Deirdre McArdle | flute and Deiran Manning | piano

Daughter of Irish-American painter Patrick McArdle, Deirdre McArdle is the founder of The Winter Harbor Music Festival and served as the Executive Director of Harbor Music; The Artur Balsam Ensemble Classes for Piano and Strings, led by Edmund Battersby in Prospect Harbor for many memorable summers. Pulitzer Prize winning music critic and author, Tim Page of the New York Times, considers her “… a virtuosic flutist with an unusually full and lustrous tone.”

Deiran Manning has given performances across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Italy at notable venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the New York City Mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. Originally a Maine native, Mr. Manning spent his formative years in New York City at LaGuardia High School, eventually earning his undergraduate and masters degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.