Deiran Manning and Deirdre McArdle | Piano and Flute | Classical
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesDaughter 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 …
Maine Middle Eastern Ensemble
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesMaine Middle Eastern Ensemble performs folk, classical and Sufi music from the Turkish, Arabic, Armenian and Greek traditions. Led by multi-instrumentalist, Eric LaPerna, the group also features violinist, Michael Gallant; guitarist, Jeremey Zela; percussionists, Doug Andrews and Dorothy Barker, as well as other musicians from Maine’s vibrant Middle Eastern music community.
DaPonte String Quartet
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesNot long after forming in Philadelphia 31 years ago, the DaPonte String Quartet surprised the musical world by moving from a cosmopolitan urban area to rural Maine. The DSQ had been — and continues to be — sought after to perform and teach all over the U.S. and around the world. They have appeared in …
Tim Seeley | Singer-Songwriter
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesEssex Piano Trio | Classical
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesThe Essex Piano Trio will explore The Sounds of Vienna – Then and Now in its signature “Conversation among Friends” manner, which in this case resembles a musical meal of a “main course” surrounded by lighter “salad and dessert” courses. Franz Schubert’s four-movement Piano Trio in B flat major, op. 99 (1827-28) forms the centerpiece …
Mark Neslusan & Friends | Jazz
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesMark Neslusan, bass Mark is originally from Oxford, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor's of Music in composition from the University of Lowell in 1985. After attending graduate school at the University of Texas, Mark began teaching music at Bucksport in 1986. He's taught vocal and instrumental music at all levels K-12. Mark has performed both …
Bossov Ballet
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesThe Bossov Ballet Theatre at Maine Central Institute is both a performing company and an international pre-professional ballet school. The Bossov troupe includes dancers of many ages and levels of experience. Join us for a insider look at the Bossov troupe's program, highlighted by performance vignettes featuring Natalya Getman's ballet students. Natalya Getman, artistic …
John Gallagher and Friends
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesJohn Gallagher and friends will be playing interpretations of Jazz standards from the 1940’s to the present including compositions by Ellington and Strayhorn, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter, as well as Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. John Gallagher, bass John has been a fixture on the Eastern Maine jazz scene for several …
Celine Mogielnicki (Soprano) & Deiran Manning (Piano)
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesSOPRANO Celine Mogielnicki is a versatile emerging artist, hailed for her “delicious” (Opera Today) and “finely balanced" (NY Times) singing, “perfect in diction and phrasing...with powerful gradations of emotions” (Millbrook Independent). In the 2022/2023 season she joins Opera Baltimore for Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw (Governess cover), the Long Island Choral Society as soprano …
Robert Shetterly | Americans Who Tell the Truth | Donations Gratefully Accepted
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesRobert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life - from the written word to the image. Also, during this time, he was active in Civil …