2024 Concerts at Eagle Hill

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 an intermission. Start times for concerts are noted in the calendar below.

Concerts 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.

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Regular ... $25
Friends of Music and college and university students ... $20
Children 18 and under ... free, if accompanied by their parents or relatives who are not guests of others. Otherwise $15.

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. Reservations need to be made by 10AM of the program day. Dinner details and menus.

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Dates/Times	Days	Program titles and descriptions	Bios are at the end of this page.

2024 - Concerts are inserted as they are scheduled.

Jan 12th, 5PM	Fri	A jazz evening With all original compositions by the musicians	Dan Barrett, trumpet. Scott Cleveland, piano. Mike Bennett, drums.

Feb 9th, 5PM	Fri	The Romantic Baroque: 17th and 18th centuries gems for Valentines Day Music by J.B. de Boismortier, Anna Bon, G Sarti, F. Couperin, C.P.E Bach, and J.S. Bach Ad Libitum Ensemble	Marina Minkin, piano. Na'ama Lion, Baroque flutes.

Feb 23rd, 5PM	Fri	A jazz evening With original compositions by the musicians, plus older jazz standards now in public domain	Dan Barrett, trombone. Scott Cleveland, piano. Ann Delaney, vocals

Mar 16th, 5PM	Sat	Baroque Orchestra of Maine Music by Music by Antonio Vivaldi (1680-1743), Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763), Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco (1675-1742), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)	Heidi Powell, Baroque violin Sylvia Schwartz, Baroque violin Daniel Pyle, harpsichord

Postponed	?	Il Contrapposto: An Ensemble Leçons de ténèbres - Music of the French Baroque: Francois Couperin (1668-1773), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Marin Marais (1656-1728)	Judah Coffman, Viola da Gamba. Alexandra Henderson, Soprano. Charles Iner, Theorbo. Laura Thomas, Soprano.

Apr 27, 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Compositions by François Couperin, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc	Deiran Manning.

May 3, 5:30PM	Fri	Jazz Benefit Concert for the Steuben Library Donation $40 ... Signup link	Brian Stewart and Leonore Hildebrandt.

May 10th, 5PM	Fri	A jazz evening With all original compositions by the musicians	Dan Barrett, trombone. Scott Cleveland, piano. Kyle Jordan, saxophone.

May 18, 5PM	Sat	Early music ensemble Intimate and dramatic works from the 17th and 18th centuries by Rameau, Schenk, Kremburg, et al.	Jane Hershey, viola da gamba. Catherine Liddell, lute. Pamela Dellal, mezzo soprano.

June 1st, 5PM	Sat	The 45th Parallel Program details to follow	Chris Nemeth, violin. Laura Gallucci, viola. Timothy Garrett, cello.

Jun 14th, 5PM	Fri	An Evening with the University of Maine Jazz Quintet De-Evolutionary Etudes: 12 all-original compositions	Dan Barrett, trombone. Mark Tipton, trumpet. Scott Cleveland, piano. Ross Gallagher, bass. Mike Bennett, drums.

Jun 29th, 5PM	Sat	Piano recital De-Evolutionary Etudes: 12 all-original compositions	Alan Kryszak.

Jul 20, 5PM	Sat	"Miami Spice" Jazz	Mike Levine, piano. Nicky Orta, Bass. Steve Salo, Drums. Wendy Pederson, voice.

Aug 3, 5PM	Sat	Piano recital	Danny Holt.

Sep 7, 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Music of the Landscape	Ben Cosgrove.

Sep 21, 5PM	Sat	The New York based Duo YUMENO—koto musician Yoko Reikano Kimura and cellist Hikaru Tamaki—will present its singular fusion of sound which has been praised as "exquisite" and "compelling" in a concert featuring Grandioso and But Beautiful, newly commissioned works by renowned American composers Daron Hagen and Takuma Itoh. The diverse program will also include works by J. S. Bach, Marty Regan and more.	Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto, shamisen, and voice. Hikaru Tamaki, cello.

Oct 5th, 5PM	Sat	Piano and cello concert • Beethoven: Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1 • Martinu: Sonata No. 2 • Shostakovich: Sonata in D minor, Op. 40	Phillip Silver, piano. Noreen Silver, cello.



Past schedules ... 2023 ... 2022 ... 2021 ... 2020 ... 2019 ... 2018

Musicians - Bios are added as concerts are scheduled.

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.

Mike Bennett Mike Bennet grew up on MDI and is a Dick Ordway ‘disciple’. Dick started at MDI when Mike was a Sophomore. Mike went on to study at Berklee and has a Music Ed degree from University of Maine. He later studied classical percussion with Dr. Stuart Marrs, and Jazz drumming with world renowned teachers Jim Chapin and Alan Dawson. Known as one of Maine’s premier versatile drummers, Mike played drums with the Patty Wicks Trio back in the early 90’s playing with Larry Coryell, Buddy DeFranco, Sheila Jordan, Clark Terry, Anita O’Day, just to name a few. In the late 90’s Mike was the percussionist for a touring jam band called the Beatroots, which opened for Phish at The Great Went. In 1999 Mike made his 1st trip to Gambia to study West African music and culture. He has now made 12 trips and is now considered a foremost expert on Gambian percussion in the country. Mike has been the premiere drum/percussion teacher in Down east Maine for nearly 30 years. In addition to keeping a busy performance schedule, he is adjunct faculty at COA teaching World Percussion, and at UMaine, where he teaches jazz drum set and jazz combos.

Scott Cleveland is a lifelong composer/singer/pianist/music educator/church musician. 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. (magna cum laude) from Boston University School of Theology. He has written and produced six independent solo albums and performs original and reinterpreted Jazz/R&B/Blues/Fusion/Rock as a solo pianist and singer and in numerous duos/trios/quartets. He is on the Adjunct Music Faculty of the University of Maine at Orono, teaches Jazz piano privately, and is a recording studio pianist. His solo docu-concert “The Blues Spectrum” has been performed at numerous venues in Maine, Massachusetts and Nova Scotia including Gloucester Stage Co., Colby College and Camden Opera House. His musical director/pit band credits include: Man of La Mancha, Oliver, The Fantasticks, Fun Home (New Surry Theatre); The Pajama Game, Almost, Maine (Reach Performing Arts Center); Ten Real Star Acts, The Last Ferryman (Stonington Opera House), Spamalot (The Grand Theatre, Ellsworth) H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine) and numerous high school productions. He also composed the choral overture and incidental music for Cabin Fever Theatre’s Almost, Maine, and was commissioned to compose the piano score for the multimedia production of From Away to Here… which premiered at The Burnt Cove Church, Stonington in July 2015. He currently manages and performs in the Sandy’s Café Dinner Concert Series in Blue Hill.

Coffman Judah Coffman is a Performer and Scholar based in Cambridge, MA. He recently completed his Doctorate in Historical Performance Practice at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. There, he studied voice with Ellen Hargis and baroque cello/viola da gamba with Jaap ter Linden. Judah has appeared as a vocal soloist with The Thirteen, Les Délices, Scaramella, and Alchymy Viols, and regularly sings with Apollo’s Fire, L’Academie du Roi Soleil, Schola Antiqua Boston, and Quire Cleveland.

Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Described by the Boston Globe as “a sonic plein-air painter… [using] his piano as a paintbrush,” Ben has performed in every U.S. state except for Delaware, collaborated with groups ranging from rock bands to research scientists, contributed music to several radio and film projects (including the recent Ken Burns documentary The American Buffalo), and held residencies and fellowships with institutions including NASA, the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. His nonfiction about landscape has been published in Orion, Taproot, Northern Woodlands, Appalachia, and other outlets, and he is also known for his work with folk/Americana acts such as Ghost of Paul Revere, Darlingside, Max García Conover, and many others.

Delaney Ann Delaney is a soulful jazz singer raised in Ohio and Louisiana. Ann played cello and piano before deciding to be a singer when she was 13 and discovered her family’s large collection of sheet music from the 1920’s-1950s. Ann learned the songs of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin. After classical voice training during high school and college, Ann devoted herself solely to jazz in the Columbus, Ohio club scene. She quickly gained a reputation for her repertoire of lesser-known jazz gems and her versatile sound. Ann has been a fixture in the live jazz scene of her adopted home state of Maine since 2002, and her debut album “From This Moment On,” produced by Ann’s voice coach, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jann Klose, was released October 1, 2023. "From This Moment On" is a sparkling display of the breadth and depth of her repertoire, and also a celebration of Ann’s tenth year as a survivor of oropharyngeal cancer. Ann lives in Downeast Maine and visits NYC as often as possible.

Dellal Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano, has enjoyed a distinguished career performing repertoire from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Her international credits include appearances in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan. Known for her work in historical repertoires from medieval through classical, she performed frequently with Sequentia, The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, BEMF, the Newberry Consort, and the Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has premiered works by many prominent composers including Harbison, Boykan, and Brody. In forty seasons with Emmanuel Music, Dellal has performed almost all of Bach’s sacred works. Her extensive discography includes over forty titles. As an educator, she serves on the faculties of the Longy School of Music, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and as Director of Emmanuel Music's Bach Institute.

Duo YUMENO (夢乃). New York based koto/shamisen player and singer Yoko Reikano Kimura and cellist Hikaru Tamaki create a singular fusion of sound, inspired by tradition but with a contemporary sensibility, exploring the dialogue between classical Japanese and western music. Kimura and Tamaki first collaborated at the Fort Wayne Cherry Blossom Festival in 2008 and since then have been performing together regularly in Japan and the US. They were also invited to perform in Turkey and visited Trinidad to be featured at the opening concert of "Japan - CARICOM Friendship Year 2014". In 2014, they were awarded the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program grant, and in 2015, received the Baroque Saal Award given by the Aoyama Foundation in Kyoto. In 2015, the duo was invited to perform at the University of Cambridge in the UK. The duo was featured at the 2017 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC and performed at the John F Kennedy Center. On March 2, 2019, the duo will perform at Carnegie Hall to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Kimura graduated from Tokyo University of Arts and was awarded a scholarship from the Agency of Culture Affairs of Japan. Awards include the First prize at the prestigious 10th Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition. As a koto/shamisen soloist, she has performed with numerous string quartets, chamber ensembles and chamber orchestras. Following his studies at Eastman School of Music, Rice University and Northwestern University, Tamaki served as the principal cellist of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and has given numerous performances of major concertos with the orchestra. He currently serves as the principal cellist of the Berkshire Opera Festival Orchestra and is a member of the Albany Symphony. Their activities have been featured in the media such as the New York Times, Chamber Music America Magazine, the Yomiuri Shinbun, Hōgaku Journal and NPR.

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.

Soprano Alexandra Henderson is a passionate and versatile performer based in the Boston area. A skilled interpreter of operatic, musical theater, and jazz repertoires, Alexandra has built a career on her multifaceted technical ability. Alexandra was most recently seen as the leading role “The Governess” in Benjamin Britten’s opera Turn of the Screw with the Brevard Music Festival. Alexandra is a recipient of the Douglas Smith Scholarship for the Arts from the New England Conservatory of Music, the 2nd Place Prize in the 4th/5th place category of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (TEXOMA), as well as the Third Place Prize in the Student Artist category of the John Alexander National Vocal Competition.

Hershey Jane Hershey studied at Tufts University, the Longy School of Music, and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Wieland Kuijken. She began her career touring and recording with the Boston Camerata, and has gone on to perform with many Boston area performing organizations, and Hesperus and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra in Washington DC. She has performed in many festivals such as Aston Magna, Amherst Early Music, Monadnock Music and for the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She performed with Laura Jeppesen in Trio Charivary and the Carthage Consort in many venue around New England, including at the Loeb Drama Center. She is currently a member of Arcadia Viols, making numerous appearances with the Folger Consort in D.C., An avid teacher, she is on the faculties of the Longy School of Music of Bard College, Powers Music School and directs the Tufts Early Music Ensemble.

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. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Blue Man Group, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the California EAR Unit, and the Calder Quartet, and he has held fellowships at the Bang On a Can Summer Music Institute, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice. When he’s not performing cutting-edge contemporary music, Holt enjoys curating programs of obscure repertoire from the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing rarely-performed works and the unheard stories of lesser-known composers to audiences. 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, and L’strecords. Holt holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Hampshire College, Smith College, and Interlochen Arts Academy. www.dannyholt.net

Iner Charles Iner is a Boston-based lutenist, guitarist, educator, and basso continuo performer. He received an MM in Historical Performance at Boston University, where he was awarded a departmental award for outstanding excellence in 2020, and a BA in Music Performance from Benedictine College. Recent performances include collaborations with Emmanuel Music, Convivium Musicum, Cappella Clausura, Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and SoHIP Boston. Charles maintains dual lives as performer and instructor in Boston and the surrounding area.

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.

Kryszak Alan Kryszak is a Composer/Musician/Filmmaker with 40 years of concert, film and visual work, on KINO International, AppleMusic and Atlantic Screen Group. New music includes Svetlana Belsky’s premiere of the Nocturnes for Solo Piano “Lux Internum”, “Murmur Rations” (2021), “Soft Clowns of the Sea”, "Transparent Preludes" (Piano Collection), & "All the Luck" (Clarinet and Orchestra). Gina Naggar & The New England Film Orchestra ‘s premieres continue with 2024’s “Nosferatu”. Much of his work brings new music to diverse audiences and rare silent films, including "Hamlet", "Limite", "Fall of the House of Usher", “The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Intolerance", at Symphony Space on the "Film & Censorship" series hosted by Martin Scorsese. Turner Classic Movies features 9 of his silent film scores. Recent documentary films directed by Kryszak, on PBS, include “Hungry Now” , “When The Chevy Breaks”, “Whatever Works: Exploring Opiate Addiction” & “Privacy & The Power of Secrets”, at The Hague Global Cinema Festival & The Sweden Film Awards, with The Boston Globe reviewing the US premiere: “Artful & engaging, it’s the way a movie like this should be made”. Kryszak earned a Masters at SUNY Buffalo, studying with Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Foss, Lou Harrison, Bill Kothe & Yvar Mikhashoff. Film studies include legends Leonard Rosenman & Earle Hagan in LA.

Liddell Catherine Liddell's playing has been described as captivating, exquisite and masterful. Her skill and sensitivity as accompanist have made her a sought-after collaborator with leading period-instrument ensembles in the US. Many of these collaborations have resulted in recordings. As a soloist, she has recorded music of Jacques Gallot, Ennemond and Denis Gaultier, Charles Mouton and J.S. Bach. In addition to her work as performer, she teaches lute and co-directs the Collegium at Wellesley College. She serves as Chair of the Board for the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities, and as Vice-President of the Lute Society of America.

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.

Based in the Sunshine State, Jazz pianist Mike Levine of Miami Spice has developed a reputation as a solid player, producer and composer on the Miami scene. With a career that stretches back to the early 80’s, the University of Miami alumnus made his record debut in 1981 as co-leader of The Ross-Levine Band, a project upon which Pat Metheny was a guest artist. The effort drew national attention and remained in the top ten of the AC- Jazz Chart for six weeks. The subsequent effort also faired well and paved the band’s way as an opening act for such highly regarded performers as Michael Franks, Gato Barbieri and Dionne Warwick. In the times since, Levine has enjoyed a variety of gigs and recordings with Mel Torme,The Jaco Pastorius Big Band,Ed Calle,Michael Bolton,Les DeMerle, David Sanborn,Roberto Perrera,Billy Ross,Greg Abate and John Secada to touring in Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Austria and Canada. His festivals appearances have been several, The Montreal, Detroit, Syracuse, Aruba, Amelia Island, Panama City, Pensacola and Berks Jazz Festivals. Mike has been performing in Maine for the past 15 years during the summer from Portland to Lubec. From solo piano to trio to quartet and sextet he covers a lot of musical ground. His performance, here at Eagle Hill, will be his trio with Nicky Orta and bass, Steve Salo on drums, plus world class vocalist Wendy Pedersen. www.mikelevinemusic.com

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).

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.

Daniel Pyle 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.

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. Sylvia earned a Master of Music in Violin Performance from the Longy School of Music, where she studied with Laura Bossert and coached extensively with Dana Maiben, Na’ama Lion, Vivian Montgomery, and Ryan Turner. She is also a certified Suzuki Violin Teacher through Book 3. Sylvia teaches privately, in person and online, and at the Vienna Music Institute. She has also taught at the Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program, Music 101, and the Winchester Community Music School, where she was also Administrative Director of the WCMS Summer Chamber Music Festival.

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.

Stewart-Hildebrant As a folk duo with a jazzy vibe, Leonore Hildebrant and Brian Stewart write, arrange, and play their own songs. They have performed over many years and recorded several albums. Brian plays piano and guitar, Leonore plays percussion and guitar, and they both sing. Their song lyrics are thoughtful and fun. Both live with their families in Harrington, where they built their own houses and grow lovely gardens.

Thomas Laura Thomas is a Boston-based soprano specializing in early and sacred music. She holds an M.M. in Historical Performance (Voice) from Boston University. She has appered as a soloist in the cantatas Susanne and Judith with Cappella Clausura, Handel's Messiah with the Schola of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and Monteverdi's Vespers with the Stonehill Collegiate Chorale. Laura is a dedicated choral musician, regularly performing with Carduus, Cappella Clausura, Ensemble Altera and Ensemble Laetare. She is a soprano choral scholar at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.

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.