Seal Bay Festival

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the 2011 festival

The tenth biennial Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music postponed until June 2011
The festival’s goal is to make American chamber music a living experience for concert audiences, artists and school children in a geographical and cultural setting (the year-round population of coastal Maine) otherwise little served by exposure to contemporary music. All repertoire is prepared rigorously in collaboration between composers and per-formers in an intense but idyllic setting during the first week of the festival, and the same repertoire is performed (and recorded) at every concert. Further, every venue is designed to make the public’s encounter with composers and performers as relaxed and personal as possible, while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in performance.
LIST OF EVENTS
	THE CONCERTS: CONCERT Smith Hokanson Hall on Vinalhaven Island T.B.A. CONCERT University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast T.B.A. CONCERT Farnsworth Museum Auditorium in Rockland T.B.A. CONCERT Gallery Barn in Ogunquit, sponsored by Ogunquit Performing Arts T.B.A.
OTHER EVENTS: WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE for school children from North Haven and Vinalhaven will be held at the Vinalhaven School on Vinalhaven Island. T.B.A. A COLLOQUIUM with festival musicians and regional visual and performing artists will be held at the Waterfall Arts Center in Belfast. (no charge) T.B.A. ON THE RADIO An interview/performance hour on Maine Public Radio’s “Live at Eleven” series, featuring discussion with composers and performers, along with performed ex-cerpts T.B.A.

The 2011 Program and Participants Four American composers have been invited to the Seal Bay Festival for June 2011: Gabriela Lena Frank (San Francisco, CA) Laura Kaminsky (New York, NY) Anna Weesner (New York, NY) Samuel Zyman (New York, NY) Performers will include: Cassatt String Quartet (New York, NY) pianist Adrienne Kim (Syracuse, NY). Composers and performers will be in residence at the festival’s home base on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. Biographical information will be released at a future date. An official press release will also be released at a future date.



The Seal Bay Festival—P.O. Box 824, Vinalhaven, Maine 04863, (207) 863-2230 staff@sealbayfestival.org