SEASON 3 July 24-31 2025

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SEASON 3 July 24-31 2025 *

Season 3 celebrates American 20th-century milestones and considers their legacies today with two programs: Shaker Loops and Voice of the Whale.

Shaker Loops features John Adams’ seminal string septet and the music of returning violinist-composer Michelle Barzel Ross.

with Michelle Ross, Robert Anemone, Lilit Hartunian, Tanner Menees, and Aaron Wolff

Voice of the Whale features George Crumb’s theatrical trio for three masked players as well as new chamber music for piano, violin, cello, bass, and flute influenced by Crumb and Adams.

featuring renowned Maine-raised flutist Roberta Michel

SEASON 3 TICKETS

Shaker Loops

Thursday, July 24, 7:30 PM
St Mary’s by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor

Friday, July 25, 7:30 PM
The Waldo Theatre, Waldoboro

Voice of the Whale

Wednesday, July 30, 6:30 PM
The Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor

Thursday, July 31, 7:30 PM
St. Mary’s by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor

PAST SEASONS

  • Works by young American composers reflecting on community dynamics, spaces, and practices, featuring a world premiere for strings, clarinet, cimbalom and piano by Maine composer Conrad Winslow and music by Carlos Simon, inti figgis-vizueta, and Gabriella Smith.

    Wednesday July 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm / Stonington Opera House, Stonington

    Thursday July 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor

    Sunday July 21, 2024 at 7:30 pm / Waldo Theater, Waldoboro

  • Music inspired by the poetry of Petrarch, Dorothy Parker and Anna Akhmatova, featuring Suzanne Farrin’s corpo di terra, Sarah Gibson’s The Boys are There, and Sir John Tavener’s Akhmatova Songs.

    Wednesday July 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm / Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor

    Thursday July 11, 2024 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor

  • featuring Brett Dean’s “Voices of Angels,” Stephen Hartke’s “King of the Sun,” Libby Larsen’s “Up, Where the Air Gets Thin,” and a world premiere by DownEast New Music pianist Danny Holt.

    Friday July 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm / Blue Hill Congregational Church, Blue Hill

    Saturday July 15, 2023 at 3:30 pm / Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor

  • featuring Caroline Shaw’s in manus tuas, Mikhail Johnson “Evil's Peak,” György Kurtág’s “Scenes from a Novel,” and Jessie Montgomery’s Duo for violin and cello.

    Friday July 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s Church, Northeast Harbor

    Saturday July 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm / Blue Hill Congregational Church, Blue Hill