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In Memoriam: Maryan Chapin
July 12, 2016
CHAPIN, Maryan Fox of Georgetown, Maine formerly of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died peacefully on July 6, 2016 at the age of 83; she was surrounded by her family. Maryan Chapin, daughter of Louis Rodman and Mary Catherine Cannon Fox was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1933. She attended the Westover School and graduated from Vassar College in 1954. She marrie ...
Q&A with Jason Friedman, horn
June 23, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
Q&A with John Petrey, viola
May 23, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
Q&A with Amalia Rinehart, piano
May 18, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
Q&A with Roger Zare, composition
May 9, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
Q&A with Danielle McBryan, oboe
May 3, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
Q&A with Justin DeFilippis, violin
April 25, 2016
In 2014, in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with artis ...
The 2016 Concert Season
March 30, 2016
It is our pleasure to introduce the Festival’s 2016 season: Re-Invention. In fact the idea of re-invention is always at the heart of composition, performance, and teaching—everything we do at BIMF. It also characterizes the growth process that keeps our Festival relevant and dynamic. The Monday Showcase series features string quartet based programs pl ...
Q&A with Xiaoxiao Du, violin
March 15, 2016
In the past few weeks we’ve spoken with a vast array of musicians, from pianists to violinists, cellists to double bassists. We’ve talked with participants from more than four continents. In that time we’ve learned a lot; such as the amount of love and care these individuals have for their craft and that being a musician isn’t always an easy endeavor ...
Q&A with Boris Abramov, violin
March 8, 2016
We’ve spent the past few weeks exploring the lives and inspirations of various musicians from all corners of the globe. But what happens when the student becomes the instructor? This week we sat down with a former student and now instructor, violinist Boris Abramov, to analyze that very question. Abramov was born in Azerbaijan in 1989 and began studying ...