$45
Festival Artistic Directors David Ying and Phillip Ying bring their Quartet to Brunswick for a special concert this February in partnership with Bowdoin College. The program begins with Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 74, composed amid the tumultuous invasion of Vienna by Napoleon’s army, and nicknamed the “Harp” after the frequent pizzicato figures bounced between the players. This is followed by Conference of the Birds, commissioned by the Ying Quartet with funds from the Institute of American Music and freshly composed by Christopher…
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Feb
12
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Rd S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
Free
We invite you to join Artistic Directors David Ying and Phillip Ying for a special announcement about our 2018 season program. Join us for drinks and light appetizers and an opportunity to meet the Festival community.
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Feb
13
4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
The Daniel,
10 Water St.
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
The Festival’s public educational programs begin with a special event demonstrating chamber music rehearsal.
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Jun
25
11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
The summer opens with the Escher String Quartet’s Festival début. They begin with the only complete movement of Schubert’s mysteriously unfinished twelfth string quartet before exploring the early work of Arnold Schoenberg. Composed over a decade before the composer’s experiments with twelve tones, Schoenberg’s first Quartet features a densely woven motivic texture, stretching the limits of ‘D Minor’ and tonal expression. For the second half, the quartet joins forces with Alan Chow for Dvořák’s glorious Piano Quintet, setting the stage…
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Jun
25
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$175
Reception, Dinner, Music, and Raffle! Student Scholarships provide critical support for gifted young musicians as they prepare for meaningful careers in music. The Bowdoin International Music Festival offers a new generation of artists a renowned program of music study and performance. Your contribution to the Festival’s Scholarship Fund invests in the future of superb classical music in Maine and around the world. Tuesday, June 26 6:00 PM Moulton Union, Bowdoin College Reception & Dinner Prepared by the award-winning Bowdoin College…
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Jun
26
6:00 pm -
8:30 pm
Moulton Union,
Bowdoin College,
Brunswick,
ME
04011
$45
Amid favorites from Brahms and Beethoven, this evening’s concert also features the work of Leo Smit, the Amsterdam-born composer whose musical language matured in the Parisian milieu of Stravinsky and Milhaud. His Quintet was one of several pieces composed for Dutch virtuoso harpist Rosa Spier before both were captured by the Nazis during World War II. Spier was eventually released from Theresienstadt; Smit was murdered at Sobibór at the age of 43. JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A…
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Jun
27
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall,
12 Campus Road S
Brunswick,
ME
04011
FREE
In collaboration with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Festival will present artists in the museum’s gallery spaces this summer. Reservations required. FRANCIS POULENC Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8 Prelude Rustique Final Tao Lin, Catherine Lan, piano GYORGY LIGETI Six Bagatelles Julie Lee, flute • Shawn Hutchison, oboe • Dan Giacobbe, clarinet • Cheryl Fries, bassoon • David Alexander, horn HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Choros No. 2 Susan Kang, flute • Tyler Hsieh, clarinet JESSIE MONTGOMERY Strum Ivalas Quartet…
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Jun
28
11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
245 Maine Street
Brunswick,
ME
04011
