2021 Concerts at Eagle Hill

Date/Time	Day	Program title and description	Musicians. Bios are at the end of this page.

2021 Concerts

Aug 7, 5PM	Sat	Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) String quartet in E minor (1873) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) String Quartet No. 2 in D major (1881)	Anatole Wieck, violin. Sascha Zaburdaeva, violin. Ryu Mitsuhashi, viola. Joachim Woitun, cello.
Aug 14, 5PM	Sat	Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto for Viola D'Amore Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Fantasiestücke for Violin and Piano Op.73 Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) From the Homeland (Zdomoviny) (1880)	Anatole Wieck, violin/viola/viola d’amore. Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, piano.
Sep 11, 5PM	Sat	Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Selected Preludes from op 23 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Liszt Lieder (selections) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Ballade no 4	Liana Paniyeva, piano.
Sep 18, 5PM	Sat	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sonata IV Wolfgang A. Mozart (1766-1791) Violin Concerto in G Major Amy Beach (1867-1944) Op. 40, 1-3. For violin and piano Amy Beach (1867-1944) Romance for violin and piano	Sascha Zaburdaeva, violin. Gary Magby, piano.
Oct 23, 5PM	Sat	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021 for violin and harpsichord Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) Sonata No. 2 in D minor for violin and harpsichord Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) Taccato in D minor for harpsichor Suite XX in D Major Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Passacaglia for Solo Violin in G minor, "Guardian Angel" Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 for violin & Basso Continuo	Heidi Powell, baroque violin. Daniel Pyle, harpsichord.
Nov 6, 5PM	Sat	An Evening of Clavichord Music In Celebration of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, “The Orpheus of Amsterdam” (1562-1621) Featuring a new clavichord by Martin Kather (2020), after Michael Praetorius’ Syntagma Musica (1619)	Kevin Birch
Dec 11, 5PM	Sat	Concert Trio Gala end-of-year concert & Free dinner Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) Capriccio for Viola solo Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931) ) Introduction for Viola Solo Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) ) Sarabande for 2 Violas Beethoven (1770-1826) ) Adagio from a Trio Op. 87 Mozart (1756-1793) ) Duo for Violin & Viola in B-Flat Major, K 424 Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Terzetto for 2 violins & viola in C Op. 74	Pierre Henri Xuereb, Viola. Anatole Wieck, Violin and Viola. Ruixin Niu, Violin and Viola.

Musicians - Bios will be added as concerts are scheduled.

Birch Kevin Birch holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa with previous studies at New England Conservatory in Boston and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Since 1992 he has served as Director of Music at St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine, where he also serves as Executive Director of St. John’s Organ Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and stewardship of E. & G. G. Hook's Opus 288 built for St. John's in 1860. Kevin is a member of the music faculty at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts in Orono and serves on the Liturgical Commission for the Diocese of Portland. He has performed solo recitals in the US, Canada, Europe, and in South America, and for several national conventions of the Organ Historical Society. He is especially devoted to the many fine historic organs in Maine on which he enjoys frequent opportunities to study and perform. He is a member of the Netherlands Clavichord Society and the Boston Clavichord Society.

Born in Presque Isle, Maine in 1950, Gary Magby completed his musical studies at the Boston and New England Conservatories. In 1973 he accepted his first post as voice teacher at the Boston Conservatory/ Extension Division and in 1974 began a parallel career as co-repetiteur assuring musical preparation of productions for the Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Company of Boston, St.Louis Opera and the Washington Opera. Fellow in opera administration at the Juilliard American Opera Center beginning in 1977, he founded at the same time a private vocal studio in New York. In 1983 he became director of the Young Artists Program for the Chautauqua Opera where he was also Music Director between 1988 and 1993. From 1984 until 1988 he was director of the Young Artists Program for the Miami Opera Association. From 1993 to 2001 he was resident voice teacher for the Opéra National de Lyon and maintained a private studio in Paris. Beginning in 2001 he directed the opera department of the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, where from 2002 until 2013 he was professor of singing and chairman of the voice department. From 2009 until 2012 he has gave MasterClasses for the Staats Oper Graz and recently at the University Yonsei in Seoul as well as the HEMU/Lausanne. His students are presently singing in all of the world’s major opera houses : Met, San Francisco, Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, etc.

Born in Japan, Ryu Mitsuhashi began studying the violin at age 3. At age 9 she moved to New York, and was accepted at age 10 into the Pre-College division of The Juilliard School. Since then, Ryu has graduated with both a Bachelor’s Degree with a Minor in Jazz as well as a Master’s Degree from the University of Maine, where she retained her concertmaster position throughout her study. Her major teachers include Akiko Silver, Shirley Givens, Angela Eto and Anatole Wieck. Ryu is an assistant principal 2nd violinist in Bangor Symphony Orchestra, is a fiddle player for the folk fusion band Tough End String Band , and plays in summer music festivals and pit orchestras for musicals all over the northeast. Ryu is no stranger to international performances as well. She periodically returns to Japan for performances, and has traveled to perform and tour with international orchestras and concert tour groups, including Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra in Croatia, Camerata Austriaca in Austria and Orchestra for the Festival Vaniloquio in Mexico. And from this fall, she will be traveling and performing with the National Broadway Tour of Hamilton An American Musical!

Hailed by the New York Concert Review as " a sensitive player ", Liana Paniyeva has won prizes in numerous competitions internationally and has performed at festivals in Norway, Hungary, Austria, Canada, England, Italy, South Africa, and Israel. Her recitals have taken her to Carnegie Hall, legendary Worcester's Mechanics Hall, the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, to note highlights. Ms. Paniyeva has been a prizewinner in numerous international competitions including: Iowa International Piano Competition in 2015, George Gershwin International Competition in 2019, Grand Prize at the Metropolitan International Piano Competition, Music World in Italy, the Cargill Foundation Prize in the 2014 Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow. Liana was a semifinalist at the New Orleans International Piano Competition and San Antonio International Piano Competition. Her solo recital in 2016 at the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago was broadcast live on WFMT Radio. Reviewing her recording, Huntley Dent of Fanfare Magazine praised her version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition as outshining many others in the catalog, including those by famous names. A graduate of the Donetsk Music Academy in Ukraine, Ms. Paniyeva earned her Professional Studies Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music and an Artist Diploma from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Liana is a winner of the American Prize 2021. Ms. Paniyeva is a founder and artistic director of the Young Stars International Piano Competition

Heidi Powell is a baroque violin specialist and has appeared as soloist with the New York Collegium, Rebel, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Early Music New York, New York State Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Washington Bach Consort. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Indiana University and an Artist Diploma in Violin from Oberlin Conservatory. Heidi's prize winning performance in the American Bach Soloists International Bach Violin Competition was heralded by the New York Times as 'supremely confident and powerful'. Heidi has taught violin and chamber music at Oberlin Conservatory, Kneisel Hall, Creative Spark and George Stevens Academy. She is a Suzuki violin teaching specialist and teaches privately in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. She is the founder and director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine. Heidi lives in Town Hill, Bar Harbor with her fiance, Ryuta Ishimura, scientist at Jackson Laboratory, his three children Taki (20), Ayano (18) & Mai (14) and her son Daniel (7). When not performing or teaching, Heidi enjoys laughing, doing anything creative, exploring nature, swimming, yoga and hiking, and cooking elaborate, organic meals for her family.

Heidi Powell Dr. Daniel S. Pyle directs the Acadia Choral Society and Harmonie Universelle, a Baroque ensemble that has recorded and toured in the US and Europe. In 2018, he conducted Handel’s Messiah for the Blue Hill Bach Festival. He has performed with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the faculties of the University of Kansas, Louisiana State University, and Clayton State University where he taught organ, harpsichord, and music history. He also taught Master classes in Atlanta and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. He is the organist and Music Director for St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor. Dr. Pyle has forty-five years of experience as a church musician in Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist congregations, and has been an instructor in church music at the Candler School of Theology. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music from the University of Alabama and a Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He has also trained at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and with Kenneth Gilbert at the Accademia Musical Chigiana.

Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, pianist, has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Peru and Mexico. As a winner of Artists International Young Musicians Auditions, she was presented in two solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. Of her debut, The New York Times review called her “a thoughtful musician; her playing was full of intelligence and poetry … a pianist well worth hearing.” Ms. Rodríguez Peralta has performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, and in the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago and Los Angeles. She has also given recitals throughout Peru, under the auspices of the American Embassy. As a chamber musician, she frequently performs with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her recordings include Teresa Carreño: Solo Piano and Chamber Works and her collaboration with cellist Luis Leguía, recorded at Symphony Hall in Boston, in Music for Cello and Piano from South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. She is also featured on Just in Time, Here and Now, a recording devoted to new music. Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta holds a Bachelor of Music from Temple University, a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America and a Post-Graduate Diploma from The Juilliard School. Her teachers include Maryan Filar, Ney Salgado and Beveridge Webster. While at Juilliard she was the teaching assistant of American composer Vincent Persichetti. She is currently the Chair of the Music Department of Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA and Director of A World of Music Concert Series.

Ruixin Niu holds a Master’s degree in viola from the Beijing Central Conservatory. Invited to the Franco-American Academy of Fontainebleau in July 2018; and in March 2018, to participate in the Opera project of the "Seiji Ozawa Music Academy" in Japan. Trainee with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège for the year 2019-20. In June 2020, she received a Master's in pedagogy with great distinction from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Liège. She is a ember of the "Primrose Ensemble". She is a teaching assistant at the University of Maine where she is enrolled in an interdisciplinary PhD since September 2021. Her second passion is photography.

Born in Latvia, Anatole Wieck received his first musical education in Riga and Moscow. In the United States since 1973, he studied violin and viola at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where he completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts working closely with Ivan Galamian, Lillian Fuchs, and Paul Doktor. He also studied baroque interpretation with Carol Lieberman at Boston University. He plays baroque viola, viola d’amore and baroque violin. Since 1986 Dr. Wieck has taught upper strings at the University of Maine and conducted the University of Maine Orchestra. He has performed and conducted in Europe, North and South America, and has participated in chamber music festivals such as Chamber Music/West (San Francisco), White Nights (St. Petersburg, Russia) and festivals in Montepulciano, Italy and Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Wieck also performed for Baroque Chamber Music festivals in Spain. In May, 2006 he traveled to Guatemala as a Fulbright Senior Specialist where he conducted the Juventud y Música Foundation orchestra, gave master classes to students and faculty of the Guatemala National Conservatory. As a member of the Ad Libitum Ensemble that specializes in Baroque music, Dr. Wieck toured Israel in December 2007. In April 2008 Dr. Wieck performed at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY City. Between 2009 and 2012 he traveled five times to Mexico to teach, perform, and conduct. Dr. Wieck collaborated with Artes Revueltas. In the spring of 2013 Dr. Wieck performed and taught in Japan as a soloist and chamber musician. He performs regularly with the Baroque Orchestra of Maine and is director of the String Program at Maine Summer Youth Music at the University of Maine. In 2010 Dr. Wieck co-founded the Chamber Music Institute (CMI) with his Juilliard classmate Akiko Hirose-Silver.

Joachim Woitun studied cello at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium and the Hochschule fuer Musik in Munich, Germany. He moved to the United States in 1987 to continue his studies with Michael Flaksman at California State University in Fresno. Mr. Woitun earned his MA degree from City University of New York while studying cello with Stephen Kates and Barbara Mallow-Stein; baroque performance practice with Ray Erickson and Fred Hauptman; chamber music with Daniel Phillips; and contemporary music with Ronald Roseman. He has also been featured in masterclasses taught by William Pleeth, Leslie Parnas and Sharon Robinson. Mr. Woitun's performance credits include being a soloist with the Orchester Kurt Graunke in Munich and the Spokane Symphony Orchestra in Washington State. He has premiered works by Ronald Roseman, Jennifer Griffith and Carmen Braden. As a recitalist, he can be heard regularly in the greater metropolitan area of New York City and in Downeast Maine, where he has performed at Bay Chamber Concerts in Machias, at Summerkeys in Lubec and at Fog Fest as part of the Roosevelt Estate on Campobello Island. Mr. Woitun teaches at the Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, as well as at the United Nations International School in Manhattan. In addition to maintaining an active private studio in Brooklyn, New York, he has been on the faculty of Summerkeys in Lubec, Maine since 2006.

Pierre Henri Xuereb is artistic director of the Fête de l’alto in Lasalle en Cevennes, and teaches viola in the CNSM in Paris, Conservatoire Royal de musique de Liège, and the CRD in Gennevilliers. He has performed as a soloist with the Ensemble Instrumental de France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Alternance, and more. Additionally, his international career has brought him to many concert halls throughout the world, such as: Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Teatro La Scala (Milano), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), and Luzern Festival. He has given numerous world premieres from composers such as K. Stockhausen, Klaus Huber, Philippe Hersant, and Jean Michel Damase. He is regularly invited to giveinternational master classes in: Beijing, Kyoto, Gwangju (Korea), Tignes (MusicAlp), Les Arcs, Fontainebleau, Close Encounters (Berkshires, USA), Novisad, Malta, and Domaine Forget (Canada).

Sascha Zaburdaeva-Lorimer Sascha Zaburdaeva Lorimer is a Russian born musician whose heart belongs to America. Mrs. Lorimer has become a prominent performer and conductor throughout Maine. She conducts the Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras, sits first violin in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, holds the concertmaster position in the Colby College Symphony, and regularly performs chamber music and is a veteran teacher of violin/viola at RDL Strings in Bangor. Mrs Lorimer got her first bachelor’s degree in violin performance, teaching, and orchestral playing from one of Russia’s most prestigious music schools, the Gnesin’s College of Music in Moscow. Following her heart, she continued her music adventures in New York where she studied under Masao Kawasaki and Itzhak Perlman. After getting a second bachelor’s degree in violin performance Sascha moved to Maine to finish her graduate studies with Anatole Wieck. She immediately applied her passion to music here in Maine, co-founding the MSYM summer string program at the University of Maine with Dr. Wieck. Finding mentorship and support, she conducts the MSYM string orchestra and works energetically to assure that music plays a vital role in securing a peaceful and bright future for our children. Mrs, Lorimer resides in Bangor, the best place on earth, with her husband Robert Lorimer, owner of RDL Strings/Fine Violins.