Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, December 16th with members of the Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM). The concert will feature Heidi Powell, baroque violin; Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, baroque harp; and Max Treitler, cello.
The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater at 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. MASKS ARE SUGGESTED. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public. Click here for current COVID policy.
The concert program will include works by Bach, Kapsberger, Bertali and Vivaldi.
Artistic Director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine, Heidi Powell is a baroque violin specialist and has appeared as soloist with the New York Collegium, Rebel, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Early Music New York, New York State Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Washington Bach Consort. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Indiana University and an Artist Diploma in Violin from Oberlin Conservatory. Heidi's prize winning performance in the American Bach Soloists International Bach Violin Competition was heralded by the New York Times as 'supremely confident and powerful'. Heidi has taught violin and chamber music at Oberlin Conservatory, Kneisel Hall, Creative Spark and George Stevens Academy. She is a Suzuki violin teaching specialist and teaches privately in the downeast area. She is the founder and director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine. When she is not organizing concerts, performing and teaching, Heidi is spending time with her husband, Ryuta Ishimura, and their children as well as exploring & enjoying nature, hiking, swimming, cooking organic foods and doing anything creative.
Phoebe Durand-McDonnell grew up on Mount Desert Island on the coast of Maine and began studying harp at age 10 with Liza Rey Butler, and later attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. At age 17, Phoebe received a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award Scholarship and was featured on the popular radio show From The Top. Phoebe earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory, majoring in harp with acclaimed soloist Yolanda Kondonassis. She attended Hudební Lahůdky in the Czech Republic to study baroque harp and improvisation with historical harpist Dr. Maria Cleary. Phoebe received a 2019 Fulbright Research grant to study with Dr. Cleary at the Haute École de Musique Genève (HEM) in Geneva, Switzerland. Phoebe received her first MA in interprétation spécialisée, pratique sde instruments historiques in 2021 from HEM, with intensive study on medieval and renaissance single- and double-rowed harps, Spanish arpa de dos ordenes, baroque arpa doppia, and the harpe organisée, or single-action pedal harp. In the fall of 2022, Phoebe began an MA in musicology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Max Treitler's musical life was shaped almost entirely by time spent in this area. Over the course of seven summers spent at Kneisel Hall, he was the grateful student of George Sopkin and Barbara Stein Mallow as well as receiving chamber music instruction from Seymour Lipkin and Artur Balsam. After a prolonged and painful series of years spent in the wilds of New York's freelance jungle, he finally saw wisdom, and returned to the Blue Hill Peninsula, where he now happily messes about in the areas of overlap between wine, food and music.
For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org.
Future concerts in the 2022-2023 series will be held on February 10 - Richard Hsu, violin; Kevin Morse, guitar; and Aija Kante Cahn, cello | March 17 - Duo Mundi - Gulimina Mahamuti and George Lopez, piano duo | April 14 - 45th Parallel - Chris Nemeth, violin; Laura Gallucci, viola; and Timothy Garrett, cello
Left to right: Heidi Powell, baroque violin; Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, baroque harp and Max Treitler, cello