Concerts at Eagle Hill - 2026

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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2026 - 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 afternoon cafe or dinners

Jan 17th 4PM	Sat	Baroque Orchestra of Maine Heidi Powell, Baroque violin Max Treitler, Baroque cello Works by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Nicola Matteis (1650-1714) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)	Green house salad Baguette with butter Entrées: Chicken in a light cream tarragon sauce ... or ... savory chickpea medallions in a light cream tarragon sauce Sweet potato wedges Basmati rice Dessert: Florida rum cake Coffee or tea

Mar 21st 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Deiran Manning Bach’s 6th French suite Mozart’s sonata K457 Mozart’s sonata k 310 Chopin’s 3rd ballade	Green house salad with balsamic vinaigrette Baguette or sourdough bread with butter Entrée: Beef stew with winter root vegetables Vegan: Kidney bean/barley medallions with winter root vegetables and a mushroom onion sauce Red potatoes Dessert: Rum raisin ice cream with a hazelnut cookie Selection of coffees or teas

Mar 27th 5PM	Fri	DaPonte String Quartet Kirsten Monke, viola Lydia Forbes, violin Myles Jordan, cello Philipp Elssner, violin Beethoven Op. 59 No. 2 Britten Second String Quartet	Caesar salad with Parmesan Baguette or sourdough bread with butter Entrée: Salmon with a light cream dill sauce Vegan: Lentil, sweet potato, onion, zucchini tower with a light cream dill sauce Basmati rice Peas Dessert: Viennese walnut chocolate apricot square Selection of coffees or teas

Apr 10th 5PM	Fri	Ad Libitum Ensemble La Magnifique Music at Versailles Marina Minkin, harpsichord Jesse Lepkoff, recorder Na'ama Lion, traverso Carol Lewis, viola da gamba Website	House salad with balsamic vinaigrette Baguette with butter Entrée: Baked haddock with home-made tartar sauce Home-made cole slaw Vegan: Glazed portobello mushroom stir fry with green peppers, zucchini and tofu Basmati rice Glaze carrots Dessert: Florida rum cake with whipped cream Selection of coffees or teas

May 9th 5PM	Sat	Mother's Day Eve concert An evening of music, storytelling, folklore, and history Gordon Thomas Ward Website	Green house salad with honey lemon dressing Baguette with butter Entrée: Chicken with tarragon sauce Vegetarian: Walnut/cheddar/onion medallions with tarragon sauce Roasted broccoli and cauliflower Basmati rice Dessert: Apple crisp with whipped cream Coffee or tea

May 22nd	Fri	"Promenades" The program will feature a famous "Kegelstatt" trio by Mozart, an eloquent and colorful pair of Interludes by Ibert, a playful and evocative "Promenades” by Martinu and a lesser known work by Italian-American composer Vittorio Rieti Anatole Wiek, violin, viola Marina Minkin, harpsichord, piano Elizabeth Downing, flute	TBA

Jun 6th 5PM	Sat	Harpsichord recital Mark Kroll Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and François Couperin (1668-1733). ... Mark will be performing this program later in June as featured soloist at the Leipzig Bach Festival.	TBA

Jun 12th 5PM	Fri	Four String Quartets Concert by 4 students in each of 4 string quartets in the Advanced Quartet Studies Master Class hosted by the DaPonte String Quartet	TBA

Jun 13th 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Danny Holt	TBA

Jun 27th 5PM	Sat	Harpsichord and violin concert James Kennerly, harpsichord Heidi Powell, Baroque violin Sylvia Schwartz, Baroque violin	TBA

July 11th 5PM	Sat	Cello recital Joachim Woitun	TBA

July 25, 5PM	Sat	Aaron Larget-Caplan International guitar virtuoso and composer Website	TBA

Aug 8th 5PM	Sat	Cello an Piano Concert Baroque cello sonatas Tim Garrett, cello Caleb Sension, piano	TBA

Aug 15th 5PM	Sat	Miami Spice Jazz Concert Mike Levine-Piano Richard Bravo-Percussion Sam Levine-Drums Al Hospers-Bass Mike Sakash-Sax's Jarrod Taylor-Guitar	TBA

Aug 29th 5PM	Sat	BOOM - Baroque Orchestra of Maine Heidi Powell, violin Raffael Scheck, cello Sylvia Schwart, violin	TBA

Oct 9th 5PM	Fri	Dobro musician and singer Abbie Gardner	TBA

Oct 10th 5PM	Sat	Cello, piano, and clarinet concert Phillip Silver, piano Noreen Silver, cello Eric Thomas, clarinet	TBA

Dec 18th 5PM	Fri	DaPonte String Quartet Kirsten Monke, viola Lydia Forbes, violin Myles Jordan, cello Philipp Elssner, violin	TBA

Past concert seasons ... 2025 ... 2024 ... 2023 ... 2022 ... 2021 ... 2020 ... 2019 ... 2018

Musicians - Bios are added as concerts are scheduled.

Members of the Ad Libitum Ensemble have performed together in various settings over more than 20 years, and are coming together to present this program of gems from the chamber music repertoire of the French Baroque by such masters as Couperin, Hotteterre, Marais, Clerambault, Rameau and Dieupart in different combinations featuring the colors of pairs of flutes, viol and harpsichord. The program will take us into the realm of elegant and refined French court music. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries France was governed by music-loving rulers who gave great importance to the role of arts in society and were promoting not only grand genres such as ballet de cour or tragedie lyrique but also many forms of instrumental chamber music, written by and for the leading composers - performers of the day.

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.

Abbie Gardner is a fiery dobro player with an infectious smile. Whether performing solo or with Americana darlings Red Molly, her songs are propelled by impeccable slide guitar chops. Her live show is truly unique - as an award-winning songwriter, captivating vocalist, and a world-class lap style dobro player, she has an unmistakable sound all her own. This sound of vocals and dobro unaccompanied is masterfully captured on her 2022 CD "DobroSinger." The record hit #11 on the Billboard Blues Charts and #2 on the Folk DJ Charts. It’s a raw intimate recording full of blues and heartfelt ballads. Quite a contrast to Wishes on a Neon Sign (2018) which featured a co-write with Chris Stapleton and leaned on full band production. She's a Kerrville New Folk Finalist (2025) and was recently nominated for Folk Alliance International's Artist of the Year (ceremony in Jan 2026). Though she has traveled around the world with Red Molly, Abbie stands strong as a solo act and has opened for Lori McKenna, Hot Rize, and Martina McBride. www.abbiegardner.com/epk

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

Kennerly Hailed as “a great organist” displaying “phenomenal technique and sheer musicality” (Bloomberg News), James Kennerley is a multi-faceted musician, working as a conductor, singer, composer, as well as a highly accomplished harpsichordist. His performances are known for their illustrious flair and thrilling virtuosity, subtlety and finesse, drawing on the full resources of the instrument. He was appointed the Municipal Organist of Portland, Maine in 2017. Together with the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, the Municipal Organist position is one of the most prominent and significant for the promotion of the organ, its music, and the many educational and outreach opportunities it enables. Since September 2019 he has been Director of Music at Saint Paul’s Church and Choir School in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, directing the choir of boy choristers and professional men in daily performances, regular concert tours, recordings, and broadcasts. A recognized specialist in the realm of early music, he has collaborated with William Christie, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, among others. He has given solo harpsichord concerts throughout the United States and Europe to great acclaim. He made his Carnegie Hall solo début in 2016 with the celebrated ensemble the Sejong Soloists.

Kroll Mark Kroll’s distinguished career as a performer, scholar and educator spans a period of more than fifty years. He has appeared in recital as a harpsichordist and fortepianist in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia; performed as concerto soloist with the world's major orchestras; and served as harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony from 1979-2008. Equally active as a scholar, Kroll has published eight books, among them Bach, Handel and Scarlatti: Reception in Britain 1750-1850; The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord; Playing the Harpsichord Expressively; The Boston School of Harpsichord Building; and The Beethoven Violin Sonatas. Kroll has also published numerous chapters and articles on a variety of subjects, and scholarly editions of the music of Hummel, Avison, Junker, and Geminiani. His book on Harpsichord Music of the Twentieth Century will be published by Cambridge University Press. A dedicated educator, Kroll is Professor emeritus at Boston University, where he served for twenty-five years as Professor of Harpsichord and Chair of the Department of Historical Performance. He continues to teach and lecture in universities and conservatories throughout the world. His website is www.markkroll.com.

A daring and trailblazing classical guitarist and composer, Aaron Larget-Caplan searches for the life in music & music in life. He has performed over 1000 concerts in Europe, Russia, Taiwan, and across the USA, premiered over 120 compositions, directs the Spanish music & dance ensemble ¡Con Fuego!, while curating the New Lullaby Project, and the Now Musique recital series. His arrangements and recording of the music of John Cage are the first to be sanctioned by the John Cage Trust and have received international accolades. His 11 solo albums have earned over 10 million streams, and include albums dedicated to J.S. Bach, John Cage, Spanish romantic and flamenco composers, contemporary composers, and his own music. Raised in Colorado he makes his home in Boston where is on the faculty at the New England Conservatory. He performs on a guitar by French luthier Olivier Fanton D’Andon.

Jesse Lepkoff, baroque flute, recorder, received his graduate education at the Royal Conservatory in the Netherlands with baroque flutist Wilbert Hazelzet. His many performances include appearances with The Smithsonian Chambers Players,The Musicians of Swanne Alley, The Newberry Consort, Joel Fredriksen & Ensemble Phoenix, and The Arcadia Players. He has appeared at many major festivals around the world including Tanglewood, Aix en Provence, Wolf Trap, BEMF, Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Utrect, Festival d’Ile de France among others. The Springfield Union News reported: “His phrasing seemed to defy the human body’s oxygen requirements, while remaining infinitely graceful and acoustically penetrating.” He performs and records regularly with The Boston Camerata, and since 1984 has toured with them in 14 countries, and has recorded for American and European radios, as well as for the Erato, Fleur de Son, and Nonesuch labels. He is the director of Ensemble Amphion.

The viola da gamba playing of Carol Lewis has been called “brilliantly florid” and “consistently exquisite”. She has frequently demonstrated her musical virtuosity and versatility as a soloist in recitals in the United States and abroad. A former student of Jordi Savall, Ms. Lewis is also an accomplished ensemble musician, having toured and recorded with Hespèrion, Boston Camerata, Ensemble Chaconne and Capriccio Stravagante. She recently appeared with Ensemble Chaconne at the National Music Museum (SD), Zamir Chorale (Newton, MA) and Capella Clausura (Boston, MA). Ms. Lewis teaches a viol consort class at Somerville High School, and she has taught at Festival dei Saraceni (Pamparato, Italy), Milano Civica Scuola di Musica (Italy), New England Conservatory of Music, Bunker Hill Community College, Amherst Early Music, Pinewoods Early Music Week, and the annual summer conclave of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She is vice president of the Viola da Gamba Society-New England.

Lion Na’ama Lion is well known as a versatile flute player. She has explored medieval music, playing with “Sequentia”; Renaissance consort music with "Tres doulx"; 18th and 19th century music with numerous groups, including Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, Grand Harmonie, Upper Valley Baroque, Providence Baroque Orchestra, and more. She is a committed performer of new music, and also presents and promotes music by women composers through her teaching and with ensembles such as La Donna Musicale and Eudaimonia. Na’ama was invited to present a headliner recital for the National Flute Association Convention focusing on the work of women composers past and present, performed on the Baroque flute. Na’ama holds a Doctoral degree from Boston University, teaches at the Longy School of Music and the University of North Texas, and directs a chamber music program at Harvard College. Na’ama has recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Telarc and private labels.

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.

Marina Minkin performs and records regularly as a soloist, and as a member of the Phoenix Ensemble, the Spectrum Ensemble, and with the Israel Contemporary Players (Ensemble 21). She holds Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Jerusalem Academy, Israel, and Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Boston University, USA. Currently she resides in Israel and teaches harpsichord and baroque music courses at the Levinsky College School of Music Education, at the Israeli Conservatory in Tel-Aviv and at the Jezreel Valley Art Center. Marina Minkin has just released 2 new CDs: a recording of Vittorio Rieti’s harpsichord solo and chamber music on New World Records featuring acclaimed American and Israeli artists, and “Conversations” – contemporary music for 2 harpsichords (with David Shemer) on Omnibus Classics. Her other recordings include the CD Harpsichord Music by Israeli Composers (Albanu Records), the album Bach, Bach & Bach (Artona) featuring sonatas for viola and harpsichord by J.S. Bach and his sons (with Michael Zaretsky, viola), and numerous appearances on the WGBH radio station (Boston), the Kol Israel classical music radio station (Israel), RCJ radio Paris, and WNYC radio NewYork. From 2009. Dr. Minkin has been appointed as the Artistic Director of the Yehiam Renaissance Festival (Western Galilee, Israel).

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.

Scheck Raffael Scheck comes from Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and is Gibson Professor of modern European history at Colby College, where he has taught since 1994. Before becoming a historian, he studied cello for several semesters with Claude Starck at the conservatory of Zürich (Switzerland). He has specialized in baroque cello and performed with baroque groups in Maine, including the Colby Collegium, BOOM, Music's Quill, and St. Mary Schola. With theorbo player Timothy Burris, Scheck is member of the ensemble ScheckMate, which performs baroque music on period cello and theorbo as well as more recent music for modern cello and guitar. Scheck contributed many times to the Portland Early Music Festival and plays in the Colby Symphony Orchestra.

Schwartz Niu Deeply inspired by the relationship between music, movement, and dance, violinist and Dalcrozian Sylvia Schwartz is a passionate chamber musician in both modern and historical performance practices. The power of music to heal and to bring us together drives Sylvia to perform wherever she can, from the Scarborough COVID-19 vaccine clinic to Shostakovich Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sylvia performs with several groups including Guts Baroque (which she co-founded), Baroque Orchestra of Maine, Aurora Camerata (St. Mary Schola), Portland Bach Experience, Classical Uprising, North Star Baroque, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Newton Baroque, Arcadia Players, and on the Noonday, Quietside, Bagaduce, Vigorous Tenderness, and BEMF Fringe concert series. Sylvia earned a M.Mus. in Violin Performance from Longy School of Music, and a B.S. in Engineering from Olin College. She enjoys nurturing vivid, healthy, historically-informed playing in her students of all ages at Portland Conservatory of Music and Palaver Music Center.

Silver 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.

Ward 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.”

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.