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SUMMARY:Ying Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Ying Quartet \nProgramming to be announced. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nYing Quartet\nRobin Scott\, Janet Ying\, violin • Phillip Ying\, viola • David Ying\, cello \nThe Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music realm\, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its third decade\, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. The Quartet’s performances regularly take place in many of the world’s most important concert halls; at the same time\, the Ying’s belief that concert\nmusic can also be a meaningful part of everyday life has drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace\, schools\, juvenile prisons\, and the White House. \nThe Ying Quartet first came to professional prominence in the early 1990s as the first recipient of an NEA Rural Residence Grant which led to it serving as the resident quartet of Jesup\, Iowa\, a farm town of 2\,000 people. Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes\, schools\, churches\, and banks\, the Quartet had its first opportunities to use music and creative endeavor to help build community and authentic human connection. The Quartet considers its time in Jesup the foundation of its present musical life and goals. \nThe Quartet’s upcoming 2025-26 season features appearances with Chamber Music Hamilton\, the Feldman Chamber Music Society\, Huntsville Chamber Music Guild\, Westchester Chamber Music Society\, Chamber Music Society Williamsburg\, Chamber Music Society of Utica\, Evergreen Woods\, and the Port Townsend Chamber Music Series. \nThe Ying’s ongoing LifeMusic commissioning project\, created in response to its commitment to expanding the rich string quartet repertoire\, has already achieved an impressive history. Supported by the Institute for American Music\, the Ying Quartet commissions both established and emerging composers to create music that reflects contemporary American life. \nRecent works include Billy Childs’ Awakening; Lera Auerbach’s Sylvia’s Diary; Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 3\, To the Victims of War; Sebastian Currier’s Next Atlantis; and John Novacek’s Three Rags for String Quartet. In August 2016\, the Ying Quartet released a new Schumann/Beethoven recording on Sono Luminus with renowned cellist Zuill Bailey\, and in that season the five toured with the Schumann Cello Concerto transcribed for cello and string quartet along with Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata\,” also reimagined for cello quintet. \nThe Ying Quartet’s numerous other recordings reflect many of the group’s wide-ranging musical interests and have generated consistent\, enthusiastic acclaim. The group’s CD “American Anthem” (Sono Luminus)\, heralding the music of Randall Thompson\, Samuel Barber\, and Howard Hanson\, was released in 2013 to rave reviews; its 2007 Telarc release of the three Tchaikovsky Quartets and the Souvenir de Florence (with James Dunham and Paul Katz) was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category. \nAs longtime quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, NY\, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous\, sequentially designed chamber music program. One cornerstone of chamber music activity at Eastman is the noted “Music for All” program\, in which all students curate opportunities to perform in community settings beyond the concert hall. The Quartet is also the ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival\, and from 2001-2008\, the members of the Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. \nThe Ying Quartet are Robin Scott and Janet Ying\, violins\, Phillip Ying\, viola and David Ying\, cello.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/ying-quartet-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-01-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260703T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260703T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T022626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T153943Z
UID:23972-1783107000-1783112400@www.bowdoinfestival.org
SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-03-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Lysander Piano Trio
DESCRIPTION:Lysander Piano Trio \nProgramming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nLysander Piano Trio\nItamar Zorman\, violin • James Kim\, cello • Liza Stepanova\, piano \nThe Lysander Piano Trio has been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble\, passionate playing\, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors” and by The Washington Post for “an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness” and “vivid engagement carried by soaring\, ripely Romantic playing.” The Trio’s debut recording After A Dream (CAG Records) was acclaimed by The New York Times for its “polished and spirited interpretations.” The Lysander Trio is devoted to inventive programming\, finding intriguing connections between works from all over the world\, and uncovering lesser-known gems of the repertoire from the past to the present. \nHighlights of the 2024-25 season include performances at the Asheville Chamber Music Series\, Bender JCC of Greater Washington\, Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky\, Chamber Music Society of Utica\, Cosmos Club\, Valley Classical Concerts\, Westchester Chamber Music Society\, Music Mountain\, Hunter International Music Festival\, Nantucket Musical Arts Society\, and other notable series in Chattanooga\, Palm Beach\, and the Greater Boston area. In the 2023-24 season\, the Trio gave debuts at Parlance Chamber Concerts\, Feldman Chamber Music Society\, Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg\, Northeast Kingdom Classical Series\, Blue Hill Concert Association\, University of Idaho’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series\, Nelson Overture Concerts Society\, and Kelowna Chamber Concert Association in Canada. In the spring of 2023\, the Lysander “brought the house down” (Dumbarton Concerts) with its new tango-infused collaboration with Argentine bandoneonist and composer JP Jofre and looks forward to continuing the collaboration in upcoming seasons. \nThe Lysander Piano Trio has spent over a decade performing around the US with appearances at notable venues such as the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater\, Los Angeles’ Da Camera Society\, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall\, San Francisco’s Music at Kohl Mansion\, Palm Beach’s Kravis Center and Norton Museum of Art\, Chamber Music Raleigh\, Concerts International Memphis\, Sanibel Music Festival\, Florida Keys Concert Association\, Chamber Music Tulsa\, Juneau Jazz and Classics\, and notable college venues including Middlebury College\, Clemson University\, Lee University’s Presidential Concert Series\, Purdue University’s Convocations Series\, and University of Illinois’ Krannert Center. Summer and festival appearances include the Bard Music Festival\, Cooperstown Summer Music Festival\, Copenhagen Summer Festival\, The Chautauqua Institution\, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts\, and a critically acclaimed recital at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Lysander Trio also performed abroad in recent seasons\, notably at Calgary Pro Musica in Canada\, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende in Mexico\, and a tour of Israel. Orchestral engagements include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra\, University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and Greenwich Village Orchestra in New York City. \nThe Trio has a long-standing commitment to working with living composers and building a new repertoire for the piano trio. The Lysander Trio’s latest commission\, Nostos by Udi Perlman\, was premiered in 2024 and has been received enthusiastically by audiences across the US. Following a recent performance of Nostos at Music Mountain\, The Millbrook Independent proclaimed: “That melody has been ringing in my ears over the past twenty-four hours; it provided a delightful conclusion\, and I wished to hear the work once more!” The ensemble’s commissions also include Gilad Cohen’s Around the Cauldron (2017)\, co-commissioned by Concert Artists Guild and premiered at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall; Ghostwritten Variations\, by Venezuelan-American composer Reinaldo Moya; Jakub Ciupinski’s The Black Mirror; and Four Movements Inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream\,” penned by four pre-teen composers of ComposerCraft from NYC’s Kaufman Music Center and premiered at Merkin Concert Hall in 2014. Lysander members also premiered Jennifer Higdon’s Love Sweet for soprano and piano trio\, which received its world-premiere recording together with acclaimed soprano Sarah Shafer on the group’s 2021 release\, Mirrors. Beyond its praise from Musical America for being “strikingly inventive…meticulous” and from The Strad for its “evocative moments\,” Gramophone celebrated Mirrors by noting that “all six of this release’s compositions benefit from the Lysander Trio’s finely honed ensemble values and well-characterised solo contributions.” \nThe Lysander Piano Trio\, whose name is inspired by the character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, was formed at The Juilliard School. The Trio studied with Ronald Copes of the Juilliard String Quartet\, the late Joseph Kalichstein\, and Seymour Lipkin. Early in their career\, Lysander became a standout at competitions\, with top honors at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition\, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition (Grand Prize)\, the J. C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition (First Prize)\, and the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. \n 
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/lysander-piano-trio/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-08-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T023524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T154240Z
UID:23979-1783711800-1783717200@www.bowdoinfestival.org
SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-10-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T024203Z
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Dal Niente
DESCRIPTION:Ensemble Dal Niente \nProgramming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nEnsemble Dal Niente\nCarrie Shaw\, soprano • Emma Hospelhorn\, flute • Chris Wild\, cello • Mabel Kwan\, piano \n\nEnsemble Dal Niente performs\, develops\, and sustains new and experimental music for small to large chamber ensemble. We are dedicated to growing relationships with artists\, composers\, and listeners; advancing distinct and challenging musical voices; and sharing that work with our Chicago\, U.S.\, and international communities. \nDal Niente’s roster of 27 musicians presents an uncommonly broad range of contemporary music. Audiences coming to Dal Niente shows can expect distinctive productions—from fully staged operas to multimedia spectacles to intimate solo performances— that are curated to pique curiosity and connect art\, culture\, and people. \nSince 2004\, Ensemble Dal Niente has performed concerts across Europe and the Americas\, including  appearances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC; The Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City; Radialsystem Berlin\, MusicArte Festival in Panama City; The Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection in Washington\, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Big Ears Music Festival; The Americas Society; and the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Germany. Dal Niente is the recipient of the 2019 Fromm Music Foundation prize\, and was the first-ever ensemble to win the Kranichstein prize for interpretation in 2012. The group has recordings available on the New World\, New Amsterdam\, New Focus\, Navona\, Parlour Tapes+\, and Carrier labels; has held residencies at The University of Chicago\, Harvard University\, Stanford University\, Brown University\, Brandeis University\, and Northwestern University\, among others; and collaborated with a wide range of composers\, from Enno Poppe to George Lewis to Hilda Paredes to Roscoe Mitchell. \nThe ensemble’s name\, Dal Niente (“from nothing” in Italian)\, is a tribute to Helmut Lachenmann’s Dal niente (Interieur III)\, a work that upended traditional conceptions of instrumental technique; and also a reference to the group’s humble beginnings.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/ensemble-dal-niente/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music,Livestream,Sundays,New Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Brentano String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Brentano String Quartet \nProgramming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nBrentano String Quartet\nMark Steinberg\, Serena Canin\, violin • Misha Amory\, viola • Nina Lee\, cello \nWith a career spanning over three decades\, the Brentano Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism; and the Times (London) hails their “wonderful\, selfless music-making.” Known for its unique sensibility\, probing interpretive style\, and original programming\, the Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals\, thus establishing itself as one of the world’s preeminent ensembles. \nDedicated and highly sought after as educators\, the Quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music for the past decade. They also lead the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and appear regularly at the Taos School of Music. Previously\, the Quartet served for fifteen years as Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University. \nIn the 2024-25 concert season\, the Quartet will premiere a program called “Evocations of Home\,” featuring a new work by Lei Liang in honor of the late composer Chou Wen-chung. In spring 2025\, they will perform Haydn’s complete Op. 33 quartets at New York’s Carnegie Hall and in several other U.S. cities. Other recent projects include “Dido Reimagined\,” a monodrama for quartet and voice with soprano Dawn Upshaw\, composed by Pulitzer-winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann\, as well as a viola quintet\, “Heart Speaks to Heart\,” by composer James MacMillan. \nFormed in 1992\, The Brentano Quartet has received numerous accolades\, including\, in 1995\, the prestigious Naumburg and Cleveland Quartet Awards. They have been privileged to collaborate with such artists as soprano Jessye Norman and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato\, as well as pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss. The Quartet has commissioned works from some of the most important composers of our time\, including Bruce Adolphe\, Matthew Aucoin\, Gabriela Frank\, Stephen Hartke\, Vijay Iyer\, Steven Mackey\, and Charles Wuorinen. \nThe Quartet’s notable recordings include Beethoven’s Quartet\, Op. 131 (Aeon) which was featured in the 2012 film “A Late Quartet\,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken\, and a 2017 live album with Joyce DiDonato\, “Into the Fire—Live from Wigmore Hall” (Warner.) Their most recent release features the K. 428 and K. 465 (“Dissonance”) Quartets of Mozart for the Azica label. \nThe Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano\, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved\,” the intended recipient of his famous love confession
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/brentano-string-quartet-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T024805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T154551Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-15-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Zlatomir Fung Plays Tchaikovsky
DESCRIPTION:Zlatomir Fung Plays Tchaikovsky \nThis concert will feature cellist Zlatomir Fung playing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations alongside maestro Peter Bay and the Festival Orchestra. Full programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nZlatomir Fung \nCellist Zlatomir Fung burst onto the scene as the first American in four decades (and youngest musician ever) to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division. He has since garnered accolades\, critical acclaim and standing ovations at performances around the world\, becoming recognized as one of the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity\, the 26-year-old has already proven himself a star among the next generation of world-class musicians. \nHighlights of the 2025-2026 season include a recital at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in March and a return to the Aspen\, Ravinia and La Jolla Music Society Festivals. He appears with the Fort Worth Symphony under conductor Peter Oundjian and with the Nashville\, Albany\, Knoxville and Pacific Symphonies\, Sacramento and Reno Philharmonics and Sarasota Orchestra. Appearances outside the U.S. include the Pohang International Music Festival in Korea and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in China; Belgrade Philharmonic in Serbia; Melbourne Symphony; and a recital at Wigmore Hall in London. \nIn April 2025\, Signum Records released Fung’s debut album\, Fantasies\, a collection of opera fantasies and transcriptions for cello and piano to enthusiastic reviews. \nFung served as artist in residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2023-2024 season\, appearing in four London performances. Other recent debuts include the New York Philharmonic\, Cleveland Orchestra\, Orchestre National de Lille\, and BBC Philharmonic\, as well as the Baltimore\, Dallas\, Detroit\, Seattle\, Milwaukee\, Utah\, Rochester\, and Kansas City Symphonies.  He has performed at major festivals\, including Ravinia\, Blossom\, Aspen\, Bravo Vail and Grant Park in the U.S. and Verbier\, Dresden\, Leoš Janáček International and Tsinandali Festivals and the Cello Biennale Amsterdam in Europe. \nIn addition to demonstrating a mastery of the canon with his impeccable technique\, Fung brings exceptional insight into contemporary repertoire\, championing composers such as Unsuk Chin\, Katherine Balch\, and Anna Clyne. In 2023\, under the baton of Gemma New and with the Dallas Symphony\, Fung gave the world premiere of Katherine Balch’s whisper concerto to great acclaim as the dedicatee of the work; he gave its UK premiere in February 2024 with the BBC Philharmonic\, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. \nFung has received many distinguished prizes and awards\, including the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2022. As a participant in WXQR’s Artist Propulsion Lab\, he wrote The Elves and the Cello Maker\, a radio play in which he also performed. Fung has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and appeared six times on NPR’s From the Top. Fung joined the faculty of his alma mater\, The Juilliard School\, in 2024 as one of the youngest members of the faculty. \nFung performs on a circa 1735 cello by Domenico Montagnana\, on loan from a generous benefactor\, and the 1696 “Lord Aylesford” Strad\, on loan from the Sasakawa Music Foundation (formerly the Nippon Music Foundation). \nOf Bulgarian and Chinese heritage\, Zlatomir Fung was born into a family of mathematicians and began playing cello at age three. Fung studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy\, where he was a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. Outside of music\, his interests include chess\, cinema\, and creative writing.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/zlatomir-fung-plays-tchaikovsky/
LOCATION:Crooker Theater\, 116 Maquoit Rd\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T025759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T154713Z
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SUMMARY:Jupiter & Ying Quartets
DESCRIPTION:Jupiter & Ying Quartets \nThe Jupiter and Ying Quartets continue the Festival tradition of teaming up. Programming to be announced this spring. \nYing Quartet\nRobin Scott\, Janet Ying\, violin • Phillip Ying\, viola • David Ying\, cello \nJupiter String Quartet\nMélanie Clapiès\, Meg Freivogel\, violin • Liz Freivogel\, viola • Daniel McDonough\, cello \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/jupiter-ying-quartets-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260722T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260722T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T030034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T154800Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-22-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-24-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T031554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155206Z
UID:24000-1785180600-1785186000@www.bowdoinfestival.org
SUMMARY:Shanghai Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Shanghai Quartet \nProgramming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nShanghai Quartet\nWeigang Li\, Angelo Xiang Yu\, violin • Honggang Li\, viola • Sihao He\, cello \nOver the past 40 years\, the Shanghai Quartet has become one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. The Shanghai’s elegant style\, impressive technique\, and emotional breadth allows the group to move seamlessly between masterpieces of Western music\, traditional Chinese folk music\, and cutting-edge contemporary works. Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983\, soon after the end of China’s harrowing Cultural Revolution\, the group came to the United States to complete its studies; since then the members have been based in the U.S. while maintaining a robust touring schedule at leading chamber-music series throughout North America\, Europe\, and Asia. \nRecent performance highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Freer Gallery (Washington\, D.C.)\, and the Festival Pablo Casals in France\, and Beethoven cycles for the Brevard Music Center\, the Beethoven Festival in Poland\, and throughout China. The Quartet also frequently performs at Wigmore Hall\, the Budapest Spring Festival\, Suntory Hall\, and has collaborations with the NCPA and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras. Upcoming highlights include the premiere of a new work by Marcos Balter for the Quartet and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo for the Phillips Collection\, return performances for Maverick Concerts and the Taos School of Music\, and engagements in Los Angeles\, Syracuse\, Albuquerque\, and Salt Lake City. \nAmong innumberable collaborations with eminent artists\, they have performed with the Tokyo\, Juilliard\, and Guarneri Quartets; cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell; pianists Menahem Pressler\, Peter Serkin\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, and Yuja Wang; pipa virtuoso Wu Man; and the vocal ensemble Chanticleer. The Shanghai Quartet appears regularly at many of North America’s most prominent chamber-music festival\, including annual performances for Maverick Concerts\, the Brevard Music Center\, and Music Mountain. \nThe Shanghai Quartet has a long history of championing new music\, with a special interest in works that juxtapose the traditions of Eastern and Western music. The Quartet has commissioned works from an encyclopedic list of the most important composers of our time\, including William Bolcom\, Sebastian Currier\, David Del Tredici\, Tan Dun\, Vivian Fung\, Lowell Lieberman\, Zhou Long\, Marc Neikrug\, Krzysztof Penderecki\, Bright Sheng\, Chen Yi\, and Du Yun. The Quartet had a particularly close relationship with Krzysztof Penderecki; they premiered his third quartet – Leaves From an Unwritten Diary – at the composer’s 75th birthday concert and repeated it again at both his 80th and 85th birthday celebrations. Forthcoming and recent commissions include new works from Judith Weir\, Tan Dun\, and Wang Lei\, in addition to a new work from Penderecki. \nThe Shanghai Quartet has an extensive discography of more than thirty recordings\, ranging from Schumann and Dvorak piano quintets with Rudolf Buchbinder to Zhou Long’s Poems from Tang for string quartet and orchestra with the Singapore Symphony. The Quartet has recorded the complete Beethoven string quartets and is currently recording the complete Bartók quartets. \nA diverse array of media projects run the gamut from a cameo appearance playing Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 in Woody Allen’s film Melinda and Melinda to PBS television’s Great Performances series. Violinist Weigang Li appeared in the documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China\, and the family of cellist Nicholas Tzavaras was the subject of the film Music of the Heart\, starring Meryl Streep. \nServing as Quartet-in-Residence at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University since 2002\, the Shanghai Quartet joined The Tianjin (China) Juilliard School in fall 2020 as resident faculty members. The Quartet also is the Ensemble-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and visiting guest professors of the Shanghai Conservatory and Central Conservatory in Beijing. They are proudly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld Strings and BAM Cases.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/shanghai-quartet/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T031909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155234Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-29-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T032017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155258Z
UID:24005-1785526200-1785531600@www.bowdoinfestival.org
SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/07-31-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260802T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260802T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T032419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155355Z
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SUMMARY:Frank Huang & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Frank Huang & Friends \nFeaturing violinist Frank Huang collaborating with Festival faculty. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nFrank Huang \nFrank Huang joined the New York Philharmonic as Concertmaster\, The Charles E. Culpeper Chair\, in September 2015. The First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition\, he has established a major career as a violin virtuoso. Since performing with the Houston Symphony in a nationally broadcast concert at the age of 11 he has appeared with orchestras throughout the world including The Cleveland Orchestra\, Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, Indianapolis Symphony\, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hannover\, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra\, and the Genoa Orchestra. He has also performed on NPR’s Performance Today\, ABC’s Good Morning America\, and CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn. He has performed at Wigmore Hall (in London)\, Salle Cortot (Paris)\, Kennedy Center (Washington\, DC)\, and Herbst Theatre (San Francisco)\, as well as a second recital in Alice Tully Hall (New York)\, which featured the World Premiere of Donald Martino’s Sonata for Solo Violin. Following more than 25 additional solo appearances with the Orchestra\, in May 2022 he performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5\, Turkish\, conducted by then Music Director Jaap van Zweden. \n\n\nHuang has had great success in competitions since the age of 15 and received top prizes in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. Other honors include Gold Medal Awards in the Kingsville\, Irving M. Klein\, and D’Angelo international competitions. His first commercial recording — featuring fantasies by Schubert\, Ernst\, Schoenberg\, and Waxman — was released on Naxos in 2003. \nIn addition to his solo career\, Frank Huang is deeply committed to chamber music. He is a member of the New York Philharmonic String Quartet\, established in the 2016–17 season\, and has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival\, Ravinia’s Steans Institute\, Seattle Chamber Music Festival\, and Caramoor. He frequently participates in Musicians from Marlboro’s tours\, and was selected by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be a member of the prestigious CMS Two program. Before joining the Houston Symphony as concertmaster in 2010\, he served as first violinist of the Grammy Award–winning Ying Quartet and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. \nFrank Huang was born in Beijing\, China. At the age of seven he moved to Houston\, Texas\, where he began violin lessons with his mother. He commenced study with Fredell Lack at the University of Houston and at 16 he enrolled in the pre-college program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) where he studied with Donald Weilerstein. He continued studies with Weilerstein in college and earned his bachelor of music degree from CIM in 2002. He subsequently attended The Juilliard School in New York City\, studying violin with Robert Mann. He is an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West. He served on the faculties of The Shepherd School of Music at Rice and the University of Houston\, and currently serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/frank-huang-friends/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Livestream,Sundays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T032707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155425Z
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SUMMARY:Jupiter String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Jupiter String Quartet \nProgramming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nJupiter String Quartet\nMélanie Clapiès\, Meg Freivogel\, violin • Liz Freivogel\, viola • Daniel McDonough\, cello \nThe Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group\, consisting of violinists Mélanie Clapiès and Meg Freivogel\, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister)\, and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband\, Liz’s brother-in-law). Founded in 2001\, the ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music\, and exudes an energy that is at once friendly\, knowledgeable\, and adventurous. The New Yorker states\, “The Jupiter String Quartet\, an ensemble of eloquent intensity\, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene.” \nThe quartet has performed across the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas in some of the world’s finest halls\, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Boston’s Jordan Hall\, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes\, Washington\, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress\, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace\, and Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall. Their major music festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival and School\, Bowdoin International Music Festival\, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival\, Rockport Music Festival\, the Banff Centre\, Taos School of Music Summer Festival\, Virginia Arts Festival\, Music at Menlo\, Maverick Concerts\, Caramoor International Music Festival\, Lanaudiere Festival\, West Cork (Ireland) Chamber Music Festival\, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival\, Skaneateles Festival\, Madeline Island Music Festival\, Yellow Barn Festival\, Encore Chamber Music Festival\, the inaugural Chamber Music Athens\, and the Seoul Spring Festival\, among others. \nTheir chamber music honors and awards include the grand prizes in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2004. In 2005\, they won the Young Concert Artists International auditions in New York City\, which quickly led to a busy touring schedule. They received the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America in 2007\, followed by an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008. From 2007-2010\, they were in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two and\, in 2009\, they received a grant from the Fromm Foundation to commission a new quartet from Dan Visconti for a CMSLC performance at Alice Tully Hall. In 2012\, the Jupiter Quartet members were appointed as artists-in-residence and faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, where they continue to perform regularly in the beautiful Krannert Center for the Performing Arts\, maintain private studios\, and direct the chamber music program. \nThe Jupiter String Quartet feels a strong connection to the core string quartet repertoire; they have presented the complete Bartok string quartets at the University of Illinois and the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets at the Aspen Music Festival and School\, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lanaudiere Festival in Quebec. Also deeply committed to new music\, they have commissioned string quartets from Nathan Shields\, Stephen Andrew Taylor\, Michi Wiancko\, Syd Hodkinson\, Hannah Lash\, Dan Visconti\, and Kati Agócs; a quintet with baritone voice by Mark Adamo; and a piano quintet by Pierre Jalbert. They are also part of a commission for chamber choir and string quartet\, with music by Su Lian Tan and words by Robin Wall Kimmerer. \nThe Jupiters place a strong emphasis on developing relationships with future audiences through educational performances in schools and other community centers. They believe that\, because of the intensity of its interplay and communication\, chamber music is one of the most effective ways of spreading an enthusiasm for “classical” music to new audiences. The quartet has also held numerous masterclasses for young musicians\, including most recently at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, Cleveland Institute of Music\, Northwestern University\, Eastman School of Music\, the Aspen Music Festival\, Encore Chamber Festival\, Madeline Island Music Festival\, and Peabody Conservatory. \nThe quartet’s latest album is a collaboration with the Jasper String Quartet (Marquis Classics\, 2021)\, produced by Grammy-winner Judith Sherman. This collaborative album features the world premiere recording of Dan Visconti’s Eternal Breath\, Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat\, Op. 20\, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round. The Arts Fuse acclaimed\, “This joint album from the Jupiter String Quartet and Jasper String Quartet is striking for its backstory but really memorable for its smart program and fine execution.” The quartet’s discography also includes numerous recordings on labels including Azica Records and Deutsche Grammophon. In fall 2024\, the Jupiter Quartet recorded their next album with Judith Sherman\, featuring the world premiere recordings of Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters\, Undreamed Shores\, Stephen Taylor’s Chaconne/Labyrinth\, and Kati Agócs’s Imprimatur\, which were all composed for the Jupiters. \nRecent and upcoming highlights include residencies at Taos School of Music Summer Festival\, San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, the Adam Chamber Music Festival in New Zealand\, and the University of Idaho\, as well as performances presented by the Library of Congress\, the University of Florida Performing Arts\, Bay Chamber Concerts\, Calgary Pro Musica\, San Antonio Chamber Music Society\, Buffalo Chamber Music Society\, and many more. As artists-in-residence at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana\, they also perform a series of concerts at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. \nThe quartet chose its name because Jupiter was the most prominent planet in the night sky at the time of its formation and the astrological symbol for Jupiter resembles the number four.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/jupiter-string-quartet-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Mondays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T033028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155452Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Concert
DESCRIPTION:Faculty Concert \nThis concert will feature Festival faculty artists. Programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/08-05-2026/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T095053
CREATED:20260130T033334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155537Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Nakamatsu Plays Rachmaninoff
DESCRIPTION:JON nakamatsu Plays Rachmaninoff \nThis concert will feature pianist Jon Nakamatsu playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 alongside maestro Peter Bay and the Festival Orchestra. Full programming to be announced this spring. \nBuy Season Pass\nA season pass includes tickets to all 20 subscription series concerts\, June 29 – August 7. Individual tickets and six and twelve-concert passes will be available later this spring. \n  \nJon Nakamatsu \nNow in his third decade of touring worldwide\, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw critical and public acclaim for his intensity\, elegance and electrifying solo\, concerto and chamber music performances. Catapulted to international attention in 1997 as the Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—the only American to achieve this distinction since 1981—Mr. Nakamatsu subsequently developed a multi-faceted career that encompasses recording\, education\, arts administration and public speaking in addition to his vast concert schedule. \nMr. Nakamatsu has been guest soloist with over 150 orchestras worldwide\, including those of Baltimore\, Berlin\, Boston\, Cincinnati\, Dallas\, Detroit\, Florence\, Los Angeles\, Milan\, San Francisco\, Seattle\, Tokyo and Vancouver. He has worked with such esteemed conductors as Marin Alsop\, Sergiu Comissiona\, James Conlon\, Philippe Entremont\, Hans Graf\, Marek Janowski\, Raymond Leppard\, Gerard Schwarz\, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski\, Michael Tilson Thomas and Osmo Vänskä. \nAs a recitalist\, Mr. Nakamatsu has appeared in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, the Musée d’Orsay and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and in major centers such as Boston\, Chicago\, Houston\, London\, Milan\, Munich\, Prague\, Singapore\, Tokyo\, Warsaw and Zurich. In Beijing he has been heard at the Theater of the Forbidden City\, the Great Hall of the People\, China Conservatory\, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts. His numerous summer engagements included appearances at the Aspen\, Tanglewood\, Ravinia\, Caramoor\, Vail\, Wolftrap\, Colorado\, Brevard\, Britt\, Colorado College\, Evian\, Interlochen\, Klavierfestival Ruhr\, Santa Fe and Sun Valley festivals\, and annual extended residency at the Bowdoin Festival in Maine. \nWith clarinetist Jon Manasse\, Mr. Nakamatsu tours as a member of the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. Following its Boston debut in 2004\, the Duo released its first CD for harmonia mundi usa (Brahms Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano) which received the highest praise from The New York Times Classical Music Editor James Oestreich\, who named it among the “Best of the Year” for 2008.  A frequent chamber musician\, Mr. Nakamatsu has collaborated repeatedly with ensembles such as the Emerson\, Escher\, Jupiter\, Miró\, Modigliani\, Prazak\, St. Lawrence\, Tokyo and Ying string quartets\, the Imani Winds and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet with whom he made multiple tours beginning in 2000. \nMr. Nakamatsu’s 13 CDs recorded for harmonia mundi usa have garnered extraordinary critical praise. An all-Gershwin recording with Jeff Tyzik and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F remained in the top echelons of Billboard’s classical charts for over six months. Other acclaimed discs include the recording premiere of Lukas Foss’ first Piano Concerto with Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony\, the Brahms Piano Quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet in the quartet’s final recording as an ensemble\, and a solo recording including Robert Schumann’s Second Piano Sonata whose YouTube posting has garnered over 600K hits. \nMr. Nakamatsu has been profiled extensively in print\, radio\, television and online. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning\, in Readers Digest magazine and recently on Live from Here! with Chris Thile. In 1999\, Mr. Nakamatsu performed at the White House at the special invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton. He has also performed for the United States Mayor’s Convention in San Francisco and in 2001 was the featured guest artist during the opening and dedication of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II in Washington DC. \nA former high school teacher of German with no formal conservatory training\, Mr. Nakamatsu studied privately with Marina Derryberry for over 20 years beginning at the age of six; worked with Karl Ulrich Schnabel since the age of 9; and trained for 10 years in composition\, theory and orchestration with Dr. Leonard Stein of the University of Southern California’s Schoenberg Institute. Mr. Nakamatsu holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University in German Studies and secondary education. In 2015\, he joined the piano faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and in 2023 the Department of Music at Stanford University. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife Kathy and young son Gavin.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/jon-nakamatsu-plays-rachmaninoff/
LOCATION:Crooker Theater\, 116 Maquoit Rd\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Fridays
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