FREE
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 I. Allegro Sophie van der Sloot, cello • Tong Tong, piano Sophie is a student of Paul Katz. SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 I. Allegro moderato Grace Huh, violin • Feng Niu, piano Grace is a student of Almita Vamos. CONLON NANCARROW (1912-1997) Tango? Forrest Eimold, piano Forrest is a student of Soyeon Kate Lee. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY (1874-1951) Double Bass Concerto, Op. 3…
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Jul
21
1:00 pm -
2:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
The Jupiter String Quartet return to the Festival and join forces once again with the Ying Quartet for an evening of string music, starting with Dohnányi’s mature sextet, putting a lush coat on a distinctly Brahmsian genre, even in the 1930s. Shostakovich’s and Mendelssohn’s works, on the other hand, display both composers’ youthful voices – each was written before their twentieth birthday, yet both are already bursting with their authors’ unique voices. JUPITER STRING QUARTET Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin…
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Jul
22
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
Masterclasses give the audience a first-hand look into the teaching and learning process that goes into creating music. Honing technical craft, understanding the nuances of musical language, and finding personal meaning in music are all part of a great masterclass. FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821 II. Adagio III. Allegretto Jacob van der Sloot, viola • Cynthia Chih-Yu Tseng, piano Jacob is a student of Dimitri Murrath and is sponsored by Sallie Smith Kise. Cynthia is…
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Jul
23
10:00 am -
12:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 7:00 PM — JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 I. Allegro amabile II. Andante tranquillo – Vivace III. Allegretto grazioso Tong Chen, violin • Yerim Rhee, piano Tong is a student of Mikhail Kopelman and is sponsored by Katharine J. Watson. Yerim is a student of Pei-Shan Lee and is sponsored by Bill & Sally Haggett. TORU TAKEMITSU (1930-1996) Voice pour flute solo Yi Xiang, flute Yi is a student of Linda Chesis and…
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Jul
23
7:00 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
Paul Schoenfield dug into the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe for his Trio, with movements that dance to the Freylakh and Kozatzke. Ernest Bloch, too, famously sought musical inspiration in his Jewish roots, although it was to the Far East of his imagination that he turned in his Suite for Viola and Piano, composed a century ago. And guest artist Steven Mackey describes his 2017 work as ‘a dialogue between music that is readily grasped and that which seems…
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Jul
24
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
Free
An opportunity to learn about and experience the creative process of a living composer. These distinguished artists will discuss aspects of their music and inspirations and then accept questions from the audience. Steven Mackey – a Grammy Award winner lauded by Gramophone for his “explosive and ethereal imagination” – is regarded as one of the leading composers of his generation, with compositions ranging from orchestral and chamber music to dance and opera. Born in 1956 to American parents stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, his first musical passion was playing the electric guitar…
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Jul
25
9:30 am -
11:00 am
Studzinski Rehearsal Room,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 7:00 PM — ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87, B. 162 I. Allegro con fuoco Hannah Goldstick, violin • Bethlehem Hadgu, viola • Sophie van der Sloot, cello • Catharine Baek, piano The group is coached by Kirsten Docter. Hannah is sponsored by Hugh & Norma Phelps. SAMUEL ZYMAN (1956-) Sonata for Flute and Piano I. Allegro energico Yi Xiang, flute • Feng Niu, piano Yi is a student of Linda Chesis and…
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Jul
25
7:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
Commissioned in 2013, guest artist Steven Mackey’s One Red Rose was composed to commemorate President John F. Kennedy on the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination. To find an artistic point of entry into the trauma of the assassination, Mackey empathized with Jackie Kennedy, describing her as a “vivid symbol of way the assassination traverses the public and the private”. On the second half, the second of Fauré’s magisterial piano quartets (hear the first on July 15). WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Flute Quartet…
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Jul
26
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
Student composers will select a work of art from the museum gallery and use it as inspiration for a new composition, which will be performed by Festival students alongside the original work of art.
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Jul
27
2:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
245 Maine Street
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
Guest Artist Sponsorship by Elliot Rosen & Sharon Cohen Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors and recital series. His commanding technique, power and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike. He has been nominated for 6 GRAMMY® Awards, winning in 1997. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano…
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Jul
28
2:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
Free
An opportunity to learn about and experience the creative process of a living composer. These distinguished artists will discuss aspects of their music and inspirations and then accept questions from the audience. As an artist, Matthew Evan Taylor, is intrigued by four aspects of music; the growth of complex music from a simple idea, the social nature of the art form (especially, as it manifests in improvisation and the audience’s reaction), the evocation of color and atmosphere through sound, and…
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Jul
28
4:30 pm -
5:30 pm
Studzinski Rehearsal Room,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 7:00 PM: Featuring Student Compositions — The first part of tonight’s program features works by the Festival’s student composers. Each selected a work of art at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and used it as inspiration for a new piece. The Festival’s composer-in-residence is Derek Bermel. DANIEL DE TOGNI (1993-) Unbreakable: Music for Big Spaces Ela Kodžas, violin • Ethan Schlenker, cello • Braden Vaughn, Jonas Koh, percussion BEATRICE FERREIRA (1994-) Kulning Andy Peng, Kayla Bryan, violin •…
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Jul
28
7:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
The Jupiter String Quartet returns to present a program spanning a century and a half and spread across Europe – opening with another exquisite work by precocious young Mendelssohn, and concluding with Dvořák’s late quartet, composed just after returning to Europe from his years in America. In the middle, it’s a concise and motivically dense work from Shostakovich, one of the twentieth-century titans of the string quartet genre. JUPITER STRING QUARTET Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin • Liz Freivogel, viola…
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Jul
29
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 1:00 PM — JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue No. 18 in G-sharp Minor, BWV 887 Peter Smith, piano Peter is a student of Yong Hi Moon. SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 I. Andantino Kevin Wei-min Chan, violin • Minjung Seo, piano Kevin is a student of Robin Scott. ERWIN SCHULHOFF (1894-1942) Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Bass I. Andante con moto II. Furiant: Allegro furioso - Pesante Elena Rubin, flute…
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Jul
30
1:00 pm -
7:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 7:00 PM — FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Fantasy in C Major, Op. 159, D. 934 I. Andante molto II. Allegretto III. Andantino IV. Tempo I David Bernat, violin • Jiarong Li, piano David is a student of Itamar Zorman and is sponsored by James T. Morgan. Jiarong is a student of Pei-Shan Lee and is sponsored by the Richard & Maryan F. Chapin Scholarship Fund. ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 I. Allegro brillante II. In…
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Jul
30
7:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
Lecture: The Orchestra Conductor of the XXI Century and the Orchestra of the Future Angel Gil-Ordóñez is Music Director of DC’s PostClassical Ensemble, Principal Guest Conductor of New York’s Perspectives Ensemble, and Music Director of the Georgetown University Orchestra. He also serves as lead advisor for Trinitate Philharmonia, a program in León, Mexico modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema. Mr. Gil-Ordóñez is a regular guest conductor at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine. He has appeared as guest conductor with…
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Jul
31
11:00 am -
12:30 pm
Gibson Hall 101,
Bowdoin College
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
Takemitsu’s soft spoken Toward the Sea was written originally for Greenpeace’s ‘Save the Whales’ campaign in 1981, performed here in its arrangement for alto flute and harp. Drawing upon Herman Melville, the work includes movements titled ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘Cape Cod’. The atmosphere of Elgar’s Piano Quintet, meanwhile, conjures a more foreboding atmosphere – ‘wonderful’ and ‘weird’, as Alice Elgar wrote, ‘evidently reminiscent of sinister trees…’ JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1038 Adam Wilson Sadberry, flute • Janet…
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Jul
31
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 12:30 PM — BACH-BUSONI (1866–1924) Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004 Forrest Howell, piano Forrest is a student of Ran Dank. MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Tzigane Raunak Kumar, violin • Ya-Ping (Chloe) Lo, piano Raunak is a student of Itamar Zorman. Ya-Ping is a student of Pei-Shan Lee and is sponsored by Patricia E. Bonner. ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 I. So rasch wie möglich Tianmi Wu, piano Tianmi is a student of…
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Aug
01
12:30 pm -
7:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
— 7:00 PM — JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 I. Allegro appassionato Jacob van der Sloot, viola • Yu-Shin Liou, piano Jacob is a student of Dimitri Murrath and is sponsored by Sallie Smith Kise. Yu-Shin is a student of Pei-Shan Lee and is sponsored by George & Christine Bachrach. LIBBY LARSEN (1950-) Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano I. Strong, Deliberate II. Ebb and Flow Throughout III. Flat Out Steven Palacio,…
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Aug
01
7:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
— 11:00 AM — JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Sonata No. 1 in E Minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 38 I. Allegro non troppo Carson Ling-Efird, cello • Ya-Ping (Chloe) Lo, piano Carson is a student of Paul Katz. Ya-Ping is a student of Pei-Shan Lee and is sponsored by Patricia E. Bonner. KARL GOLDMARK (1830-1915) Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 28 I. Allegro moderato Vincent Cart-Sanders, violin • Tong Tong, piano Vincent is a student of Mikhail…
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Aug
02
11:00 am -
5:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
