This free concert is hosted by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) and sponsored by the Blue Hill Concert Association.

About "The Story of Ferdinand"

Halcyon's fourth annual family performance features Munro Leaf's beloved children's book, The Story of Ferdinand. With narration by Luke Fatora, Halcyon will sweep you up on a musical tour of the string quartet that culminates in a musical performance of Ferdinand combining music, story, and illustration. Featuring classical favorites, folk tunes, pop songs, and nostalgic tunes from childhood, we'll get everyone clapping and snapping along!

Halcyon Musicians:

Josie Davis & Sophie Davis, violin

Colin Wheatley, viola

Julia Henderson, cello

Luke Fatora, narrator

About Halcyon:

Halcyon is a nonprofit organization, string quartet, and artist collective based in Midcoast Maine. As musicians, artists, filmmakers, animators, advocates, and storytellers, we strive to share our love of music in ways that foster connection, community, vibrancy, joy, warmth, and accessibility. Our programs are built on partnerships with local community organizations and folks from all walks of life. We collaborate with scientists, artists, students, actors, composers, poets, and educators to create performances that invite audiences to feel, celebrate, reflect, and respond collectively to the world around them. Halcyon's upcoming season includes collaborations with Maine's Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma, composer Nathan Davis, vocalists Sarah Tuttle and Aaren Rivard, Arctic scientist and climate advocate Susana Hancock, and students and educators at three local high schools. For more information about our upcoming performances and projects, visit: halcyonstringquartet.org.

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Shelter Music Maine Trio to play the next Midday Concert @ 1:00 at Ellsworth Community Music Institute on October 10.

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, October 10 with Shelter Music Maine Trio; Katherine Liccardo, violin; Matt Consul, viola and mandolin; and Marisa Solomon, cello.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from the City of Ellsworth and supported in part by a grant from the Onion Foundation. Admission is free to the public.

Violinist Katherine Liccardo, a native New Yorker, began her violin and piano studies at age 3. Katherine’s passion for music started at home, growing up in a household of music teachers and performers. At the age of 18, she made her Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium solo debut as the winner of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. Katherine is a trained Suzuki teacher and runs an in person and online studio with students ranging from Maine to Australia. She is the associate director of Vigorous Tenderness, an immersive outdoor concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new and experimental sounds.

Matt Consul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance and a Master’s in Contemporary Improvisation on mandolin and violin from New England Conservatory of Music. He is a member of Portland Symphony Orchestra and serves as a substitute musician with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. Matt regularly presents educational workshops for kids in Portland public elementary schools through the Portland Symphony’s Explorers program and helps bring chamber music to homeless shelters and other sheltering environments with Shelter Music Maine. Active in a variety of musical circles outside the classical world, Matt is a member of jazz composer/bandleader Miho Hazama’s Grammy-nominated ensemble m_unit and was formerly a member of the alt folk outfit the Laura Grill Band. In addition to performing, Matt maintains a small private studio teaching viola and violin.

Cellist Marisa Solomon received performance degrees from the Oberlin College and San Francisco Conservatories, studying with Norman Fischer and Bonnie Hampton respectively. She is the founder of Shelter Music Maine, director of the Kneisel Hall Program for Maine Students, adjunct faculty at the University of Maine, a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and a 2023 recipient of the Director’s Award from the Collins Center for the Arts. Festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, New York String Seminar, Kneisel Hall, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, SpoletoUSA, Festival de due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, and the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado.

Future concerts in the series include; November 21 - Noreen Silver, cello; Phillip Silver, piano; Anna Maria Baeza, clarinet; Emily Stodola, violin/viola, and December 12 - Danny Holt, piano, and Molly Gebrian, viola.

Have a question? Please write via our Contact Form.

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers an Instrument Petting Zoo from 10:00 am-12:00 pm on Saturday, October 4, 2025 in partnership with the Ellsworth Public Library. Offered as part of Heart of Ellsworth’s annual Art of Ellsworth celebration, ECMI Faculty and ECMI Student Ambassadors will give string instrument and piano demonstrations, allowing children to touch, play, and experience instruments in person.

The Instrument Petting Zoo will be held at the Ellsworth Public Library at 20 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The event is sponsored by the Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI). Admission is free to the public.

Children must be accompanied by an adult for the entire event. Registration is not required. Questions may be sent via our Contact Form.

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers an Instrument Petting Zoo from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at the Northeast Harbor Library. This interactive musical instrument demonstration, with ECMI Faculty and ECMI Student Ambassadors, allows children to touch, play, and experience instruments in person.

The Instrument Petting Zoo will be held at 1 Joy Road in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The event is sponsored by the Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) in collaboration with organizational partner, Northeast Harbor Library. Admission is free to the public.

Children must be accompanied by an adult for the entire event.

Supported in part by a grant from the Onion Foundation.

Questions may be sent via our Contact Form.

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) is opening the 2025-2026 year with its first Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, September 12 performed by Peregrine Road; Karen Axelrod, piano and accordion, and Rachel Bell, accordion.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from the City of Ellsworth and supported in part by a grant from the Onion Foundation. Admission is free to the public.

Peregrine Road plays captivating acoustic music that occupies a sweet spot somewhere between chamber music and folk music, with complex arrangements and lush textures alongside raw energy and multi-cultural influences. Karen Axelrod and Rachel Bell have quickly become known together as a powerhouse duo capable of a huge variety of styles, in demand throughout North America and beyond for concerts, workshops, festivals, English country dances, contra dances, and other events.

Their music is rooted in Celtic, English, French, Quebecois, New England, and Appalachian traditions while at the same time being infused with the excitement of new compositions and dynamic improvisation. Audience members frequently remark on Peregrine Road's exquisite musicianship and mastery of their instruments, as well as their outrageous humor and ability to connect with listeners of all ages and walks of life.

Karen Axelrod’s piano playing combines expressiveness, energy, lyricism and power. She is equally at home with styles ranging from traditional folk melodies to passionate tango to old world French musette waltz to English Country dance tunes and much more. She left behind classical music over 35 years ago, and has happily settled into her musical home….somewhere between folk, classical and improvisation. Her playing is soulful yet touched with humor and whimsy.

When she is not playing concerts, Karen is one of the busiest and most sought after traditional dance musicians. Her elegant and rich piano playing and her colorful, gorgeous accordion playing are enlivened by her off-beat humor. Karen plays with a number of bands for traditional dance events as well as concerts. Her bands include Alchemy, Foxfire, Peregrine Road and 3rd String Trio. Based in Brattleboro, VT, she tours extensively throughout the United States, Canada and abroad at dances, festivals, concerts, camps private parties and other events.

Rachel Bell is an accordion player based in Brattleboro, Vermont. This performer, tunesmith, and teacher’s playing spans an enormous range of emotion, from nuanced and sensitive to exhilarating and powerful, pushing the boundaries of what is expected from an accordion. Rachel draws her inspiration from Celtic, French, English, and Québécois traditions, creating scores of innovative tunes while deeply respecting traditional melodies. She thrives on collaborative musical work, especially with her bands Eloise & Co., Peregrine Road, Alchemy, and Old World Charm School.

In demand throughout North America and abroad for concerts, contra dances, French BalFolk dances, English country dances, workshops, and festivals, Rachel is a musical adventurer at heart.

Have a question? Please write via our Contact Form.

The Fall Semester will begin on Monday, September 8th, 2025. Returning students will receive a registration link from administration.

New students should complete an Inquiry Form and will be contacted for next steps.

Questions can be submitted via our Contact Form.

Thank you!

Registration for the fall semester opens on August 11, 2025, for the 2025-2026 school year.

Returning students will receive a registration link from administration.

New students should complete an Inquiry Form and will be contacted for next steps.

Questions can be submitted via our Contact Form.

Thank you!

More Information Coming Soon

Clare Monfredo, cello; Edward Kass, bass; and Conrad Winslow, piano to play the next Midday Concert @ 1:00 at Ellsworth Community Music Institute on May 23

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, May 23 with Clare Monfredo, cello; Edward Kass, bass; and Conrad Winslow, piano.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

Cellist Clare Monfredo grew up in Seal Harbor, Maine, and has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader all over the world, collaborating with a diverse array of notable artists, from Patricia Kopatchinskaja to Jon Batiste, to groups such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, A Far Cry, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Festival appearances include Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Lucerne Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, and Kurt Weill Fest. Clare holds a BA in English from Yale University and a masters of music degree from the Shepherd School at Rice University where she received the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Graduate Arts Award. She also attended the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship. Clare lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches at Hunter College. She is co-founder and co-artistic director of DownEast New Music.

Bassist Edward Kass performs frequently with new music groups such as Ensemble Dal Niente and Callithumpian Consort, and has appeared at festivals such as Tanglewood Music Center, Lucerne Festival, and Pacific Music Festival. He is currently a Lucerne Festival Contemporary Leader, serving as a curator for the Lucerne Forward Festival and coach at the Festival Academy. Since 2016, he has performed with soprano Nina Guo as Departure Duo, which performs, commissions and researches music written for soprano and double bass. Recognized by Chamber Music America for commissioning, recent duo performances include recitals at Spoleto Festival USA, Yellow Barn, Omaha Under the Radar, and KM28. Kass completed his studies at New England Conservatory, where he received the John Cage Award for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Music Performance. Kass resides in Boston and is co-founder and co-artistic director of DownEast New Music.

Conrad Winslow is a composer and pianist whose musical forms are bold, legible and emotionally direct. His music combines precipitous edges with subtle shifts of syntax. He draws influence from architects and playwrights to structure pieces like places to inhabit. Raised in Homer, Alaska, he first learned to make a world from scratch by watching his parents build a log cabin home in the woods. His work has been called “compelling” (New York Times) and described as a “scenic, boisterous and bumpy ride” (Albany Times Union). Winslow's instrumental music has been commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, Carnegie Hall, and the American Composers Orchestra, among many others. He holds a Master’s Degree in Composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, an M.M. degree in film scoring from NYU, where he studied with Justin Dello Joio, and an Honors A.B. degree in Music from Rollins College, where he studied with Daniel Crozier.

For more information, please complete our Contact Form.

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Piano Duo Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt to play the next Midday Concert @ 1:00 at Ellsworth Community Music Institute on April 25

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, April 25 with pianists Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt playing a 4-hand piano program.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

Pianists Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt team up for beloved classics for piano duo by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, and more. Coonrod recently retired from almost five decades of teaching at Interlochen Arts Academy, where he shaped generations of young pianists. Holt recently relocated from Southern California to Downeast Maine, and was Coonrod's student more than 25 years ago. He is thrilled to welcome his former teacher to Maine for concerts this spring.

Dr. Michael Coonrod is a retired piano faculty member from the Interlochen Center for the Arts where he tutored classical piano students for 46 years. During that time, he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. He has had an extensive performing and teaching career in several countries. He performed 20th Century piano music at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw Poland and participated in the Amalfi Music Festival in Maiori, Italy for five summers. He gave several master classes at the FaceArt Piano School in Shanghai China. He has five compact disc recordings to his credit–two of which are devoted to the music of Franz Schubert. Visit his website at: michaelcoonrod.com In his free time he is building a diorama of his home town of Missoula, Montana with an HO scale train layout.

Called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich, and hailed as one of the “local heroes” of the Los Angeles music scene (LAcitybeat.com), pianist Danny Holt performs around the globe in concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl), clubs (Joe’s Pub, The Blue Whale, Copenhagen Jazzhouse) art galleries (MASS MoCA, Hammer Museum), churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen. His recorded catalog includes the recent solo album “Piano Music of Mike Garson” and other solo, chamber, and orchestral releases on the Innova Recordings label, pfMENTUM, New World Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Acis Productions, and L’st records. After spending most of the past two decades in Southern California, Holt recently relocated to East Machias, where he enjoys being surrounded by natural beauty, and a slower pace of life. http://www.dannyholt.net

The final concert of the 2024-2025 Midday Concert series will be held on May 23 with Clare Monfredo, cello; Edward Kass, bass; Conrad Winslow, piano.

For more information, please complete our Contact Form.

We are excited to invite our youth ECMI students to participate in a new opportunity! ECMI is hosting a Works-In-Progress Workshop on April 10th from 3:30-5:15. 

Join fellow ECMI Students for a special class hosted by Nancy Colter. This new Works-in-Progress Workshop is specially designed to provide students an additional opportunity to share what they're practicing with peers. Pieces (or movements of longer works) are not expected to be fully performance-ready but should be played all the way through (not just a small section). Nancy Colter (and possibly other faculty) will listen to what has been accomplished so far and make helpful suggestions to make performing easier and more fun! String players will perform without an accompanist for this session, and all students MUST REGISTER their names and pieces to participate or observe. All students are welcome!

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April 10th 2025 Works-In-Progress Workshop

Students Age 6-12 | 3:30-4:15

Students Ages 12-18 | 4:30-5:15

Due to incoming storm all classes have been cancelled today, M. March 24, after 1:00pm.

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, March 14 with the Baroque Orchestra of Maine (BOOM) featuring Heidi Powell and Sylvia Schwartz, baroque violins; Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, baroque harp.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

Baroque Orchestra of Maine's mission is to present dynamic world class period instrument performances to the rural Downeast Maine area featuring local artists. The group strives to engage and educate a wide audience about historically informed performance by presenting concerts in accessible, eclectic, non-traditional concert venues. 

To learn more about each musician, please visit: baroqueorchestraofmaine.org/

Future concerts in the 2024-2025 Midday Concert series will be held on April 25 - Danny Holt and Michael Coonrod, 4-hand piano program; and on May 23 - Clare Monfredo, cello; Conrad Winslow, piano; Edward Kass, bass.

For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org. 

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) is thrilled to announce a performance by the  renowned DaPonte String Quartet (DSQ) featuring the exquisite works of Franz Joseph Haydn and Erich Wolfgang Korngold on March 1 at The Barn at Woodlawn. The concert begins at 3:30pm.

The DSQ will grace audiences in various venues throughout the state, bringing their unique artistry and passion for chamber music to both traditional and contemporary settings. The quartet will captivate listeners with Haydn’s elegant quartet, known for its wit and depth, alongside the lush, romantic style of Korngold’s second quartet that beautifully blends melodic richness and effervescence. 

Performances are scheduled in cities including Portland, Brunswick, and Ellsworth, among others, showcasing the quartet's dedication to engaging communities through the power of music. Ellsworth Community Music Institute is proud to be a Featured Partner for the Woodlawn performance at 19 Black House Drive in Ellsworth, Maine.

Tickets are $25 each and available for purchase through the DaPonte String Quartet website. For more information and tickets, visit dapontequartet.org.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet in D Op. 20 # 4 (1772): Written at age forty, the mature composer Franz Joseph Haydn’s six string quartets Op. 20 collectively stand as a critically-important development in the history of music. Op. 20 #4 is written in a style reminiscent of central-European Zigeuner, or Gypsy, folksongs and dances, which Haydn loved and incorporated into many of his chamber works, exactly as Johannes Brahms did a century later. ~Myles Jordan

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): String Quartet #2 in E-flat Major Op. 26 (1933) “In music history there have been but three superlative child prodigies, each of whom far surpassed seasoned masters in their intuitive grasp of the art. They were: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.” The E-flat Major Op. 26 is the second of Korngold’s three ingenious string quartets. Its general character is as witty and effervescent as might be expected, to the point that it seems to stand as a counterpart to the puckish Viennese theatrical character Hanswurst, a model of sophisticated élan and the inspiration for many Viennese “personalities,” over more than a century. ~Myles Jordan

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, February 28 with guitarist Hugh Bowden.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

In Bowden’s words, “I got interested in guitar when I was about 11 years old and heard Chet Atkins on the radio. I told my folks that I wanted to do that and they bought me a Stella guitar with a blue and white body that arrived for Christmas that year. Over the following years, I taught myself the rudiments of playing because there were no people near our small town of Brooklin that gave guitar lessons. Like so many young musicians, I formed a rock 'n' roll band after I got out of the U.S. Army at age 21 and we managed to get gigs around the eastern Maine area. By my 30s, I had learned the Chet Atkins style of fingerpicking though never approaching the levels that he achieved. But I began developing fingerstyle arrangements of songs that I liked and started to compose my own instrumental pieces. For my entire musical life, Chet Atkins was always my primary influence and remains so to this day. I also got involved in jazz guitar in my 40s and enjoyed a nearly 20-year membership in a jazz quintet called A-Train that performed all over the state and did several concerts on Maine Public Radio.”

Future concerts in the 2024-2025 concert series will be held on March 14 - Heidi Powell and members of the Baroque Orchestra of Maine; on April 25 - Danny Holt and Michael Coonrod, 4-hand piano program; and on May 23 - Clare Monfredo, cello and Conrad Winslow, piano.

For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org. 

**WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WINTER STORM.**

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) hosts the Blue Hill Concert Association’s (BHCA) educational engagement program on Monday, February 17 at 10:00am featuring the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet - Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; and Camden Shaw, cello.

All ages are welcome and encouraged to experience this unique community program.

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine and “the next Guarneri Quartet” by the Chicago Tribune, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its honors include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and Quartet in Residence at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. 

The Dover Quartet’s 2024-25 season includes premiere performances throughout North America of newly commissioned works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a leading composer of American Indian classical music; collaborative performances with preeminent artists that include pianists Michelle Cann, Marc-André Hamelin, and Haochen Zhang; and tours to Europe and Asia. Recent collaborators of the sought-after ensemble include Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Ray Chen, Anthony McGill, Edgar Meyer, the Pavel Haas Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and Davóne Tines. The quartet has also recently premiered works by Mason Bates, Steven Mackey, Marc Neikrug, and Chris Rogerson.

The Dover Quartet’s GRAMMY-nominated recordings include its highly acclaimed three-volume recording, Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Cedille Records), which was hailed as “meticulously balanced, technically clean-as-a-whistle and intonationally immaculate” (The Strad), and The Schumann Quartets (Azica Records). 

Each year, the Blue Hill Concert Association provides four educational engagement programs in conjunction with their concerts. Generally, these programs take place in the Blue Hill Peninsula schools, though at times the chamber groups will provide open rehearsals, workshops, or master classes in a community setting. Visit bluehillconcertassociation.org/educational-outreach/ to learn more about this special program.

This program is free to the public and held at the Moore Community Center Atrium at 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org.

To learn more about the musicians, visit doverquartet.com

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on January 31 with Duo Emma Stanley and Tyler Stanley. The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater at 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

Holiday Community Concert with the Harborside Trio

Featuring: Cherie Magnello, Soprano, Carl Wrubel, Baritone &William Merrill, Piano

Enjoy a festive holiday concert during the lunch hour at the Moore Community Center with the Harborside Trio! We will gather in the atrium from 12:00-1:00pm and the public is welcome.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a bag lunch or sign up for lunch ($5) through Friends in Action. Lunch orders must be pre-registered by calling 207-664-6016 (option 2) before Noon on Tu. 12/3/24.

Moore Community Center, 5 General Moore Way, Ellsworth, ME

Thursday December 5, 2024

12-1pm

Free to the Public

The concert is co-hosted by Ellsworth Community Music Institute and Friends in Action and there is no fee to attend.

Noreen and Phillip Silver bring a wealth of performing experience to their highly regarded partnership. They have an enviable international reputation for chamber music playing of the highest caliber. The Duo, founded when Noreen and Phillip were students at the New England Conservatory of Music, has received accolades and acclaim from appreciative audiences and critics throughout Europe, Israel, the United States, Scandinavia, and the Czech Republic. Their imaginative programming, in which lesser-known works are given exposure alongside established repertoire favorites, has proven very popular and made them much in demand.

Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Instrument Petting Zoo from 10:00 am-12:00 pm on Saturday, October 5th,2024 at the Ellsworth Public Library. Offered as part of Heart of Ellsworth’s annual Art of Ellsworth celebration, this interactive musical instrument demonstration features the cello, violin, piano, and guitar. ECMI faculty will offer the demonstrations, allowing young children 4 and up to touch, play, and experience instruments in person.

The Instrument Petting Zoo will be held at the Ellsworth Public Library at 20 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The event is sponsored by the Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI). Admission is free to the public.

Ellsworth Community Music Institute to host Trailblazers for a Midday Concert on October 4, 2024, at 1:00 PM at the Moore Community Center in the theater. Midday Concerts are Free and open to the public.

Trailblazers-shines a spotlight on music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Henriëtte Bosmans, Ethel Smyth, and Dora Pejačević–women who were unabashedly themselves, defying the social expectations of their time against the backdrop of world wars and a global pandemic. Originally written for cello and piano, all three sonatas are presented here in new arrangements for viola and piano, marking a significant contribution to the viola repertoire. All three sonatas are featured on the new album, Trailblazers, from Acis Productions.