2023 BAR HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL
Calendar of Events

Allison Kiger, Associate Director
Francis Fortier, Artistic Director

Thursday, April 25
Spring Benefit Musicale
A Springtime Fusion of Classical Music and Jazz – Christopher Johnson, Allison Kiger, and friends. Music by George Gershwin and Claude Bolling
Info and Purchase

Wednesday, July 10
Pianist Veronica O’Brien (Festival debut)
Info and Purchase

Friday, July 12
Tea Concert
Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano and Steven Crawford, piano
Info and Purchase

Tuesday, July 16
Bar Harbor Festival Opera Theatre:
Sondheim Tribute Revue – Celine Mogielnicki, soprano, Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano, Omar Najmi, tenor, Isaac Bray, baritone with Steven Crawford, piano
Info and Purchase

Friday, July 19
Best of Beloved Italian Opera
Music by Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, and more – Steven Crawford pianist and former Met Opera conductor leads a program showcasing the exciting and talented young singers of the Bar Harbor Music Festival
Info and Purchase

Saturday, July 20
Young Audience Concert on Great Cranberry Island. Poems and Music, Dance and Sing with Bob Barta, Banjo and John Clark, clarinet and saxophone of the Wolverine Jazz Band. FREE to children of all ages. Made possible by Ned Swain, Devenish Wines, and the Margaret Burnham Charitable Trust
FREE

Sunday, July 21
Wolverine Jazz Band
At the Criterion
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Wednesday, July 24
Janey & Friends Chamber Music
Violinist Janey Choi is joined by friends, Amadi Azikiwe (viola), Kirsten Jermé (cello), and Vadim Serebryany (piano) in a chamber music program of Beethoven’s Archduke Trio, a collection of Spiritual arrangements by Hailstork, and Dvorak’s Piano Quartet.
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Friday, July 26
Appalachian Spring
For 13 instruments with the Acadia Dance Festival
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Monday, July 29
Sarah Joyce Cooper
Soprano with chamber orchestra – music by Bach, Haydn, Resphighi, and Jessie Montgomery
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Tuesday, July 30
Young Audience Concert “Rags to Riches” Flute, viola, and cello: Music by Haydn and Chevalier Saint-Georges. Audiences hear light classical chamber music and learn the incredible story of an escaped slave leaving the Caribbean and becoming a composer in the court of Marie-Antoinette, told by a flutist from France. Also rags and melodies by American composer Scott Joplin.
FREE

Wednesday July 31
Eric Wyrick
Music for violin and piano by Beethoven, Debussy, Grieg, Coleridge-Taylor, and Kreisler Violin recital with Candace Chien, piano
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Saturday, August 3
The “Margaret Mills New Composers Concert”
At the College of the Atlantic – full day seminar by Maine composers and concert “Folk elements to the fore – Bartok and his Legacy” Eric Thomas, clarinet, Nicholas Pappone, violin, Candace Chien, piano, with world premieres by Diana M. Rodriguez and Skip La Plante
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Wednesday August 7th
Christopher Johnson
Piano recital “Celebrating a Feast of Chopin and the 100th Anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue”
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Sunday, October 13
Allison Kiger, flute and Christopher Johnson, Indigenous Peoples’ Weekend in Bar Harbor – Storm and Sea – Undine Sonata by Reinecke, Beethoven Pastorale Symphony Storm and Joy movements, plus works by Debussy and Takemitsu
Info and Purchase

TICKETS & INFORMATION

Tickets on Sale: beginning April 15, 2023
Order tickets online: www.barharbormusicfestival.org
email: info@barharbormusicfestival.org

 Tickets $30 • Students $15
“Pops”, Jazz & Gala $45
Opera $85 $55 & $40
Season Subscription $400

(Get the best seats in the house and save 15% off single ticket price.)
All Seats Reserved • Sorry, no refunds or exchanges
Pre-Concert Buffet Dinner (optional – includes tax & gratuity) $50
Motorcoach Tours Welcome • Special Group Rates

The Bar Harbor Music Festival
741 West End Ave., Suite 4-B, New York, NY 10025-6222
Telephone: 212-222-1026

Bar Harbor Office (after June 1)
The Rodick Building, 59 Cottage St., Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1800
Telephone: 207-288-5744