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David Ying & Phillip Ying, Artistic Directors
Many thanks to the Sponsors
of our concert series
RE-INVENTION
Acadia Trust
Baker Newman Noyes
Bath Savings Trust Co.
The Brunswick Hotel and Tavern
The Brunswick Inn
Down East Magazine
The Gamper Family
HM Payson
The Highlands
L.L. Bean
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
Norton Insurance—Financial
Portland Press Herald/
Maine Sunday Telegram
Sebasco Harbor Resort
Thornton Oaks
The Times Record
“The Festival experience gives more
than a simple introduction, it is a
platform to bond with extraordinary gifted artists, reconnect and
strengthen older friendships, and
chart new goals together.”
— Kaplan Fellow ’15
52nd Season
June 25–August 6, 2016
Scholarship Benefit Dinner
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Bowdoin College
P
lans and preparations are well
underway for our 52nd season.
Last summer we celebrated the
close-knit and nurturing community
that has always been a defining feature
of the Festival. With this year’s theme
of Re-Invention, we move toward the
future.
Classical music is an art made alive
by continual re-invention in composition, performance, and teaching. It also
characterizes the process that keeps our
Festival growing, vital, and dynamic.
Re-Invention is essential to all music
making.
Our 2016 program of music will be
re-invented by our outstanding artist
faculty while our students re-invent
the artistic traditions taught to them.
Re-Invention provides an opportunity
for audiences, students, and faculty to
reflect on the elements that keep the
Festival meaningful and fresh. That is
the power of Re-Invention.
— David Ying & Phillip Ying
welcome Katherine Lehman
executive director
W
e are delighted to announce
Katherine Lehman as the
new Executive Director
of the Bowdoin International Music
Festival. For the past six years Katherine
has served as the Director of the
Sewanee Summer Music Festival
(SSMF), a teaching festival held on
the campus of the University of the
South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She
has a long record of successful and
innovative leadership in an organization
remarkably similar to our Festival.
Following Katherine’s appointment
as SSMF Director in 2010 she led the
Festival out of a decade of artistic and
financial distress to fiscal security, a
greater quality and diversity of student
body than ever before, and ultimately
to national recognition. During her
first year as Director SSMF went from a
$150,000 operating deficit to an $80,000
surplus. She has since increased student
enrollment to 200, nearly tripled the
annual operating budget, expanded
student scholarships, and raised the
caliber of students. She has also demonstrated an innovative ability to connect
the music of the Festival with various
communities in new and effective ways.
in connecting music with the community. We believe that her deep personal
knowledge of and passion for music
will be a valuable asset as we move our
Festival forward into the future.
Katherine studied music at
the Eastman School of Music, the
University of Kansas (BA—Violin
Performance, Phi Beta Kappa), and
Northwestern University (Master of
Music—Performer’s Certificate). She
previously served as a member of the
Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the
South Bend Symphony Orchestra.
As an accomplished violinist and
member of the music faculty at the
University of the South, Katherine is an
avid advocate for chamber music and
the mentoring of young musicians. Her
principal focus as Director has been to
tap into the creativity of talented faculty
and students and to provide the resources and structures that enable them
to flourish. She brings the potential to
connect the artistic with the operational
aspects of Bowdoin International Music
Festival.
Katherine has spent time with David
Ying and Phillip Ying and they are
particularly excited about her interest
Festival Receives Matching Challenge
A
long-time supporter of the Festival
has announced a matching grant
of $10,000. The anonymous grant will
match dollar for dollar any new or
increased donations to the Festival, up
to $10,000.
The donor said, “There is a new
energy at the Festival, an increased
vitality. I am happy to support Phillip
and David in their vision for the
Festival.” The funds will go to support
scholarships for Festival participants.
Mark Your Calendar
The 2016 Gamper Festival
of Contemporary Music
July 28, 30, and 31.
“During this weekend
the whole Festival shines.
Performers and composers
from the faculty and student
body collaborate to present
and illuminate the music
of our time. Audiences are
treated to three evenings
of cutting-edge works and
premieres which could be the
classics of tomorrow.”
— Derek Bermel
Festival Faculty and Alumni;
Artistic Director
American Composers
Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
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Introducing a new 2016
String Quartet Fellowship
T
he Festival is pleased to present
a new String Quartet Fellowship
for pre-formed ensembles.
“There are more string quartets forming
now than at any other time in history,
and there is more music written for the
string quartet than any other ensemble,”
according to Artistic Director David
Ying. He adds, “I recently read that this
isn’t the Golden Age of string quartets,
but the Platinum. I’d have to agree.”
David calls the string quartet, “one of
the great chamber music ensembles.”
The String Quartet Fellowship will
follow the format of our immensely
popular Kaplan Fellowships, which were
created in 2014 in celebration of the
Festival’s 50th anniversary season. This
new program is geared toward mature,
accomplished players at the beginning
of significant careers in music, with a
focus on the study and performance of
string quartet literature. Fellows will
bring to the Festival multiple years of
experience playing and growing as an
ensemble, and will have developed into
a well-polished quartet. Unlike other
programs–where students are assigned
to a single faculty studio, Fellows are
considered “students of the Festival.”
They collaborate with faculty to create
an individualized program of significant training with artist instructors and
chamber music coaches.
a life in music
www.bowdoinfestival.org Our student concerts are at an
all-time high in terms of quality and
attendance. String Quartet Fellows will
add polished performances of their
own, as they will arrive as a pre-formed,
cohesive ensemble. “We have great empathy for them,” David says. “They are
on the cusp of doing important things.
We want to provide this opportunity for
them to grow, develop, and learn.” In an
effort to make this program accessible
to all applicants, Fellows are provided
with room, board, and full tuition.
During their six-week residency
Fellows will enjoy intensive chamber
music study, be featured performers in
our Monday Showcase concert series,
and will have significant exposure
within the Festival and throughout the
community. The quartert will study
alongside the Kaplan Fellows with
renowned artist instructors, guest artists, soloists, and other pre-professional
classical musicians from around the
world. Their mentors will include
the Ying, Jupiter, Ariel, and Shanghai
Quartets, and faculty from the New
York Philharmonic, major conservatories such as Eastman, Indiana, Juilliard,
New England Conservatory, Peabody,
and London’s Royal College.
Bowdoin International
Music Festival
Board of Trustees
chairman
Rol Fessenden
vice chairman
Jan Williams
Treasurer
Peter Griffin
Secretary
Elliot Rosen
Patricia Brown
Margy Burroughs
Maryan Chapin
Beatrice Francais
Dr. Bernard Givertz
Sam Hayward
Victoria Miele
James T. Morgan
Herbert Paris
Dr. Hugh Phelps
Norman Rapkin, Esq.
William A. Rogers, Jr., Esq.
Claudia Spies
Dominique van de Stadt
Richard Stephenson
Katharine J. Watson
David Ying
Phillip Ying
through study with world-class artists …”
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he 2015
Kaplan Fellows were a
remarkable group of
talented musicians.
Their enthusiasm
for the Festival and
their eagerness to
make music together
and with the faculty
helped form a closeknit bond that even
distance could not
break. On their own initiative, they
created a Kaplan Fellows Concert in
New York City on December 7, a first
in Festival history.
Trustee Beatrice Francais located
the perfect venue for the concert, the
acoustically wonderful Church of
Christ and St. Stephen around the corner from Lincoln Center. The Festival’s
office staff sent out invitations and publicized the concert via its vast mailing
list, trustees encouraged their friends to
attend, and the Fellows took advantage
of their social media contacts to spread
the word.
Challenging and demanding in
every respect, the concert was a marvel.
The audience heard Tchaikovsky and
Lavignac four-hand piano selections
of dazzling technicality and bristling
fireworks; the unbelievably challenging,
exquisitely-played 40-minute Schubert
Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”;
Barber’s Summer Music, Op. 31 which
featured flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and
bassoon; and Martinu’s Nonet No.2,
H. 374, a drop-dead work of intense
collaboration. The finale was a double
bonus in more ways than one. The
2015 Kaplan Fellow in Composition,
Michael-Thomas Foumai, composed a
piece specifically for this concert and
flew in from Hawaii to introduce it
to the audience. His world premiere
Concerto Grosso was a rousing success,
affording each of the fourteen players a
chance to take center stage.
In the audience were Festival
Co-founder Lewis Kaplan and
current Artistic Director Phillip
Ying; trustees Elliot Rosen, Katharine
Watson, Beatrice Francais, and Margy
Burroughs; and Sacha Peiser, the
Festival’s Music Office Director. The
fourteen Kaplan Fellows were Zuolian
Liu, flute; Kristin Leitterman, oboe;
Chung Yoo, clarinet; Josh Thompson,
horn; Dillon Meacham, bassoon; Haeji
Kim and Seohee Min, violins; Emily
Brandenburg, viola; Minji Kim and
Nan-Cheng Chen, cellos; Isac Ryu,
double bass; Fantee Jones, Joon Yoon,
and Hsin-I Huang, piano.
Following the concert guests walked
to Beatrice Francais’ lovely apartment
for a delightful reception-reunion overlooking Central Park. The event was a
perfect bridge between last year’s season
and the 2016 Festival.
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Faculty News
Violinist Janet
Sung performed
a Haydn Violin
Concerto in
C Major as well
as the world
premiere of
Inscription/Transformation for Violin and Orchestra by
composer, Kenneth Hesketh, with the
Goettingen Symphonie Orchester in
Germany on Jan. 29. Hesketh was a visiting composer at the Festival in 2013.
Under the auspices of Portland Ovations, the Shanghai String Quartet will
appear with
pipa virtuoso
Wu Man at
Hannaford
Hall March 31
for a “Night in
Ancient and
New China.”
Festival audiences will be pleased to see
the quartet return to Maine again this
summer, performing in our Monday
Showcase series on July 18.
The cellist duo of Meta Weiss and
David Requiro recently produced their
debut album of classical and contempo-
rary compositions at Studio Trilogy in
San Francisco. The new album includes:
J. S. Bach’s Chaconne (from the violin
Partita in D Minor arranged for two
cellos); Niccolo Paganini’s Variations
on One String on a theme by Rossini
(arranged for two cellos); Giovanni Sollima’s The Shooting, Il Pino, Il Tasso, and
Le Sequoia;
Jean-Paul
Borremanne’s A
Due Celli,
and Joan
Jeanrenaud’s
Oulipo.
Quartets
Jupiter Quartet
W
e are happy to introduce
the string quartets for
this summer’s Monday
Showcase concerts. Last year’s series
was consistenly sold out, and this
year’s promises to present an equally
brilliant line-up. During the season
we will hear the Shanghai, the Ariel,
the Jupiter, and of course our own
resident Ying Quartet. In addition to
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performing, these groups will coach
our talented students in chamber
music and offer master classes. The
Shanghai currently serves as Quartetin-Residence at the John J. Cali School
of Music at Montclair State University
in New Jersey and is Ensemble-inResidence with the Shanghai Symphony
Orchestra. The Ariel is the Quartetin-Residence at the University of
Cincinnati while the Jupiter serves in
the same position at the University
of Illinois. The Yings are likewise
ensconced at the Eastman School of
Music, and quartet members David
Ying and Phillip Ying are the Festival’s
Artistic Directors. Look for an exciting
line up of wonderful music from all of
these highly respected groups.
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ing to sold-out houses.
Nan-Cheng
Chen, (KF ’14)
cello, recently
toured with
his New Asia
Chamber Music
Society to Taiwan, perform-
Xiaoxiao Du,
(’15) violin, gave
a successful senior recital and
earned a B.M
with honors
from University of Missouri
School of Music this past December.
William McGregor, (’13
& ’15) double
bass, won the
Juilliard PreCollege Open
Concerto
Competition
and performed
with the PCO (Pre-College Orchestra)
in February at Sharp Theater at Lincoln
Center.
Joon Yoon, (KF
’14 & ’15) piano,
performed two
concerts in Hawaii
with Carmit
Zori, violin; Joel
Smirnoff, viola;
Peter Wiley, cello;
and Festival faculty
member Kurt Muroki, double bass.
Yoon played Ravel’s La Valse and joined
the ensemble to perform Schubert’s
Trout Quintet.
Amir Siraj,
(’15) piano, has
won the New
England Philharmonic’s 21st
annual Young
Artist Competition. Siraj will
perform Franz
Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the
Philharmonic’s annual family concert,
Musical Characters, on December 13,
2016 at the Tsai Performance Center.
Hsin-I Huang,
(KF ’14), piano,
performed as
piano soloist
for the Sinfonia de Amor
concert tour
with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Macau.
The concerts were broadcast by TVB
Hong Kong and Teledifusão de Macau.
He played to a sold out house of 4,000
seats.
Nathaniel
Pierce, (KF
’14) cello, is the
2015 winner
of the Indiana University Concerto
Competition.
Nathaniel is Artistic Director of the
Anchorage Chamber Music Festival in
Anchorage, Alaska and a member of the
Koinonia Trio in Ann Arbor.
J o i n U s f o r A n E v e n i n g o f M usic
Wednesday April 6, 2016
Frank Huang, David Ying and Phillip Ying, and the renowned
Dover Quartet to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Bowdoin
International Music Festival.
The Century Association, New York.
To reserve your seat call Kippy Rudy at 207-373-1440
or email at [email protected]
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Statement of Activities:
Fiscal Year End October 31, 2015
Earned Income
Student Revenue—Tuition, room, board, fees
Concert Revenue—Tickets, sponsorships, advertising
Other
Total Earned Income
$1,164,754
$159,766
$106,697
$1,431,216
Contributed Income
Individual and board gifts
Grants, foundations, corporations Events Total Contributions Total Income $216,396
$177,815
$56,918
$451,129
$1,882,345
Expense
Scholarships Student Expense Artistic personnel Program staff and outside vendors Administrative staff, taxes, and benefits Operating expenses Total Expense Net Income
$314,900
$391,369
$486,435
$322,356
$127,047
$210,249
$1,852,356
$29,989
2015 Statement of Financial Position
Assets
Total current assets
Investments
Pledges receivable Net property and equipment Total assets $274,969
$2,509,853
$184,682
$21,891
$2,991,395
Liabilities and Net Assets
Total current liabilities Long term obligations $99,240
$30,000
Net Assets
Unrestricted net assets Temporarily restricted net assets Permanently restricted net assets Total Net Assets Total liabilities and net assets $1,346,741
$140,459
$1,374,955
$2,862,155
$2,991,395
Staff Directory
Bowdoin International Music Festival
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(207) 373-1400
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Artistic Directors
David Ying
Phillip Ying
Executive Director
Katherine Lehman
[email protected]
(207) 373-1444
Director of Development
Kippy Rudy
[email protected]
(207) 373-1440
Director of Admissions
Daniel Nitsch
[email protected]
(207) 373-1400
Financial and Human Resources
Officer
Brittan Pistole
[email protected]
(207) 373-1414
PR and Marketing Coordinator
Casey Oakes
[email protected]
(207) 373-1400
Administrative Assistant and
Data Manager
Nancy Simmons
[email protected]
(207) 373-1400
est artistic stan
dards”
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Lorna Flynn
(207) 373-1400
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“The days here are so wonderful;
fresh air, great music, and the
beautiful town. Everything here
makes it the greatest way to spend
your summer time.”
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