IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ATTENDEES: The concert will be held in person at the Moore Community Center, 125 State Street, Ellsworth, Maine. Due to COVID-19 considerations the audience will be limited to 50 members and seats will be filled first come, first served. Masks will be optional.
ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next live Midday Concert @ 1:00 on April 1. The concert will be performed by Baroque Orchestra of Maine musicians, Heidi Powell & Chris Nemeth, baroque violins and Daniel Pyle, harpsichord. The trio will play works by Corelli, Marula and Bach.
Sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI), with funding from the Onion Foundation and the City of Ellsworth, the concert is FREE to the public.
The next Midday Concert @ 1:00 is scheduled for May 23 with Luka Fatora, violin and George Lopez, piano.
For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org.
Left to right: Heidi Powell, Chris Nemeth and Daniel Pyle of the Baroque Orchestra of Maine.
About the musicians:
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.
Chris Nemeth began his formal study of the violin at the age of eight. His principal teachers have included Michael Neumann, Madeline Schatz, Andrew Dawes, Ruben Gonzalez, and David Taylor. Chris has performed with the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, the Monterey Music Festival Orchestra, the Montovani Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the New Philharmonic of Chicago, the Lyric Opera Center for Young Artists, and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.In addition to playing the violin, Chris is a founding partner of HarborHouse Partners, a management consulting firm focused on maximizing the realized value of mid-market and early-stage companies across a broad range of industries. He recently relocated from Chicago to Sedgwick, ME with his wife (Tara), 2 girls (Marie, Vivienne), and their dog (Zola).
Dr. Daniel S. Pyle directs the Acadia Choral Society and Harmonie Universelle, a Baroque ensemble that has recorded and toured in the US and Europe. In 2018, he conducted Handel’s Messiah for the Blue Hill Bach Festival. He has performed with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the faculties of the University of Kansas, Louisiana State University, and Clayton State University where he taught organ, harpsichord, and music history. He also taught Master classes in Atlanta and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. He is the organist and Music Director for St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor. Dr. Pyle has forty-five years of experience as a church musician in Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist congregations, and has been an instructor in church music at the Candler School of Theology. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music from the University of Alabama and a Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He has also trained at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and with Kenneth Gilbert at the Accademia Musical Chigiana.