BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ogunquit Performing Arts - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ogunquit Performing Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T180000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20250820T021502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250823T233953Z UID:10000230-1760886000-1760896800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Piano Festival: Student Piano Recital DESCRIPTION:The 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival concludes with the Student Piano Recital\, showcasing  the area’s best young pianists\, performing on Ogunquit Performing Arts Committee’s world class Steinway piano before a live audience in a beautiful setting. \nThe festival\, and particularly this popular event\, honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham (“Betty”)\, and is inspired by her own life as a piano student\, performer and teacher. As a student\, she first received a music degree from Smith College and continued her studies with renowned concert pianists and faculty members from Dunbarton College in Washington\, D.C. and Julliard School of Music\, in New York City. \nThe founder and 1st chair of Ogunquit Performing Arts (OPA)\, Betty saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains its greatest treasure. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/18th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-design-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T213000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20250820T020752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T002821Z UID:10000229-1760729400-1760736600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Jonathan Bass\, pianist DESCRIPTION:Virtuoso pianist\, Jonathan Bass\, brings his wide-ranging repertoire and talent to Ogunquit for the first time.  Jonathan enjoys a multi-faceted career\, and appears frequently throughout the United States and around the world as soloist and chamber musician.  Of his 1994 Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut\, New York Concert Review wrote\, “A technical presence to be reckoned with…soaring with a feeling of lyrical discovery.” \n“Bass is everything a pianist should be: encompassing technical brilliance without showiness\, musical and emotional depth\, careful thought and an architectural sense of structure. He has a huge dynamic range\, and what impressed me the most about his performance was his extremely delicate and controlled pianissimo\, probably the hardest thing to do well on the piano.” Christopher Hyde\, Maine Classical Beat \n \n Purchase Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n Tickets to this performance are available three weeks before the concert date on this website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at  Crickets Corner Beach and Toy\, 41 Shore Rd\, the Ogunquit Welcome Center\, 20 Shore Rd\, and the Dunaway Center\, 23 School St. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Program: \nSonata in C Major\, Hob. XVI:50 HaydnAllegroAdagioAllegro molto \nMazurka in A Minor\, Op. 59 No. 1 ChopinMazurka in A-Flat Major\, Op. 59 No. 2Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor\, Op. 59 No. 3 \nSonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor\, Op. 35 ChopinGrave; Doppio movimentoScherzoMarche funèbre: LentoFinale: Presto \n-Intermission- \nPiano Variations (1930) Copland \nGaspard de la nuit RavelOndineLe gibetScarbo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jonathan Bass\nAmerican pianist Jonathan Bass appears frequently throughout the United States and around the world as soloist and chamber musician. He is a regular presence at Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston\, and at Tanglewood. His solo and chamber music recordings have received high acclaim from Gramophone Magazine. Internationally\, he has performed in China\, Israel\, Japan\, Lithuania\, Poland\, Spain\, and Russia. He has been featured on many radio programs throughout the United States\, including National Public Radio’s ‘Performance Today’. Bass has performed as concerto solo soloist with numerous orchestras\, including the Boston Pops and the North Carolina Symphony. Of his 1994 Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut\, New York Concert Review wrote\, “A technical presence to be reckoned with…soaring with a feeling of lyrical discovery.”Bass was awarded First Prizes in the 1993 Joanna Hodges International PianoCompetition\, the 1984 American National Chopin Competition\, the 1989 American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship Competition\, and the 1983 National Arts Club Competition. He also received the Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the 1987 Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. \nCollaborative highlights include multiple guest appearances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players\, and recitals with violinist Joseph Silverstein. He also partners with his wife\, BSO violinist Tatiana Dimitriades\, in the Boston Duo. For more than 20 years\, as the pianist and a founding member of the Walden Chamber Players\, he performed on a variety of chamber music series and residencies across the United States and Canada. \nHe has recorded music by Larry Bell\, Samuel Barber\, Marion Bauer\, Amy Beach\, Paul Bowles\, Daniel Pinkham\, Quincy Porter\, Walter Piston\, Ned Rorem\, Gerhard Schedl\, Augusta Read Thomas\, as well as Bach\, Chopin\, and Scriabin. \nA graduate of the Juilliard School as a student of Adele Marcus and Sasha Gorodnitski\, Jonathan Bass holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music\, where he studied with\, and was teaching assistant to\, Menahem Pressler. He also studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow\, a rare opportunity for an American at that time. Bass is a Professor of Piano at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. His students have won many competition prizes\, and he has given numerous master classes across the country. \nJonathan Bass is a Steinway Artist. \nwww.jonathanbass.net \n \n Purchase Tickets URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/18th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-jonathan-bass-pianist/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-design-7-e1755702393118.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T213000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20250820T015413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T191706Z UID:10000228-1760211000-1760218200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper: Four Hands\, One Piano DESCRIPTION:Renowned classical pianist\, Randall Hodgkinson\, returns to Ogunquit\, where he has appeared multiple times as a soloist\, and with Boston Chamber Music. This time he will be joined by equally acclaimed pianist\, Leslie Amper\, also his spouse\, for a special performance on OPA’s Steinway\, developed just for Ogunquit Performing Art’s 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham’s Piano Festival. They regularly perform together\, a four hand\, two piano repertoire. Perhaps their best known recording together is “The Manatee: Piano Music of Bernard Hoffer.” \n \n Purchase Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Program: \nBrahms Selections from Waltzes opus 39 \nMendelssohn Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream \nMozart Sonata in C  \nSchubert Grand Duo \n \n \n \n \n \n Tickets to this performance are available three weeks before the concert date on this website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at  Crickets Corner Beach and Toy\, 41 Shore Rd\, the Ogunquit Welcome Center\, 20 Shore Rd\, and the Dunaway Center\, 23 School St. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Randall Hodgkinson\n“The finest performance I have ever heard of this very difficult piece. It was as if he was reading my mind….” Aaron Copland on hearing pianist Randall Hodgkinson performing his Piano Fantasy in Jordan Hall\, Boston \nRandy achieved recognition as the Grand Prize winner of the International American Music competition\, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation\, winner in the JS Bach International Competition\, and as the recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s prestigious Cabot Award. His solo orchestral performances include appearances with the Atlanta and Boston Symphony Orchestras\, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras\, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra\, and internationally with the Iceland Philharmonic Orchestra\, and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He has had successful collaborations with such well-regarded musical giants as Leonard Bernstein and Gunther Schuller. \nAs both Randy’s parents were musicians\, Randy began his musical career at a very young age\, with his mother as his first teacher. “Discovered” at a music festival at age 15\, he was encouraged to apply for admission to the New England Conservatory of Music\, where he earned a BA\, MM\, and AD. \nHis musical repertoire spans from JS Bach to Donald Marino\, and he performed the world premier of the piano concerto of Gardner Read at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, N.Y. \nHe currently serves on the faculties of the New England Conservatory\, the Longy School of Music of Bard College\, and Wellesley College. \nwww.wellesley.edu/people/randall-hodgkinson \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leslie Amper \n“The highlight of the program was a most commanding and serious performance of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations…She built the series in a mighty span\, intensely engaged throughout.” New York Times \nLeslie Amper launched her career with a critically acclaimed debut in the Carnegie Recital Hall. While still a conservatory student\, she won the first annual Jordan Hall Honors Competition and was selected to play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #3 at her graduation ceremony from The New England Conservatory of Music. Taking advantage of a program offered through the Pittsburgh public schools for serious high school musicians\, Leslie further honed her musical talents during summers at highly regarded music camps and festivals. \nA winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant\, she performed in Boston\, New York\, Pittsburgh\, and Washington D.C. She also toured the United States as the musical component for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists. An acknowledged scholar and practitioner of contemporary music\, she is equally adept at accompanying silent film\, and has compiled piano accompaniments at the Harvard Film Archives for the short films of King Vidor’s The Crowd\, among others. She also performed onstage piano in Peter Sellars’ production of Chekhov’s A Seagull at the American National Theater. Leslie has continued to lecture and perform internationally in England\, Italy and Austria\, and at Art Museums around the country\, including but not limited to the National Gallery of Art\, the Norton Museum of Art. In 2020\, she performed virtual concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. \nShe currently teaches at the Longy School of Music of Bard College\, the New England Conservatory Preparatory Department\, and Wheaton College. She has held residencies at the Universities of Washington and Arizona\, and has lectured at Boston University and the University of Pittsburgh\, as well as at the New Hampshire Music Festival\, where she is a regular performer. \nwww.leslieamper.com \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Purchase Tickets URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/18th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-randall-hodgkinson-and-leslie-amper-four-hands-one-piano/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled-design-6-e1755702702675.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20250527T170118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T170914Z UID:10000224-1749843000-1749843000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC STRING QUARTET DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n \n \n \n \n In recent years\, OPA’s Chamber Music Festival has featured an on-going partnership with Boston Chamber Music\, which every year puts together a special ensemble for the Ogunquit concerts\, unique to OPA. \nThe players this year include  Omar Chen  Guey\, violin\, Peter Sulski\, violin\, Noriko Futagami\, viola\, and David Russell\, cello – three of whom have played for OPA before\, with Ms. Futagami making her Ogunquit debut. \nThe Program:\nBoston Chamber Music’s  program this year will feature Haydn’s String Quartet No. 63 in B♭major\, Op. 76\, No. 4\, (the Sunrise Quartet)\, a piece which evokes the rising of the sun and the stirring awakening of nature.  It was selected by Boston Chamber Music as  a fitting tribute to the Marginal Way Centennial\, which this year marks 100 years since the deed of gift of the scenic cliff walk to the town of Ogunquit by Josiah Chase. \nThe Haydn quartet is nicknamed “Sunrise” due to the rising theme over sustained chords that begins the quartet\, and is perhaps the most magical in all Haydn.  Featuring rising themes throughout\, it combines earthiness with sophisticated development\, blending  Hungarian or Balkan folk music with the composer’s natural elegance. \nBCM’s program will also include Mozart’s Quartet in Eb Major\, K. 171 (the Viennese).  Written in 1773\, the quartet represents a considerable advance from Mozart’s previous works and reflects the influence of Haydn. \nCrisantemi    (Chrysanthemums)\, a haunting lovely elegy written by Giacomo Puccini in 1890 in tribute to the late Amadeo I of Spain.  Puccini later incorporated the beautiful\, tragic melodies of this short piece into his first successful opera\, Manon Lescaut. \nMendelssohn’s Quartet in Eb Major\, Op. 12 concludes the program.  This masterfully composed quartet of 1829\, while still echoing the influence of Beethoven\, features stylistic and lyrical departures from that influence as Mendelssohn continued to develop as a composer. \n \n \n \n \n \n The Players:  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Violinist Omar Chen Guey\n Violinist Omar Chen Guey has performed as soloist\, in recitals and chamber concerts throughout his native Brazil\, the US\, Europe\, Asia and Africa.  He is a prizewinner at both Tibor Varga and Lipizer International Violin Competitions.  A faculty member of Dartmouth College\, he is the assistant concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic\, a member of the Boston Ballet and the New England Camerata Trio. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Violist Noriko Futagami\n Violist Noriko Futagami performs with some of the area’s most celebrated ensembles.  She is a member of the Radius Ensemble\,  as well as working with the Boston Musica Viva\, Emmanuel Music\, Cantata Singers\, and Winsor Music on a regular basis.  She holds permanent positions in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and Rhode Island Philharmonic\, and is principal violist for Albany Symphony. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Violinist Peter Sulski\n Violinist Peter Sulski was a member of the London Symphony Orchestra for seven years. While in England\, he served on the faculty of the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music and Drama\, as well as serving as Artistic Director of Chapel Royal Concerts which he founded in 1993. For seven years he gave the annual Viola Masterclass\, as well as many performances at the Dartington International Summer School. He made his Carnegie Hall Debut in 1999. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cellist David Russell\n Cellist David Russell was hailed as a “superb cellist” in the Boston Globe\, and maintains a vigorous schedule both as soloist and as collaborator in the U.S. and Europe. He was appointed to the teaching faculty of Wellesley College in 2005 and currently serves as Director of Chamber Music. He is a regular performer with several Boston-area ensembles such as Emmanuel Music and Cantata Singers and Ensemble\, and served as Principal Cello with Opera Boston from 2005-2011. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for this final chamber music concert of the season\, as these wonderful artists bring this superlative program to Ogunquit audiences! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-chamber-music-festival-concludes-with-boston-chamber-music-string-quartet/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance,Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BCM-Noriko-FutagamiFARHARBOR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20250516T174910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T171218Z UID:10000223-1749238200-1749238200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:ZAHILI ZAMORA AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ TRIO and their Ogunquit Premiere DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n \n \n \n \n Performing in Ogunquit for the first time ever\, Zahili Zamora and her Afro Cuban Jazz Trio promise a unique and unparalleled jazz experience.  Ms Zamora and her Trio have  headlined such venues as the landmark Scullers Jazz Club in Boston\, the Monterey Jazz Festival\, the Celebrity Series of Boston\, the Montreal International Jazz Festival\, and many more. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Her awards include: the Duke Ellington Award\, the Wayne Shorter Award\, the 40th Annual DownBeat music Award in the Outstanding Performance Category\, Finalist at the DC Jazz Prix Competition\, and with her Trio MIXCLA\, a two time nominee for the Boston Music Awards in the Jazz Group category. \nA pianist\, composer\, bandleader\, arranger and educator\, Ms Zamora started playing piano at the age of six\, in her birthplace of Manzanillo\, Cuba\, where she graduated from the National School of Music\, as a classical pianist\, with a performance diploma. Emigrating to Canada\, she explored a wide range of musical genres such as traditional Ecuadorian\, French\, and South African\, and then to Asia for 6 years\, where she even performed with a pop band. \nDiscovering Jazz\, she returned to school in the U.S. to study at the Berklee College of Music\, immersing herself in the study and analysis of jazz performance and composition\, and falling in love with the process of creating. She graduated summa cum laude with a dual MM degree in Jazz Composition and Jazz Piano Performance. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Piano Department. \nThis rich musical background\, career experience and extraordinary improvisation skills\, render her a leader in the modern jazz idiom and an influential and emulated musician. \nShe describes the evolution of her artistic identity as a Latin Jazz pianist\, singer\, bandleader and composer\, through reconnecting with her Cuban roots\, and using elements of her rhythmic idiosyncrasy with American jazz\, while adding and developing skills to encompass her artistry. She describes her music as representing multiculturalism and global unity in these times when there is so much division and oppression. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tributes from musical colleagues and journalists include: \n“…[Zahili] is amongst the most notable female pianists/composers in the field of Latin Jazz today\, and her skills as an improviser are unmatched.”  Oscar Stagnaro \n“In addition to explorations of Habanera-steeped rhythms and textures and flourishes of American big band tradition\, Zamora incorporates spacious and lovely melodies that soar beyond any descriptives..  Rick Koster\, The Day \n“A brilliant classically-trained improviser who is a master of polyrhythms\, she is also a very appealing and versatile singer.”  Scott Yannow\, Jazz Journalist \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please join us to experience this enormous talent\, in an Ogunquit premiere performance. It will blow your musical mind! \nWe are pleased to welcome our local friends and visitors back to the beautiful Barn Gallery\, which has stepped up once again to offer an alternative venue during the repair\, planned renovation and construction of our new municipal building and S. Judson Dunaway community center.  Join us in this wonderful venue for a festive evening with Zahili and her Trio! \nLISTEN TO ZAHILI:  VIDEOS | Zahili Zamora \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/zahili-zamora-afro-cuban-jazz-trio-and-their-ogunquit-premiere/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Jazz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Zahili-Zamora.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20240827T185550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T185858Z UID:10000212-1728761400-1728761400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:17th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival - Randall Hodgkinson DESCRIPTION:Renowned classical pianist\, Randall Hodgkinson\, returns to Ogunquit as a piano soloist\, having performed in Ogunquit multiple times with the late Bruce Coppock and the Boston Chamber Music Society’s Piano Quartet. \n“The finest performance I have ever heard of this very difficult piece. It was as if he was reading my mind…” Aaron Copland on hearing pianist Randall Hodgkinson performing his Piano Fantasy in Jordan Hall\, Boston \nRandy achieved recognition as the Grand Prize winner of the International American Music competition\, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation\, winner in the JS Bach International Competition\, and as the recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s prestigious Cabot Award. His solo orchestral performances include appearances with the Atlanta Symphony\, the Philadelphia\, the Boston Symphony\, and Cleveland Orchestras\, the Buffalo Philharmonic\, and the New York Symphony. He has also performed at numerous well regarded chamber music festivals\, including but not limited to: Blue Hill (Maine)\, Chestnut Hill (Connecticut)\, Seattle (Washington) and Santa Fe (New Mexico). \n As both of Randy’s parents were musicians\, Randy began his musical career at a very young age\, with his mother as his first teacher. “Discovered” at a music festival at age 15 he was encouraged to apply for admission to the New England Conservatory of music\, where he earned a BA\, MM and AD. \nHis musical repertoire spans from JS Bach to Donald Marino\, and he recently performed the world premier of the piano concerto of composer Gardener Read at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, N.Y. He regularly performs the four hand and two piano repertoire with his talented spouse\, Leslie Amper. \nHe currently serves on the faculties of the New England Conservatory\, the Longy School of Music at Bard College in Cambridge\, MA\, and Wellesley College. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mr. Hodgkinson’s Program: \nBach:   Italian Concerto \nBerg:   Sonata in b minor \nChopin:   Fantasy \nChopin:   Sonata in b minor \n \n \n \n \n \n Tickets to these performances are available on this website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at the Cricket’s Corner Beach and Toy\, the Dunaway Center\, and the Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. \nTickets: $20 in advance\, $25 at the door for both Weber and Hodgkinson concerts \nFree admission for Student Recital  \n Free parking for the performances at the Barn Gallery URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/17th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-randall-hodgkinson/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Randall-Hodgkinson-2-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20240827T183351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T230124Z UID:10000210-1728226800-1728243000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:17th Annual Piano Festival - Annual Student Piano Recital DESCRIPTION:The Festival’s Student Piano Recital\, showcases up to 15 of the area’s best young pianists\, performing on Ogunquit Performing Art Committee’s famed Steinway piano. The recital provides these talented local students the opportunity to perform on a world class piano before a live audience in a beautiful setting. \nThe Piano Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure. \nThe Ogunquit Performing Arts Committee was Betty’s brain-child.  Her love of Ogunquit was matched by her love of the piano\, which she studied and taught for most of her life.  She long dreamed of the possibility that Ogunquit could support a program of musical performances to add to its attractiveness as a welcoming place for painters\, sculptors and summer theatre. \nWhen her father\, S. Judson Dunaway\, died in 1976\, his will directed that a portion of his estate be donated to charitable causes.  Betty requested that the executors include a contribution to Ogunquit to endow a fund to help support musical performances\, some to be held at the Dunaway Center\, which he earlier had donated to the town.  When this endowment was in place\, the Committee for the Performing Arts was formed and began its work\, with Betty elected as chairperson. \n \n \n \n \n \n Free admission for Student Recital  \nTickets to these performances are available on this website. . Tickets may also be purchased at the Cricket’s Corner Beach and Toy\, the Dunaway Center\, and the Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. \nTickets: $20 in advance\, $25 at the door for both Weber and Hodgkinson concerts \nFree parking for the performances at the Barn Gallery URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/17th-annual-piano-festival-annual-student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Elizabeth-Dunaway-Burnham-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20240827T185037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T185041Z UID:10000211-1728070200-1728070200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:17th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival - Janice Weber DESCRIPTION:Janice Weber is a vivacious performer with a reputation for programing the most exciting and technically challenging selections – which certainly applies to her upcoming performance for OPA!  Her program includes works by Grieg and Liszt – a composer with whom she is particularly identified. \n“Ms. Weber is … a concert pianist of cliffhanging panache and daredevil brilliance.”  Ellen Pfeifer\, The Wall Street Journal \nHer world premiere recording of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes elicited acclaim from Time Magazine: “Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes\, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.” \nMs. Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody\, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. \nHer recordings also include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet\, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky\, Rosenthal\, and Friedman. \nHer Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein’s radical works introduced the charismatic composer to a worldwide audience. She is heard in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time on Ongaku Records and her newest disc\, Cascade of Roses (Dorian Sono Luminus)\,features works of twenty-one composers from Adolf Jensen to Billy Mayerl. \nA summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music\, Janice Weber has performed at the White House\, Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, National Gallery of Art\, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops\, Chautauqua Symphony\, New Jersey Symphony\, Hilton Head Orchestra\, Sarajevo Philharmonic\, and Syracuse Symphony.   She has performed at the Bard\, Newport\, La Gesse\, Husum\, and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society. \nShe was a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory for twenty-seven years and has taught at MIT and New England Conservatory. \nMs. Weber is also a published author.  Her novels\, most of which have something to do with music\, have a worldwide following.  She also produced the tones for Ivory\, the worldwide bestselling virtual piano software. \nShe is a Steinway artist. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ms. Weber’s Program: \n\nPrelude and Fugue in E minor\, Op. 35 No. 1\n\nFelix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)\n\n\nLyric Pieces\n\nEdvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)\n\nTo Spring\,  Op. 43 No. 6\nMarch of the Trolls\, Op. 54 No. 3\nButterfly\, Op. 43 No. 1\nPeace of the Woods\, Op. 71 No. 4\nWedding Day at Troldhaugen\, Op. 65  No. 6\n\n\n\n\n\n Variations on a Theme of Corelli\, Op. 42\n\nSergei Rachmaninoff  (1873 – 1943)\n\n\n\nINTERMISSION \n\n St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds\n\nFranz Liszt (1811 – 1886)\n\n\nSt. Francis of Assisi Walking on the Waters\n\nFranz Liszt (1811 – 1886)\n\n\nHarmonies du Soir\n\nHungarian Rhapsody No. 12\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Tickets to these performances are available on this website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at the Cricket’s Corner Beach and Toy\, the Dunaway Center\, and the Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. \nTickets: $20 in advance\, $25 at the door for both Weber and Hodgkinson concerts \n Free admission for Student Recital  \n Free parking for the performances at the Barn Gallery URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/17th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-janice-weber/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/JaniceWeber-color2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20230918T181015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150754Z UID:10000197-1697382000-1697398200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:16th Annual Piano Festival - Annual Student Piano Recital - CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:The Festival concludes with the Student Piano Recital\, featuring the area’s best young pianists. Talented local students have the opportunity to perform before a live audience\, sharing the Festival with renowned pianists of national and international repute (Frederick Moyer and Liana Paniyeva). \nThe Festival\, and especially this recital\, honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, the founder and first Chair of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, “Betty” studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. \nBetty Burnham had long dreamed that Ogunquit could support such a program as Ogunquit Performing Arts to add to its attractiveness as a welcoming place for artists\, sculptors and summer theatre. Her dream was realized in November 1978\, when the Committee for the Performing Arts was formed and began its work\, with Betty elected as chairperson. \nShe saw to it that Ogunquit Performing Arts acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure. \nNow 45 years later\, we hope and believe Betty would be happy with the ongoing work of OPA\, and would certainly be proud of the students showcased in this concert.\n \n \n \n \n \n Barn Gallery is owned and administered by the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative\, a volunteer-run 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation. In collaboration with the Ogunquit Art Association\, these two organizations provide the opportunity for professional artists to exhibit their work to the public in a beautiful setting. \nOPA has performed multiple times at the Barn Gallery over the years\, and is proud and grateful to be offering this concert series in this lovely place of visual beauty and wonderful acoustics. Having lost the Dunaway Auditorium to the temporary relocation of the Police Department\, OPA is returning to Barn Gallery\, its home away from home. \nVisit Barn Gallery at barngallery.org URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/16th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Elizabeth-Dunaway-Burnham.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20230913T161401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150755Z UID:10000196-1697225400-1697225400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:16th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival - Liana Paniyeva Piano Concert DESCRIPTION:Making her Ogunquit debut\, Ms. Paniyeva began winning prizes as a young prodigy in Ukraine in 2002. Since that time\, she has won prizes in numerous international competitions. In 2008\, she was awarded first prize in the Music World International Competition in Italy\, and was winner of the Voice of Music competition in Israel.Since then\, she has been awarded performance prizes from such prestigious competitions\, including but not limited to: the American Fine Arts Festival in NYC\, Grand Prize at the Metropolitan International Competition in NYC\, the Cargill Foundation Prize in the Scottish International Competition\, the George Gershwin International Competition\, the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute in Spain. \nHer concert reviews have described her as “a sensitive player” whose “Tuileries movement displays nearly Horowitzian staccato notes at high speed” and her playing presence “holds your attention with tender regard for the music\, a captivating inwardness and sense of free spontaneity.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Liana Paniyeva Program\nMieczysław Weinberg Sonata no 4 op 56(two movements\, Allegro\, Allegro) \n\nMykola Lysenko: “La Rêve”\nBrahms op 76 no 1-3\n\nCapriccio in F# minor\nCapriccio in B minor\nIntermezzo in Ab major\n\n\nChopin Prelude Op 28 no 13\nChopin Ballade No 4\n\n~INTERMISSION~ \n\nSchumann sonata no 1 in f sharp minor op 11\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Her international performance venues include\, but are not limited to\, piano festivals in Norway\, Hungary\, Austria\, Canada\, England\, Syria\, Italy\, South Africa\, Spain and Israel. Her domestic performances include multiple performances at Carnegie Hall\,and the Myra Hess concert series in Chicago. \nHer formal professional education was at the Donetsk Music Academy in Ukraine\, the Manhattan School of Music\, and the Hartt School at the University of Hartford. In 2022\, she was granted the Extraordinary Abilities in the Arts U.S. residence\, awarded only to artists who have attained the highest level in their field. \nIt is appropriate that her Friday performance precedes Sunday’s student piano recital. Based in Boston\, where her studio focuses on encouraging\, teaching\, and mentoring promising young piano students\, during the pandemic\, she founded the first online Young Stars International Piano Competition for young pianists\, ages 6-14 yo. Children from all over the world submitted their recordings: Germany\, Malaysia\, Australia\, Poland\, Canada\, Macedonia\, Thailand\, US\, UK\, Taiwan\, Italy\, India\, Lithuania\, and Azerbiajan. \nHer planned program includes\, Chopin\, Brahms\, Weinberg and Schumann. \nListen to Liana at lianapaniyeva.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n Barn Gallery is owned and administered by the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative\, a volunteer-run 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation. In collaboration with the Ogunquit Art Association\, these two organizations provide the opportunity for professional artists to exhibit their work to the public in a beautiful setting. \nOPA has performed multiple times at the Barn Gallery over the years\, and is proud and grateful to be offering this concert series in this lovely place of visual beauty and wonderful acoustics. Having lost the Dunaway Auditorium to the temporary relocation of the Police Department\, OPA is returning to Barn Gallery\, its home away from home. \nVisit Barn Gallery at barngallery.org URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/16th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-liana-paniyeva/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Liana-Paniyeva-photo-credit-Will-Sherwood.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20230913T162007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150755Z UID:10000195-1696707000-1696707000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:16th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival - Frederick Moyer Piano Concert DESCRIPTION:Returning to Ogunquit by popular demand for the 3rd time\, concert pianist Frederick Moyer has entertained audiences in more than 44 countries- in such international venues as the Sydney Opera House\, Suntory Hall in Tokyo\, Windsor Castle\, with orchestras in London\, Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Brazil\, and Iceland- and across every region in the U.S. ranging from Boston\, NYC\, Baltimore and Washington D.C. to St. Louis\, Indianapolis\, and Milwaukee to Dallas\, Houston and Los Angeles. His performances exhibit an affinity for a wide variety of styles in both classical music and jazz\, and his relaxed and witty commentary from the stage engages audiences in the heart of the musical experience. \nMoyer’s wide ranging interests have resulted in the use of technology often with software he has written himself. An avid computer programmer and inventor with multiple patents\, Moyer has created innovative concerts that redefine traditional piano recitals. His MoyerCam gives the audience a view of the hands and keyboard from almost any seat in the audience. His USolo software enables him to play piano concertos in recital with orchestral accompaniment synchronized to his interpretations. \nHis performance plan includes works by Schumann\, Mozart\, Mendelssohn\, and a wide ranging selection of his (and our) jazz standards. Critical praise from the New York Times refers to his work as “First class…His playing is clean\, unmannered\, and full of ideas and intelligence.” \nListen to Fred at frederickmoyer.com.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FREDERICK MOYER PROGRAM\n\nSonata in D Major\, K. 311 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791\n\n Allegro con spirito 1756-1791\n\nSonata No. 3 in F Minor\, Op. 14 (1836) Robert Schumann 1810-1856\n\n Allegro \nScherzo (molto commodo)\nQuasi Variazioni (Andantino de Clara Wieck)\nPresto Possibile   (Original Finale movement – Deciphered by F. Moyer\, Paul E. Green\, Jr. – 2010)\n\n\n\n~INTERMISSION~ \n\n\n\n* Impromptu in E flat Major\, Op. 90\, No. 2Franz Schubert 1797-1828\n* Nocturne in D flat Major\, Op. 27\, No. 2Frederic Chopin 1810-1849\n* Three Preludes\, Op. 23 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943\n\nNo. 2 in B flat Major\nNo. 4 in D Major\nNo. 5 in G Minor\n\n\n\nJazz Selections — to be announced from the stage  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Barn Gallery is owned and administered by the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative\, a volunteer-run 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation. In collaboration with the Ogunquit Art Association\, these two organizations provide the opportunity for professional artists to exhibit their work to the public in a beautiful setting. \nOPA has performed multiple times at the Barn Gallery over the years\, and is proud and grateful to be offering this concert series in this lovely place of visual beauty and wonderful acoustics. Having lost the Dunaway Auditorium to the temporary relocation of the Police Department\, OPA is returning to Barn Gallery\, its home away from home. \nVisit Barn Gallery at barngallery.org URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/16th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-frederick-moyer-2/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Frederick-Moyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20190212T001310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150840Z UID:10000121-1560540600-1560540600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:25th Annual Chamber Music Festival ChoralArt Camerata DESCRIPTION:First performance in Ogunquit by Portland’s ChoralArt Camerata singers\, Robert Russell\, Music Director \n \nPortland’s ChoralArt Camerata\, under the direction of Robert Russell\, will make their first appearance in Ogunquit in the lovely setting of the Barn Gallery. A chamber chorus of about 15 singers\, Camerata features strong singers and independent musicians; their pristine\, resonant sound and utter musicality have garnered regional critical acclaim. Like all the ensembles under the ChoralArt umbrella\, Camerata is dedicated to advancing the tradition of artistic excellence in choral singing. Their program will be listed on this site in the near future. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Barn Gallery\, Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance.  Free parking at the Gallery. \nAt 15 singers\, Camerata is the smallest of the three ChoralArt ensembles (which also include ChoralArt Masterworks\, a symphonic chorus of 100 voices\, and ChoralArt Singers\, a mixed chorus of about 45 voices.)\nThe Camerata principally performs a cappella repertory from the Renaissance and Modern eras with occasional forays into ethnic and folk music. Favorite composers include Ēriks Ešenvalds\, Morten Lauridsen\, James MacMillan\, Paul Mealor\, David Conte\, and Stephen Paulus.\nMusic Director Robert Russell came to Portland in 1979 as professor of music at the University of Southern Maine and music director of ChoralArt. He concluded a 36-year tenure at USM in 2015 and was named professor emeritus. His time in Portland has been rich\, the highlights many. \n \nChoralArt has presented numerous concerts with orchestra\, many under the auspices of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The first Messiah performance in 1982 stunned us all\, as we filled City Hall Auditorium (Merrill’s predecessor) with patrons and glorious music.\nOther notable performances include Verdi’s Requiem\, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2\, Bach’s Mass in B Minor\, Bach’s Passion According to St. John\, Mendelssohn’s Elijah\, and the Brahms Requiem several times\, including a riveting performance in 1991 with distinguished guest conductor Robert Shaw. Several collaborative concerts with Portland Ballet\, including a dynamic Carmina Burana in 2003\, as well as concerts with Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ\, Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra\, USM Wind Ensemble\, Musica de Filia and many other regional organization stand out.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/25th-annual-chamber-music-festival-choralart-camerata/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ChoralArts-Camerata-Copy_Revised-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20180610T185233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150844Z UID:10000116-1536435000-1536435000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio - Andy Happel and Los Galactacos String Band DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS\n \n\n\nAndy Happel and his Los Galactacos String Band will be returning in triumph to the Barn Gallery on Saturday\, September 8th at 7:30 pm\, – after a dynamic performance there one year ago left the audience  dancing in the aisles and calling for more! \nPerforming a lively repertoire of songs\, from Chile to Canada\, Los Galactacos brings together an exotic combination of voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion. \nTheir program includes a variety of beautiful tunes and rousing rhythms from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \n \nFounded in summer 2015 on a lark to enjoy some late-summer soirees\, the Los Galactacos musical excursion was quickly underway with multi-instrumentalist Andy Happel as navigator. A true translator and ambassador of musical ideas\, Happel has infused his music with elegant fire – ranging from Capitol Records’ Thanks to Gravity and modern classical label PARMA\, to his work with the Don Campbell Band\, and his ever-expanding teaching studio. Joining him are Drew Wyman (Thanks to Gravity\, the Cozmik Zombies)\, Todd the Rocket (The Downbeat Renaissance)\, and Pete Witham (The Cozmik Zombies\, Spookie Daly Pride). \nAlready in their adventure\, the group has entertained at the Wentworth By The Sea Hotel (Newcastle\, NH)\, Wentworth Marina\, The Wentworth (Jackson\, NH)\, two seasons residency at El Rayo in Scarborough\, Maine\, and a collection of private residences. \n \nAndy Happel is a concert violinist and fiddler who has shared the stage with symphonies\, pop stars and country music luminaries alike. As bandleader for 90s rock group Thanks to Gravity\, Andy was signed to Capitol Records and EMI Publishing and toured extensively with the likes of Guster\, Train\, Matchbox 20 and the Dave Matthews Band. A successful run with country singer Don Campbell followed\, where he opened for country legends Willie Nelson\, Randy Travis\, George Jones and Charlie Daniels. He currently performs with classical improv group Aeterna Trio\, and several other independent projects. \nRecently\, he was nominated for a NATAS Boston/New England Emmy\, and performed O’Connor’s The Fiddle Concerto as guest soloist with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra \nAndy is also Lead Producer with new classical music label PARMA Recordings.   He has worked with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic\, the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and the New England String Quartet\, among others. \n\nTICKETS\n \n\n\n\nSERIES TICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-andy-happel-and-los-galactacos-string-band/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180907_CAP_Happel.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180615T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180615T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20180319T152813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150846Z UID:10000111-1529091000-1529091000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:DaPonte String Quartet DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n \n\n\nThe DaPonte String Quartet returns to Ogunquit Performing Arts after too long an absence.  Their performances for OPA go back to almost the beginning of the Chamber Music Festival in the mid-90’s.  A return engagement is long overdue\, and OPA together with the Barn Gallery are so happy to join together to welcome back the Quartet. \nOgunquit Performing Arts will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a Champagne Reception following this performance. \nThe DaPonte Program will include: \nFranz Josef Haydn(1732-1809) \nString Quartet in C Major\, Op 20\, No 2 \nBéla Bartók(1881-1945) \nString Quartet No. 3\, Sz. 85 \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791) \nMozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major K. 581 \nGuest artist: Thomas Hill\, clarinet \n————————————————————————————— \n \nNot long after forming in Philadelphia twenty-one years ago\, the DaPonte String Quartet surprised the musical world by moving from a cosmopolitan urban area to rural Maine. The DSQ had been — and continues to be — sought after to perform and teach all over the U.S. and around the world. They have appeared in France\, Scotland\, Canada\, and more than twenty American states. Their performances have been broadcast over nation-wide radio and television programs in both the United States and Canada. They have received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society\, the Music Teachers National Association\, Chamber Music America\, and have participated in several of the nation’s most prestigious concert series to rave reviews. Musicians and critics alike wondered\, why would the DSQ move to Maine\, where\, as the New York Times noted\, they create an experience “like watching the Celtics play in the local gym.” \nBut the members of the DaPonte String Quartet were proud to call Maine home\, and their relationship with mid-coast Maine remains a deeply rooted one. \nFerdinand “Dino” Liva (Violin)\nA violinist and conductor\, Dino comes from a musically prominent family in northeastern Pennsylvania. He began studying the violin at age seven with his father\, a noted conductor and teacher. Dino continued his education at the Peabody Conservatory with Berl Senofsky. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree\, he studied with Christine Dethier in New York and then attended Temple University\, working with Luis Biava\, where he graduated with a Master’s degree and a Professional Studies Certificate. He then spent four years as Assistant Professor of violin and chamber music at Wilkes University and as conductor of the University Orchestra. \nIn 1991\, Dino became one of the founding members of the DaPonte String Quartet and he moved full-time to Maine in 1996. Chamber music has remained his passion since those first rehearsals at the home of cellist Myles Jordan. The DSQ’s performances and workshops have been praised by members of the press and the quartet has worked with many important contemporary musicians\, including Marc Johnson\, Anton Kuerti\, Pamela Mia-Paul\, Rami Solomonov\, Tom Hill\, Mark Simons\, Jon Klibonoff\, Maria Bachmann\, Randall Hodgkinson\, and Marcus Thompson. Dino also continued to conduct and teach when he moved to Maine\, enriching the lives of young musicians throughout the Midcoast. \nLydia Forbes (Violin)\nLydia’s career has been guided by a singular intention — to delve as deeply as possible into the magic of great chamber music literature\, old and new. \nLydia has concertized throughout Europe and the U.K. with Ensemble L’Archibudelli\, Zephyr Kwartet\, Het Schoenberg Ensemble\, Sinfonietta Amsterdam\, Het Blazers Ensemble\, Osiris Piano Trio\, I Fiamminghi\, and Ensemble Explorations. During this time\, she recorded with some of the world’s most prominent labels; Sony Classical\, Harmonia Mundi\, CNM\, and for Vienna Modern Masters as soloist with the Czech Radio Philharmonic. She has also performed for festivals in Europe\, the U.K.\, Australia\, New Zealand\, and the U.S. Lydia has also served as concertmaster for Het Orkest van het Oosten in the Netherlands. \nMyles Jordan (Cello)\nMyles Jordan worked as a child actor for CBC Television and the National Film Board of Canada before taking up the cello. Inspired by the North American premiere of the second Shostakovich cello concerto and a Casals master class\, Myles asked for and received from his father a bright orange Hofner cello as a birthday present. He went on to train at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta\, the Britten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies in England\, and at Schloss Weikersheim in Germany. In 1981\, he won a Floyd S. Chalmers Foundation Award\, which enabled him to study at the Juilliard School\, and by 1983 he had earned two degrees there. From New York he moved to Philadelphia\, where he served as associate principal cellist of the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra\, completed a Doctor of Musical Arts\, and founded the DaPonte String Quartet. \nKirsten Monke (Viola)\nA native of Brunswick\, Maine\, Kirsten Monke received both her Masters and Bachelors degrees at Indiana University\, where she worked with Kim Kashkashian and Georges Janzer (of the Vegh Quartet and Grumiaux Trio). As a graduate fellow at UC Santa Barbara\, where she studied with Heiichiro Ohyama\, she was a founding member of the Anacapa String Quartet\, winners of the Fischoff competition as well as recipients of various honors from Chamber Music America. Following ten years of touring and concertizing with the ASQ\, Kirsten remained in Santa Barbara\, serving as Principal Violist of both the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. She also taught at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Westmont College\, and at chamber music workshops across the country. Kirsten can be heard in recordings with the Anacapa Quartet and the Santa Barbara Symphony\, as a soloist on a jazz CD featuring the music of Earl Stewart\, and as a member of the Gove County String Quartet\, a group that performs all original music.  Kirsten joined the DaPonte String Quartet in 2008. \n\nwww.dapontestringquartet.org \n\nTICKETS URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/daponte-string-quartet/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180615_CMF_DaPonte.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T193000 DTSTAMP:20260514T050652 CREATED:20170413T235940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150851Z UID:10000104-1505503800-1505503800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Capriccio Concert: Andy Happel and Los Galactacos DESCRIPTION:Los Galactacos\nMusic from the Americas \nFeaturing voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion. \nLos Galactacos is a musical group made of adventuring stringbenders\, strummers\, pickers and percussionists exploring an atlas of musical styles and songs. \nTheir repertoire is the standards of cultures from across the Americas\, and across the seas:  Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music;  Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nFounded in summer 2015 on a lark to enjoy some late-summer soirees\, the excursion was quickly underway with multi-instrumentalist Andy Happel as navigator.  A true translator and ambassador of musical ideas\, Happel has infused his music with elegant fire – ranging from Capitol Records’  Thanks to Gravity and modern classical label PARMA\, to his work with the Don Campbell Band\, and his ever-expanding teaching studio.  Joining him are Drew Wyman (Thanks to Gravity\, the Cozmik Zombies)\, Todd the Rocket (The Downbeat Renaissance)\, and Pete Witham (The Cozmik Zombies\, Spookie Daly Pride) along with a cast of guests. \nAlready in their adventure\, the group has entertained at the Wentworth By The Sea Hotel (Newcastle\, NH)\, Wentworth Marina\,  The Wentworth (Jackson\, NH)\, two seasons residency at El Rayo in Scarborough\, Maine\, and a collection of private residences.\n \n\n\nAndy Happel is a concert violinist and fiddler who has shared the stage with symphonies\, pop stars and country music luminaries alike. As bandleader for 90s rock group Thanks to Gravity\, Andy was signed to Capitol Records and EMI Publishing and toured extensively with the likes of Guster\, Train\, Matchbox 20 and the Dave Matthews Band. A successful run with country singer Don Campbell followed\, where he opened for country legends Willie Nelson\, Randy Travis\, George Jones and Charlie Daniels. He currently performs with classical improv group Aeterna Trio\, and several other independent projects. \nAndy is also Lead Producer with new classical music label PARMA Recordings. He has worked with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic\, the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and the New England String Quartet\, among others. \nThis concert will take place at the Barn Gallery\, 1 Bourne Lane\, Ogunquit.  TICKETS:  $18 in advance; $20 at the door; $5 Student URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/capriccio-concert-andy-happel-and-los-galactacos/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170908_CAP_Happel.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR