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The tenth
biennial Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music
will be June 5th through the 18th, 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 |
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THE CONCERTS:
CONCERT
Smith Hokanson Hall on Vinalhaven Island
7:30 pm, Monday, June 13
CONCERT
Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast
7:30pm, Wednesday, June 15
CONCERT
Rockland Congregational Church, Rockland
7:30 pm, Thursday, June 16
CONCERT
Dunaway Community Center, Ogunquit
8pm, Friday, June 17
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OTHER EVENTS:
WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE
for school children from North Haven and Vinalhaven will
be held at the Vinalhaven School on Vinalhaven Island.
Tuesday, June 7
A COLLOQUIUM
with festival musicians and regional visual and performing
artists will be held at the Waterfall Arts Center in Belfast.
(no charge)
Wednesday, June 15, 3pm
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
Thursday, June 16
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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.
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OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Daniel S. Godfrey, President
4465 E. Genesee St., #181
DeWitt, NY 13214-2242
Professor and Composer-in-Residence
Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University
John Duffy, Honorary Vice President
23 Bayview Street
Camden, ME 04843-2201
Composer and Founding Director (Emeritus)
Meet The Composer, Inc.
Steven Stucky, Secretary
215 North Cayuga Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Given Foundation Professor of Composition
Cornell University
Nicolas Scherzinger, Treasurer
222 Kensington Place
Syracuse, NY 13210
Associate Professor
Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University
ISLAND COORDINATOR
Rev. Michelle Wiley
14 North haven Road
Vinalhaven, ME 04863
Music Teacher
Vinalhaven School
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