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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 $30, $25 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 - Concerts are inserted as they are scheduled. Bios are at the end of the page. See below for schedules from past years.

Dates/Times Days Program titles and descriptions Optional dinners
       
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 15th, 4PM 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.
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 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.
TBA
       
Feb 28th, 4PM Fri DaPonte String Quartet
Kirsten Monke, viola. Lydia Forbes, violin. Myles Jordan, cello. Philipp Elssner, violin.
DaPonte website
TBA
       
Mar 15th, 4PM Sat Baroque Orchestra of Maine
Heidi Powell and Sylvia Schwartz, baroque violins. Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, baroque harp
BOOM website
TBA
       
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
       
Jun 13th, 5PM Fri Harpsichord and Violin Concert
Mark Kroll, harpsichord. Carol Lieberman, violin

Lecture on harpsichords, June 12th

TBA
       
Aug 23rd, 5PM Fri Voice Recital
Ashley Mulcahey, mezzo-soprano. James Perretta, viol

Lyracle


TBA
       
Oct 4th, 5PM Sat Piano and Cello Concert

Phillip Silver, piano. Noreen Silver, cello.

Works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn

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

Musicians - Bios are added as concerts are scheduled.

BarrettDr. 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.

ClevelandScott 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.



Danny HoltFormed 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.


Danny HoltCalled “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

PowellHeidi 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.

TreitlerMax 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.










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