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Annually:
last part of August
~ North Conway, NH
& Fryeburg, ME
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Introducing
Our Conductors & Special Guests
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Vocal
and Instrumental Soloists
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ROBERT
LEHMANN
WMMA MUSIC DIRECTOR, FESTIVAL CONDUCTOR & SOLOIST
Robert
Lehmann was born and raised in Mexico City.
He is a graduate of the University of the Pacific and the
Eastman School of Music, and a 2008 recipient of a doctorate
in violin performance from Boston University.
He is Director of String Studies, Associate Professor of
Music and Artist Faculty in violin and viola at the University
of Southern Maine School of Music.
He
Conducts the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, the Portland
Youth Symphony Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic,
the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and the White Mountain Bach
Festival.
He has been a frequent guest conductor of the Portland Symphony
Orchestra as well as other professional orchestras around
the world, and is in great demand as a violinist, teacher,
adjudicator and conductor.
WMMA
is proud to welcome Dr. Lehmann back is Festival Director
for the fourth season.
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PAUL
MCGOVERN
WMMA CHORAL CONDUCTOR
WMMA is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul McGovern,
will be preparing the Festival Chorus for the 2011 Bach Festival.
Dr. McGovern has over 20 years teaching experience, both in
K-12 schools and at the college level.
Throughout his career, he has conducted school and community
choral ensembles of all types and ages. Currently he serves
as chorus master for PORTopera and as conductor of the Southern
Maine Children's Choir at USM. Previously, he has served as
music director and conductor of the UMF Community Chorus and
the Granite State Choral Society. Paul continues to sing with
the Choral Art Society’s chamber choir, Camerata.
Currently he teaches music at Portland High School. He has taught
music and directed choirs at Cape Elizabeth High School, Saint
Joseph’s College, SUNY-Potsdam, and Georgia Southern University.
Dr. McGovern received his Bachelor’s degree from Queens
College/CUNY and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral
Conducting from Indiana University. Before graduate school,
he taught music in the public schools in the greater Philadelphia,
PA area for six years.
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Ray
Cornils is the Municipal Organist for the City of Portland
and is also Minister of Music at Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick,
Maine. A member of the music faculties of Bowdoin College
and the University of Southern Maine, he also teaches organ,
harpsichord and related classes. Mr. Cornils graduated from
the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the New England
Conservatory of Music. Ray has concertized throughout the
United States and in Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Ecuador
and New Zealand. He has performed at the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine in New York City, the National Cathedral
in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia’s famed Wanamaker
Organ. He has been a featured recitalist for conventions
of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical
Society. He performs regularly with the Portland Symphony
and Musica Tricinia, a group of two trumpets and organ.
Concert
~ Sunday afternoon, August 21 at 4 PM
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Glazer
Frank
Glazer has had a long and distinguished career as a soloist,
recording artist, chamber musician and teacher. Critics from
all over the world have called him "a master musician as
well as a virtuoso" and have praised his performances as
"formidable", as well as "extraordinary",
and "phenomenal". Mr. Glazer studied with the great
pianist and Beethoven interpreter Artur Schnabel in Berlin where
he met the composer Arnold Schoenberg with whom he also studied.
His New York debut when he was 21 was a notable success, as
was his first appearance three years later with a major symphony
orchestra, the Boston Symphony led by Serge Koussevitsky. Since
then he has played in 24 countries with the world's finest
orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago
Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, and many of the finest ensembles
abroad. Mr. Glazer was a founding member of the Eastman Quartet
and, as a chamber musician, has performed with the Fine Arts
Quartet, the Cleveland Quartet, and the New York Woodwind Quintet,
among others. He was on the faculty of the Eastman School of
Music for 15 years before coming to Maine. He is Artist-in-Residence
at Bates College, and continues to perform, conduct master classes
and lecture frequently in Maine, throughout the United States
and abroad.
The
94-year-old Glazer, a pianist of international renown,
has been an artist in residence at Bates College, Maine since
1980.
In a era whose pianists often strive for the gloss of mechanical
precision and a big sound, Glazer instead makes all else secondary
to the music's own message.
"He has thought everything through and tried to get at
the core of what the music is about. Everything he does is about
that," says colleague James Parakilas, a pianist himself
and the James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts
at Bates. "And he has a wonderful way of making a line
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