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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

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

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

 

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.

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

 

 

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