Bowdoin International Music Festival
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| Genre | Classical |
| Dates | June 25-August 6, 2011 |
| Location(s) | Brunswick, Maine, USA |
| Years active | 1964-Present |
| Founded by | Robert Beckwith, Lewis Kaplan |
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| http://www.bowdoinfestival.org | |
The Bowdoin International Music Festival is an annual summer music school and concert series that takes place in Brunswick, Maine. Founded in 1964 as a program of Bowdoin College, it has operated as an independent nonprofit organization since 1997. 55 to 65 faculty and guest artists and up to 275 students perform in more than 80 concerts in the Brunswick area over a six-week period each summer. Faculty, guest artists, and students are all chosen through a highly selective process from among the world's top classical musicians.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the highest artistic standards.
The Bowdoin International Music Festival's concerts feature distinguished classical musicians from renowned chamber groups, orchestras, and conservatories worldwide, and the extraordinary young musicians who travel to Maine each summer to work with them in the Summer Study program.
The Summer Study program is designed for serious, advanced performers of classical music who are motivated, disciplined, and comfortable with a significant amount of independence.
During its six-week season, the Festival presents 20 concerts in four professional series and as many as 60 concerts in the Artists of Tomorrow, Community, and Bowdoin Festival Extra series.
Festival Fridays Festival Fridays is the Festival's premier Friday night series presenting traditional chamber music and orchestral repertoire performed by artists from around the world. Concerts feature Festival artists and guest artists such as Igor Begelman, Glenn Dicterow, Joan Kwuon, Joel Smirnoff, Sergiu Schwartz, Emma Tahmiazian, and the Ying and Shanghai Quartets.
Festival Wednesdays A mid-week series featuring an innovative mix of contemporary and traditional music in an informal atmosphere that attracts a younger, more diverse audience. The Upbeat! series includes many of the same performers as the Festival Fridays series. It also presents works by the Festival's resident and guest composers, such as Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, William Bolcom, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Robert X. Rodriguez, Huang Ruo, Elliott Schwartz, and Bright Sheng.
Monday Showcases Monday Showcase is a series featuring resident and guest quartets performing both string quartet repertoire and collaborations between the quartets and Festival faculty.
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