist with orchestras around the world including the Houston Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. The Israeli Composer Noam Sheriff dedicated the violin concerto "Dibrot" to her and she performed it in several prestigious venues of Israel. As a baroque violinist, she has a master's degree from Juilliard's Historical Performance program. Ms. Pacht has recorded for Nimbus Records and Toccata Classics.