The Bach Choir Stuttgart was founded for the Bach Year 2000 by Kirchenmusikdirektor Prof Jörg-Hannes Hahn, who has been its artistic director since its inception.  Its repertoire is wide-ranging with music by J.S. Bach, classical and new oratorio repertoire and sacred a cappella music for church services and concerts.

In 2001 the choir sang in the Stuttgart premiere of Oskar Gottlieb Blarr’s “Jesus-Passion”.  A CD recording in 2005 of Camille Saint-Saens’s “Oratorio de Noel” for the CANTATE label was followed in 2007 by Penderecki’s “St Luke Passion” and the world premiere of Sidney Corbett’s “Mary Magdalene” (SWR recording). In 2009 the choir sang works including Michael Tippett’s “A child of our time” followed by Frank Martin’s “Golgotha” and “In terra pax” and in 2011, the first Stuttgart performance of Anno Schreier’s work “Er ist nicht”.

In 2014, the Bachchor Stuttgart gave a highly acclaimed performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” in the Stuttgart Liederhalle. In the 2014/15 season the choir performed six oratorio works including two world premières: Otfried Büsing’s “Psalmen des Lichts” in the Stiftskirche Stuttgart and “Sacred Vessel” by Martin Smolka with the Gächinger Kantorei at the opening concert of the German Protestant Church Congress in the Stuttgart Liederhalle in June 2015.

This was followed in 2016 by the second performance in Germany of James MacMillan’s “St. John Passion” and Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis”.  In 2017 the choir sang the world premiere of Klaus Dreher’s “Die graue Passion” and the first performance in southern Germany of J. S. Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with the choirs/ensembles in separate locations. In 2019 a CD of Brahms’s “Ein deutsches Requiem” was released with Renate Arends, Konstantin Wolff, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Bachchor Stuttgart. In 2020 the choir received nationwide recognition for its performance of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Requiem für einen jungen Dichter”.