Concerts at Eagle Hill - 2025

Eagle Hill hosts occasional chamber concerts by highly accomplished musicians who travel the world sharing their passion for music.

Concerts run for about an 1:15 to 1:30 hours, including a brief intermission. Start times for concerts are noted in the calendar below. Concert events begin with a reception 45 minutes before the start of each concert. This is a pleasant time to discreetly mingle with guests over complimentary juice, iced tea, or wine.

Concert tickets:
Regular ... $25
Friends of Music members and college and university students ... $20
Children under 18 ... Free if accompanied by their parents or grandparents who are not guests of others.

Special member benefit ... Members may each invite, at no cost, one friend who has not previously been to a concert at Eagle Hill. In addition, if the member is having dinner, their friend can join them at no cost.

Optional dinner afterwards ... Each concert is followed by an optional dinner for guests who enjoy an extended evening at Eagle Hill with friends in the company of the musicians. Dinners are normally $40, $35 for Friends of Music members and college students, and $20 for children under 18. Dinners include a salad, baguette, choice of 1 of 2 entrées, dessert, and coffee/tea. Wine with dinner is optional. Reservations need to be made by 10AM of the program day.

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2025 - Pending concerts are inserted as they are scheduled. Completed concerts are at end of calendar. Bios are at end of page. Links to past years are at end of calendar.
Dates/Times	Days	Program titles and descriptions	Optional dinners

Mar 28th, 5PM	Fri	Jazz concert Dan Barrett, trombone. Scott Cleveland, piano. Kyle Jordan, saxopone. With all original music by the musicians	Cannellini bean dip with caramelized onion Green house salad. Balsamic herb dressing Baguette with butter Mediterranean shrimp with fresh herbs, garlic, mushrooms, red peppers, baby tomatoes Vegan option: Mediterranean stew with mushrooms, red peppers, baby tomatoes, and sesame-crisped tofu Penne pasta with gluten-free option Butternut squash Dessert: Rhubarb and apple puff pastry with whipped cream. Also as GF compote

Apr 9th, 5PM	Wed	Chinese Pentatonic Music Ruixin Niu, viola. Simon Debierre, Guquin What is pentatonic music?	TBA

Apr 12th, 5PM	Sat	Cello and piano Timothy Garrett, cello. Amy Irish, piano.	TBA

Apr 26th, 5PM	Sat	Four-handed Piano Recital Danny Holt and Michael Coonrod	TBA

May 3rd, 5PM	Sat	Piano Recital Deiran Manning	TBA

May 17th, 5PM	Sat	The 45th Parallel Chris Nemeth, violin. Laura Gallucci, viola. Timothy Garrett, cello.	TBA

May 31st, 5PM	Sat	Violin and piano concert Sascha Zaburdaeva, violin. Amy Irish, piano.	TBA

Jun 7th, 5PM	Sat	Piano Recital Danny Holt This program highlights the delightfully creative ways composers borrow from one another, including Godowsky’s inventive and virtuosic re-working of Chopin etudes, Heller’s transcription of Schubert’s beloved Erlkönig, Crumb’s dream-like meditation on Chopin, Satie’s playful parody of Clementi, and more.	TBA

Jun 13th, 5PM	Fri	Harpsichord and Violin Concert Mark Kroll, harpsichord. Carol Lieberman, violin. Lecture on harpsichords, June 12th	TBA

Aug 23rd, 5PM	Sat	Voice and viol concert Musick's Recreation Ashley Mulcahey, mezzo-soprano. James Perretta, viol Lyracle	TBA

Aug 30th, 5PM	Sat	An evening of music, storytelling, folklore, and history Gordon Thomas Ward	TBA

Oct 4th, 5PM	Sat	Piano and Cello Concert Phillip Silver, piano. Noreen Silver, cello. Works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn	TBA

2025 concerts that took place

Jan 18th, 4PM	Sat	Baroque Orchestra of Maine Heidi Powell, baroque violin. Max Treitler, baroque cello. • Concerto No. 7 in C Major, ‘La Stravaganza’ … Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) • Sonata in G minor, HWV 364 … George Frederich Handel (1685-1759) • Sonata in D Major, Op. 5 No. 1 … Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1731) • Sonata No. 2 in D Minor … Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) • ‘Autumn’ from The Four Seasons … Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) BOOM website	Green house salad Baguette with butter Entrées: Chicken in a paprika light cream onion sauce ... or ... Three beans with tofu and mixed vegetables in a paprika light cream onion sauce Sweet potato wedges Basmati rice Dessert: Black Forest chocolate cherry cake with whipped cream Coffee or tea

Feb 21st, 4PM	Fri	Jazz concert in celebration of Lawrence Schuster, a concert regular Dan Barrett, trombone. Scott Cleveland, piano. Isaac Atkinson, bass. Kyle Agbuya, drums.	Caesar salad Baguette with herbed butter Lebanese pomegranate dip with roasted peppers and walnuts Salmon with portobello mushroom cream sauce Peas Layered potatoes Dauphinoise Vegetarian - Ratatouille with eggplant, zucchini and mixed peppers over falafel Dessert: Pineapple sponge cake Coffee or tea

Feb 28th, 4PM	Fri	DaPonte String Quartet Kirsten Monke, viola. Lydia Forbes, violin. Myles Jordan, cello. Philipp Elssner, violin This program begins with Haydn’s Quartet in D, Op. 20, no 4 and concludes with Erich Korngold’s String Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 26 no 2. DaPonte website	Lebanese whipped feta cheese dip with beets, pistachios, and honey House salad with lemon vinaigrette Baguette with herbed butter Chicken breast or walnut burger with a sun dried tomato and parmesaned cream sauce with fresh basil Roasted carrots and parsnips Basmati rice Dessert: Rhubard crisp with whipped cream Coffee or a selection of teas

Mar 15th, 4PM	Sat	Baroque Orchestra of Maine Heidi Powell and Sylvia Schwartz, baroque violins. Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, baroque harp BOOM website	Hummus dip with roasted red peppers Green mixed house salad with honey lemon dressing Baguette with butter Entrées: Roasted pork tenderloin medallions ... or ... Carrot, cheddar, barley, mushroom loaf ... Both with mushroom gravy Herbed roasted red potatoes Creamed spinach with onions Dessert: Black Forest blueberry cake with whipped cream Selection of coffees or teas

Past concert seasons ... 2024 ... 2023 ... 2022 ... 2021 ... 2020 ... 2019 ... 2018

Musicians - Bios are added as concerts are scheduled.

Agbuya Kyle Agbuya is a talented young percussionist from Belfast, Maine who demonstrates exceptional skill and creativity on all percussion instruments. Since his freshman year, he has been a drummer in the UMaine Jazz Ensemble, where his unique sound and rhythm have captivated audiences. In addition to his college accomplishments, Kyle is an active performer with several local bands, bringing his signature style to diverse musical projects. His sound is deeply influenced by the tidal patterns of his hometown of Belfast, infusing his music with a natural ebb and flow that reflects his connection to the sea. Kyle is the winner of the 2025 UMaine Symphonic Band Solo Competition and will be featured this spring in several solo performances throughout Maine.

Isaac Atkinson hails from near Machias, Maine, and has been playing bass guitar for twelve out of his nearly twenty-two years of life. He is influenced largely by progressive rock and metal like Dream Theater, Rush, and King Crimson, jazz fusion sounds from Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Chick Corea, and Stanley Clarke, and funk and R&B influence from a range of artists including Stevie Wonder, Vulfpeck, and Primus. It may then seem strange (or perhaps entirely intuitive) that Isaac is a senior in the jazz studies program at the University of Maine, where he has played in both big bands, several combos, and even the brass ensemble. He also holds the positions of bass player, sometimes singer, and frequent arranger for his band the Free Parking Band.

Barrett Dr. Dan Barrett teaches trombone, jazz courses, and coordinates the Jazz Studies program at the University of Maine, including directing the two university big bands. He has been privileged to perform with great jazz musicians like Bob Mintzer, Conrad Herwig, Andy Martin, John Fedchock, Thomas Gansch, Ingrid Jensen, Phil Markowitz, Eric Marienthal, and Byron Stripling, and was a national finalist in the Music Teachers National Association Brass Solo and Chamber Music competitions. Dr. Barrett performs often with the UMaine Faculty Jazz ensemble, and recorded the video album Putting a Groove on a Bad Situation with them in early 2021 (available on YouTube). He also performs with Swingmatism, Deb’s Little Big Band, and several other local groups. He leads the Maine Trombone Collective and the Maine Brass Guild, two large ensembles that perform throughout the state, and also teaches at the Maine Summer Youth Music camp. Dr. Barrett is the author of Solo Training for Trombone, a book of exercises based on standard solo repertoire for high school and college students, published by Mountain Peak Music.

Scott Cleveland Scott Cleveland is a composer/singer/pianist/music educator/church musician/writer. He holds a B.M. in Music Education from Berklee College of Music, an M.M. in Music Theory/Composition from UMassLowell and a M.Div. from Boston University School of Theology. He has produced six independent solo albums: scottcleveland.bandcamp.com, and performs original and reinterpreted Jazz/ R&B/ Blues/ Fusion/Rock as a solo pianist and singer and in numerous ensembles, including The University of Maine Jazz Faculty ensemble.He is on the Jazz Faculty at the University of Maine, teaching Elementary Harmony I and II, Jazz Theory Fundamentals, Jazz improvisation privately and coaching Jazz combos. He teaches songwriting and the improv clinic “Composing in Fast Motion” at Bagaduce Music. Subscribe to Scott’s blog “A Spacious Place: music/poetry/theology” and his podcast “Theory Geeks” on scottcleveland.substack.com.

Conrood Dr. Michael Coonrod is a retired piano faculty member from the Interlochen Center for the Arts where he tutored classical piano students for 46 years. During that time, he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. He has had an extensive performing and teaching career in several countries. He performed 20th Century piano music at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw Poland and participated in the Amalfi Music Festival in Maiori, Italy for five summers. He gave several master classes at the FaceArt Piano School in Shanghai China. He has five compact disc recordings to his credit–two of which are devoted to the music of Franz Schubert. Visit his website at: michaelcoonrod.com In his free time he is building a diorama of his home town of Missoula, Montana with an HO scale train layout.

DaPonte Formed in Philadelphia in 1991, the members of the DaPonte String Quartet made the move to Maine in 1996 on a Rural Residency Grant from Chamber Music America, and they have been here ever since. Maine is where they have chosen to put down roots. In their 34 years of existence, they have played all over our state, as well as in many other states and Europe. The DSQ is based in Freeport, but travels throughout Maine for performances and workshops. The full bio of the DaPonte String Quartet can be found at www.dapontequartet.org.

Simon Debierre is a temporary teaching and research associate at Artois University and a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE-PSL) under the supervision of Prof. Rainier Lanselle. Laureate of the 2020 Graduate Program in Historical Sciences at PSL Research University (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres), his dissertation focuses on the “Scripture and practice of literati music in late imperial China: the example of the Wuzhi zhai 五知齋 manual (ca. 1724) for qin 琴 zither” In 2019, he co-organized the “Festival des sept cordes” dedicated to the qin zither that took the form of a set of workshops and concerts at the auditoriums of both the National Museum of Asian Art (Musée Guimet) and National Institute of Art History (INHA), as well as the Richelieu amphitheater at la Sorbonne. From 2016 to 2021, he was an honorary council member (mingyu lishi 名誉理事) of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society (Zhongguo mingzu guanxianyue xuehui 中国民族管弦乐学会), alias the Chinese Qin Society (Zhongguo qinhui 中国琴会), the national reference scholarly association dedicated to the transmission and appreciation of the qin zither.

Phoebe Durand-McDonnell grew up on Mount Desert Island on the coast of Maine and began studying harp at age 10 with Liza Rey Butler, and later attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. At age 17, Phoebe received a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award Scholarship and was featured on the popular radio show From The Top. Phoebe earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory, majoring in harp with acclaimed soloist Yolanda Kondonassis. She attended Hudební Lahůdky in the Czech Republic to study baroque harp and improvisation with historical harpist Dr. Maria Cleary. Phoebe received a 2019 Fulbright Research grant to study with Dr. Cleary at the Haute École de Musique Genève (HEM) in Geneva, Switzerland. Phoebe received her first MA in interprétation spécialisée, pratique sde instruments historiques in 2021 from HEM, with intensive study on medieval and renaissance single- and double-rowed harps, Spanish arpa de dos ordenes, baroque arpa doppia, and the harpe organisée, or single-action pedal harp. In the fall of 2022, Phoebe began an MA in musicology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Laura Gallucci teaches 50 students at Laura Gallucci String Studio in Bangor. She is Principal viola of the Bangor Symphony, and freelances with a variety of top level groups in Maine. She is co-founder of the hard folk band, St. Huckleberry, in which she has played electric viola, violin, fiddle, bass and piano. She and her husband, singer / songwriter Michael Gallucci have co-written and recorded more than 100 original pieces of music. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where she studied with violist James Dunham of the Cleveland Quartet.

Garrett Solo, chamber, and orchestral cellist Timothy Garrett's eclectic career has taken him from Carnegie Hall to outdoor rock festivals, little jazz clubs, recording studios, theaters & countless other concert venues. He has been faculty or otherwise participated at the Bowdoin international music festival, the Bar Harbor music festival, the Winter Harbor music festival, the Pierre Monteaux school and the Medomak conductor's retreat to name a few. Mr. Garrett has collaborated with such notable musicians and Grammy award winning groups as Mannheim Steamroller, Ray Lamontagne, Rustic Overtones, Rachel Barton Pine & various members of professional orchestras and chamber groups from across the world. Mr. Garrett has taught at the Portland Conservatory of Music, the Maine Coast Waldorf school and since 2009 at RDL strings in Bangor, Maine. He has been a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years and also maintains an active freelance & private studio schedule. Other activities enjoyed are running a chess club, coaching cello groups and learning about history, politics, philosophy, and gardening.

Called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich, and hailed as one of the “local heroes” of the Los Angeles music scene (LAcitybeat.com), pianist Danny Holt performs around the globe in concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl), clubs (Joe’s Pub, The Blue Whale, Copenhagen Jazzhouse) art galleries (MASS MoCA, Hammer Museum), churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen. His recorded catalog includes the recent solo album “Piano Music of Mike Garson” and other solo, chamber, and orchestral releases on the Innova Recordings label, pfMENTUM, New World Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Acis Productions, and L’st records. After spending most of the past two decades in Southern California, Holt recently relocated to East Machias, where he enjoys being surrounded by natural beauty and the many joys of small town life in Downeast Maine. www.dannyholt.net

Irish Amy Irish, NCTM, holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Maine at Orono, a Post Graduate Certificate in Piano Performance from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland and a Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has run a successful private studio out of her Bangor home for over 15 years and has studio alumni who have gone on to pursue music in college and beyond. Her collegiate teaching includes class piano and applied piano at the University of Maine at Farmington and a piano pedagogy course at UMaine. Amy regularly accompanies for soloists and choirs around the state of Maine, including solo and studio recitals, competitions, MMEA & ACDA festivals, the All State Mixed Chorus, and Maine Summer Youth Music Camp. She also performs regularly with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. She is an active member of, and is nationally certified through, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA); currently serving as President of the State affiliate, Maine Music Teachers Association (MaineMTA) and President of the local Penobscot Valley Music Teachers Association.

Originally from Philadelphia, composer and saxophonist Kyle Jordan studied at the University of Maine, and now performs with various jazz groups throughout New England. His jazz compositions are bluesy and influenced by hard-bop musicians like Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver. He can often be heard playing with Maine Street R&B Revue, Twisted Swing, The Bangor Band, and other ensembles.

Lieberman and Kroll Carol Lieberman, one of America’s leading exponents of Baroque violin performance, is equally acclaimed for her command of the violin repertoire from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. She has performed and recorded music by Bach, Biber and Schubert to Messiaen and Carter throughout North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and is Professor emerita at College of the Holy Cross, where she also served as the Director of the Holy Cross Chamber Players. Mark Kroll enjoys a distinguished career as a performer, scholar and educator. He has appeared worldwide in recital and as concerto soloist, served as harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony for thirty years, and made numerous recordings, including Dutilleux’s Les Citations with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the complete pièces de clavecin of François Couperin. Kroll has published eight books and is Professor emeritus at Boston University, where he founded the Departments of Harpsichord and Historical Performance. Lieberman and Kroll celebrate the fifty-fifth anniversary as a duo this year, and continue to teach and perform throughout the world.

Lyracle Lyracle is a historical music ensemble whose mission is to illuminate our shared humanity by engaging with history through music. We use musical performance as a vehicle to tell the stories of people throughout history around the world who partook in music for voice and the viol. Co-Artistic Director Ashley Mulcahy is a mezzo-soprano active as a solo and ensemble singer. Ashley has performed with a wide range of early music ensembles, including Bach Collegium Japan, Boston Early Music Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, Newberry Consort, Parthenia Viol Consort, Blue Hill Bach Festival, New York State Baroque, Pegasus Early Music, and Upper Valley Baroque. Ashley is particularly interested in opportunities that combine her interests in the arts and humanities, and she enjoys writing for Early Music America on a freelance basis. . ashleymulcahy.com. Co-Artistic Director James Perretta is a Boston-based viola da gambist who is active as a performer, arranger, and teacher. In addition to having performed with groups such as The Boston Camerata and Nota Bene, James is passionate about cross-genre collaborations and has twice participated in and performed at the Silkroad ensemble’s Global Musicians Workshop. As a teacher, James maintains a private studio at Powers Music School and has taught classes on improvisation and on arranging madrigals to accompany a solo voice at the Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave.

Manning Deiran Manning has given performances across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Italy at notable venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the New York City Mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. Originally a Maine native, Mr. Manning spent his formative years in New York City attending LaGuardia High School and eventually earning his undergraduate and masters degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. His notable teachers include pianists Edmund Battersby, Edward Auer, Karen Shaw, Jeffrey Swann and baritone Wolfgang Brendel. As a collaborative player, Mr. Manning has performed with notable musicians including flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Anatole Wieck, and baritones Stephen Bryant and Wolfgang Brendel. Mr. Manning has also been on faculty at New York University, The University of Maine and Brooklyn Conservatory where he taught group keyboard, performance classes, theory and private lessons. Notable awards include; Stanza Governor’s Prize in Composition, LISSMA International Piano Competition, Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition and the Ira Gershwin award. In 2020 and 2021, Mr. Manning received grants from the Maine Arts Council to recording iconic keyboard works. In addition to several others, his recordings of the Diabelli and Goldberg Variations are available digitally on spotify, apple music and other streaming platforms. Mr. Manning is currently on the faculty at Husson University and serves as Executive Director of the Winter Harbor Music Festival.

Nemeth Chris Nemeth is a (sometimes) violinist. He has performed throughout United States, Latin America, Europe, and Canada, has participated in numerous festivals including the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival (Blue Hill, Maine), the Ravinia Festival (Chicago, IL), and the International Youth and Music Festival (Vienna, Austria), and has been heard on Missouri Public Radio, WFMT (Chicago), and National Public Radio. He recently relocated from Chicago to Sedgwick, ME with his wife (Tara), 2 girls (Marie, Vivi), and their dog (Zola). Since moving to Maine, Chris has been performing with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, The Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM), the 45th PARALLEL ensemble, the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony, as well as a cadre of local artist (Max Treitler, Heidi Powell, Trond Saverud, Marisa Solomon, Paul Sullivan, Tim Garrett, Laura Gallucci, Lucas Richman, and Bob Hipkins). In addition to playing the violin, Chris is a founding partner of HarborHouse Partners, a business advisory firm focused on helping Maine-based companies. He’s a big fan of cooking, tennis, English Premier League soccer, and Nordic noir crime dramas … particularly in the middle of the long, dark Maine winter.

Powell 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 the downeast area. She is the founder and director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine. When she is not organizing concerts, performing and teaching, Heidi is spending time with her son as well as exploring & enjoying nature, hiking, swimming, cooking organic foods and doing anything creative.

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.

Schwartz Niu Fascinated and deeply inspired by the relationship between music, movement, and dance, violinist and Dalcrozian-in-training Sylvia Schwartz is a passionate chamber musician in both modern and historical performance practices. A native of Boston, MA, Sylvia performs currently with Guts Baroque Duo, L’Esprit Baroque, Los Angeles Baroque, and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. She has also played with UCLA Early Music Ensemble, Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Amherst Baroque Academy Opera & Festival Orchestras, the folk/baroque band Lizzie and the Flakjackets, and the prog/alt rock bands The Mood Swings and The Fixtures. As a chamber and orchestral musician she has performed across the United States and Europe, including Shostakovich Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the major halls of Boston. She has performed recitals extensively in the Boston area. She has also been a member of the Harvard Summer Chorus, Chorus pro Musica, and The Masterworks Chorale, and sees in her students as well as herself the great benefit singing has for string players.

Noreen and Phillip Silver bring a wealth of performing experience to their highly regarded partnership. They have an enviable international reputation for chamber music playing of the highest caliber. The Duo, founded when Noreen and Phillip were students at the New England Conservatory of Music, has received accolades and acclaim from appreciative audiences and critics throughout Europe, Israel, the United States, Scandinavia, and the Czech Republic. Noreen’s professional experience includes several years in Seattle’s Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Boston Opera, London’s BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She is now principal cellist of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra (USA), and has appeared as soloist with the orchestra on several occasions. Phillip has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London, the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Israel Museum and Henry Crown Theater in Jerusalem.

Max Treitler's musical life was shaped almost entirely by time spent in this area. Over the course of seven summers spent at Kneisel Hall, he was the grateful student of George Sopkin and Barbara Stein Mallow as well as receiving chamber music instruction from Seymour Lipkin and Artur Balsam. After a prolonged and painful series of years spent in the wilds of New York's freelance jungle, he finally saw wisdom, and returned to the Blue Hill Peninsula, where he now happily messes about in the areas of overlap between wine, food and music.

Gordon Thomas Ward is an award-winning, multifaceted artist who’s been wowing audiences with his adult alternative/folk rock songs. Heavily influenced by his rural roots, Gordon is one of those rare artists whose multi-instrumental talents, vivid lyrics, mesmerizing stories, and distinctly personal vocal timbre makes one question whether singer-songwriter is an adequate description. His compositions do not follow the usual songwriter patterns, which, together with his other reserves, allows him to create compelling performances and albums. With four GRAMMY-balloted albums in the last six years, he’s worked with notable musicians such as Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul, and Mary), Eric Troyer and Mik Kaminski (Electric Light Orchestra), and Kevin Barry (Jackson Browne, James Taylor). Gordon’s songs are crafted and delivered in the style of Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, and acoustic Neil Young. Skope Magazine says Gordon is “setting the gold standard for singer-songwriters for generations to come.”

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.