Welcome to the 58th Season of the Bar Harbor Music Festival.

"A glorious summer of music!"

Schedule of Events

June 30, 2024

Free Young Audience Concert on Great Cranberry Island. Sponsor Ned Swain and Devenish Wines. Stories, Poems, and Music. Willie was Different by Norman Rockwell and Seymour Barab, Sail Away by Langston Hughes and Ashley Bryan, Portraits of Langston by Valerie Coleman. Allison Kiger, flute, Eric Thomas, clarinet, Christina Spurling, piano.

July 8, 2024

7:30pm: Isaac Bray

Free Isaac Bray with the Bar Harbor Town Band on the Village Green featuring Rossini's most popular aria "Largo al factotum" from the Bar Harbor of Seville (and classic cartoons!)

Isaac Bray has performed numerous opera roles and other solo engagements with musical organizations around the United States including Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera San Antonio, Charlottesville Opera, the Bangor Symphony, and Opera in the Pines. Notable opera roles include Marcello in La Bohème, the title role in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, John Proctor in The Crucible, Le DancaÏre in Carmen, and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti. Bray has performed solo engagements in New England with Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bagaduce Chorale, Acadia Choral Society, and Blue Hill Bach. Bray was a member of the Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Studio, the Bonfils-Stanton Apprentice Program with Central City Opera, and the apprentice artist program with Natchez Festival of Music. He is a graduate of the Boston University Opera Institute, The Boston Conservatory, and Abilene Christian University. Mr. Bray teaches on the voice faculty at the University of Maine and also serves on the board of the Maine chapter of NATS.

July 10, 2024

7:30pm: Veronica O'Brien

Pianist Veronica O'Brien (Festival debut) Music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gershwin, and Scriabin - at St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.

Location:
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 12, 2024

4PM:
Oceanview Tea Concert - Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano and Steven Crawford, piano at the Bar Harbor Historical Society. With donated tea and pastries.

Location:
Bar Harbor Historical Society
127 West St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 16, 2024

7:30PM
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 at the College of the Atlantic.

Location:
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 19, 2024

6PM
Pre-concert reception with Steven Crawford, Former conductor, Metropolitan Opera

7:30PM
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 at the Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor.

Celine Mogielnicki, soprano, Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano, Omar Najmi, tenor, and Isaac Bray, baritone.

Location:
Mt Desert, ME 04660

July 20, 2024

10:30am
Free Young Audience Concert at Jesup Library. Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano and Christina Spurling. Spirituals and more.

12:00 pm
Free Young Audience Concert on Great Cranberry Island - Dance and sing along with Bob Barta, banjo and John Clark, clarinet and saxophone of the Wolverine Jazz Band.

July 21, 2024

7:30PM
"The Wolverine Jazz Band" brings down the house at the Criterion Theatre with jazz, swing, and Dixieland - an audience favorite for over 15 years!

Location:
1932 Criterion Theatre
35 Cottage St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 24, 2024

7:30PM
Janey 'n' Friends
Janey Choi, violin with Amadi Azikiwe, viola, Kirsten Jermé, cello, and Vadim Serebryany, piano. Beethoven's "Archduke Trio" and chamber music by Dvorak and Hailstork. St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.

Location:
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 25, 2024

1PM
Celebration of Life for Francis Fortier (1937-2024)

Location:
Kebo Valley Golf Course

July 26, 2024

7:30PM
Nimbus Dance, Copland, Brahms, Liszt, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 3
Chamber Orchestra with Nimbus Dance conducted by American Prize Winner and former Monteux School faculty David Alexander Rahbee. This remarkable collaboration between the Bar Harbor Music Festival and the Acadia Dance Festival features Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, conducted by David Alexander Rahbee with Candace Chien, piano, and the acclaimed Nimbus Dance in Samuel Pott's choreographic interpretation at the Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor.

Location:
1932 Criterion Theatre
35 Cottage St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 29, 2024

6PM
"After Hours" Event with the BH Chamber of Commerce including complimentary concert tickets for Chamber attendees.

Sarah Joyce Cooper soprano with chamber orchestra, David Alexander Rahbee conductor - music by Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, Grieg Varen, and spirituals by Jessie Montgomery and more, plus Mozart Symphony no. 37 and Antony and Cleopatra suite by Kurt Atterberg Atterberg at the Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor.

Location:
1932 Criterion Theatre
35 Cottage St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

July 30, 2024

Free Young Audience Concert at Great Cranberry Island, sponsored by Ned Swain and Devenish Wines. "Riches to Rags" Music for flute, violin, and cello by Scott Joplin, FJ Haydn and French-African court composer Joseph Boulogne.

July 31, 2024

Eric Wyrick
Violin recital with Candace Chien, piano. Music by Beethoven, Grieg, Debussy, Coleridge-Taylor, and Fritz Kreisler. St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.

Location:
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

August 3, 2024

7:30PM
The "Margaret Mills New Composers 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.

"Ideas from Maine"
Full Day Seminar by Maine Composers
Free to the public at the College of the Atlantic

Location:
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

August 7, 2024

7:30PM
Christopher Johnson
Piano recital "Celebrating a Feast of Chopin and the 100th Anniversary of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue" St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.

Location:
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

September 21, 2024

4PM
Millbrook Benefit
Maestro Jeffrey Ellenberger conducts the Festival String Orchestra in music of Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Doppler, and Elgar.

Location:
St Peter's Church
696 Deep Hollow Rd, Millbrook, NY 12545

October 13, 2024

7:30PM
Allison Kiger, flute and Christopher Johnson, piano.
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. St. Saviour's Episcopal Church.

Location:
St. Saviour's Episcopal Church
41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

Date:
June 30 - October 13, 2024

Location:
Various Venues

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