Founded in 2009, The Bach & Beethoven Experience (BBE) is a Chicago-based ensemble that brings artists together to make classical music into community and transform the classical concert experience. Hailed as “thrilling…charming..performed  with such grace..joy and sincerity that a watcher and listener had to be won  over" (Bloomington Herald Times), the BBE has performed across the U.S. including at Baroque on Beaver Island Festival, Early Music Academy in Ann Arbor, the Green Mill, Martyrs’, 4th Presbyterian downtown, Boston Early Music Festival fringe series, the  Beat Hotel, the Old Town School of Folk Music, Bloomington Early Music Festival, and  more. The BBE has collaborated with various organizations including Alchymy Viols, Artemisia Vocal Trio, Bella Voce Camerata, DePaul University’s Humanities Department, The Peoples Music School, and others. The BBE has also released four albums: Carols (2023), Chicago Stories (2021), A Gaelic Summer (2019) and An Appalachian Summer  (2019), and has appeared on WGN-AM, Chicago Irish Radio, WFMT, and WNUR.

Brandi Berry Benson, violin, Artistic Director of the BBE, Chickasaw citizen
Leighann Daihl Ragusa, traverso and Development Director of the BBE
Rachael Youngman, Choctaw narrator and vocalist
Kiyoe Matsuura, viola
Erica Rubis, cello
Michaela Marchi, indigenous percussion, Isleta Pueblo tribal affiliation