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June 23 - August 4

Each summer, the Bowdoin International Music Festival brings renowned artist instructors, performers, soloists, and gifted pre-professional classical musicians from around the world to beautiful Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for six weeks of intensive chamber music study, collaboration, and performance.

Musicians from groups such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Ying and Shanghai Quartets, as well as major conservatories like Juilliard, Eastman, Indiana, Shanghai, and London’s Royal College collaborate with our summer study participants and present more than 80 concerts each season in seven concert series.

Bach, Midori to headline 2012 concerts

Our 2012 season is already shaping up as one not to be missed. We will feature the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, including a two-concert appearance by Midori, who will perform all of Bach's unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas. The Shanghai Quartet will return after a one-year sabbatical, and many of our favorite artists and Virtuosi will return as well. Concert programs will be posted in early spring.

Bowdoin Virtuosi

Our popular Bowdoin Virtuosi program is entering its third year. Our four original Virtuosi, pianist Ben Kim and violinists Ray Chen, David Coucheron, and Suyoen Kim, return now as Associate Faculty. Three more great young artists - Jesus Gonzalez, in his second year in the program, and Laura Lutzke and Eric Zuber, both former Festival students - will return as our 2012 Virtuosi.

2011 Festival a Great Success

The 2011 Festival offered inspiring concerts featuring our artist faculty - including the Ying Quartet, Yefim Bronfman, Paul Neubauer, Liang Wang, the Bowdoin Virtuosi - and our extraordinary students. Ticket sales were brisk, audiences were enthusiastic, and critics cheered.