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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.

Originally from Atlanta, GA, Ahreum Han graduated with a bachelor degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Ken Cowan. In May 2007, she graduated with an artist diploma from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music where she studied as a full scholarship student of Alan Morrison.

Ms. Han has received top prizes from numerous competitions including the undergraduate division of Westminster Choir College Scholarship Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship Competition, the Music Teachers National Association(MTNA) National Young Artist Performance Competition, the John Rodland Memorial Church Music Scholarship Competition, the Albert Schweitzer organ competition ,and the West Chester University Organ Competition. Her live performance of the MTNA Competition winner concert was featured on the radio show PIPEDREAMS from Amercan Public Media.

Ms. Han has performed with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Philadelphia Kimmel Center, the University of Pennsylvania Orchestra at Irvine Auditorium, as well as solo performances at the Kimmel Center widely-acclaimed Cooper Memorial Organ, Ocean Grove Auditorium, St. Bartholomew Church in New York City, St. Philip Cathedral in Atlanta, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary and the Princeton University Chapel. She was featured at the Young Virtuosi Festival held at Wesleyan University, CT and Colorado State University, CO in 2006. In June 2007, she was a featured artist at the Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists held in Atlanta, GA.

She was the Principal Organist at First Presbyterian Church in West Chester, PA. She is currently attending the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for a Master of Music degree studying with Thomas Murray.

The opening Preview and evening Concert will take place at Christ Church, Episcopal, Main Street, North Conway on the Casavant free-standing, two manual tracker organ.

Organ Recital Preview - 10 a.m.

Concert ~ 7:30 p.m.

Christ Church, Episcopal, North Conway
Organist, Ahreum Han
Casavant Tracker Organ

YOUNG ARTIST, MATTHEW WOODWARD
to perform:

Sarabanda and Giga from the Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Lento and Allegro assai from the Sonata no. 3 in C major, BWV 1005

Matthew,13 years old, played violin since the age of 4. He studied with Linda Laderach at Mount Holyoke College until this past year. Matthew is currently a student of Mary Lou Churchill. He attends the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston where he performs in chamber groups and orchestra. Besides performance, Matthew's other passion is composition and he has been composing music since he was 5 years old. He currently studies with Jerry Noble at Smith College. His music has been performed at Greenwood Music Camp (Junior Division) and Yellow Barn Young Artists= Program. Recently, he received a Young Composer=s award from the public radio show, "From the Top" for his AFive Vignettes for Piano Trio@ he composed last summer. Part of the vignettes will be performed on "From the Top=s" radio and TV shows this upcoming April and May by piano trios made up of young musicians from both the Juilliard and San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Schools. Besides music, Matthew loves cooking, gardening, reading, art, skiing, biking and spending time with his family.

WILLIAM THORPE, BASS

William Thorpe received his musical training at the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, New England Conservatory (M.M.), Boston Conservatory (B.Mus), and the Lichtenberg Voice Institute in Germany. He has performed as soloist with the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Boston Concert Opera, Boston Civic Symphony, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Bethlehem Music Festival, Westport Music Festival, Yuma Arizona Heritage Festival, and the Missouri River Music Festival, as well as on CBS Television, National Public Radio, and on more than a hundred regional radio and television broadcasts across the country. In 1993, he represented the United States in series of concerts in China sponsored by the United Nations, including two performances in Shanghai for an audience of 36,000, and at the Beijing Concert Hall with members of the Beijing Philharmonic.

Timothy Neill Johnson, tenor, received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Cal State Los Angeles and continued his studies at the Conservatory of Music in Antwerpen, Belgium. His focuses have included that of Baroque and Classical concert and chamber music, Art Song and music of the 20th century. The works of J.S. Bach, the oratorios of Handel, the masses of Mozart, and the songs of Schumann, Fauré, Vaughan Williams and Britten highlight his repertoire. He presently is on the faculty at Bowdoin College and in the jazz Department at the University of Maine in Augusta.

RACHEL HAUGE, MEZZO-SOPRANO

Mezzo-soprano Rachel Hauge is from Corvallis, Oregon. This summer Ms. Hauge joins Chautauqua Opera as a Studio Artist, performing the role of Jennie Hildebrand in Street Scene. This fall she will join Connecticut Opera as a Resident Artist for the 2008-09 season. Ms. Hauge holds degrees from Boston University and the Boston Conservatory. Opera experience includes appearances with Opera del West, Boston University Opera Theater, Crittenden Summer Workshop, Boston Conservatory Opera, Bel Canto Northwest and Oregon State University Opera. Featured solo engagements include the Cantata Singers Recital Series, Metrowest Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Conservatory Orchestra and Southborough Pilgrim Church. Ms. Hauge is a student of Penelope Bitzas.

CHRISTINE TEETERS, SOPRANO

Soprano Christine Teeters began her vocal studies at the University of Central Oklahoma in 1998 and moved to Boston in 2003 for graduate work at The Boston Conservatory, where she received her Masters in Opera in 2005 under the tutelage of William Cotton, Sanford Sylvan and Kirsten Cairns. Ms. Teeters was the Boston NATS 1st place winner-Division IV in 2007 and 3rd Place winner-Division V in 2008. Ms. Teeters is also one of the original members of the successful new Boston opera company Boston Opera Collaborative. She began as Artistic Director and now serves on the Board as Member at Large. Ms. Teeters studies voice with Douglas Kevin Wilson. This summer Ms. Teeters will sing her first Queen of the Night with BOC in Mozart's Die Zauberflote.

Described as “…a rare artist; one who is a consummate musician and brilliant virtuso.” Has appeared as a guest artist of the Philadelphia area’s top musical organizations; performed the premiere of several solo compositions for trumpet and has been a featured soloist at International Brass Conferences. Honors: Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Delaware; Master of Music degree (majoring in music performance & literature) from the Eastman School of Music; released a solo
CD: Barbara Prugh, Trumpet Artisty.

MARY BASTONI-REBMANN, SOPRANO

Mary studied voice at the University of Lowell. Now, a resident of Fryeburg, Maine, she is enrolled in the Bachelor of Music degree program at the University of Southern Maine pursuing a major in voice with Ellen Chickering. As a USM freshman she was chosen to play the Queen of the Night role in the University's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Mary is equally comfortable with a wide variety of musical genres from the serious classics to musical theatre. She has been heard in many leading roles in Mt. Washington Valley Theater Company & Resort Players.

FREDERIC BEDNARZ, VIOLIN

Canadian violinist Frédéric Bednarz regularly gives recitals throughout North Amercia, Central Amercia and Europe. He has played in New York's Weill Hall and Merkin Hall, in Boston, in Kansas City and also in Montréal, Québec, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

A prize winner in many competitions including the Prix d'Europe, the Marseille International Competition and the Val Tidone International Competition, Mr. Bednarz was heard as soloist with the Ottawa and Montreal Chamber Orchestras, the Montreal Civic Orchestra, Ensemble America in New York, OSSIA, the Atlantic Symphony and the Longy Chamber Orchestra.

Chamber music performances include appearences with Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester, Julius Baker, Oleh Krysa, Malcolm Lowe, and the Ying Quartet. He was a founding member of the Yanvar Trio. Bednarz was featured on radio broadcasts with CBC and NPR, and recorded works by Tchaikovski for the XXI Canadian Label.

Frederic Bednarz holds a B.M. from the Harid Conservatory where he worked with Sergiu Schwartz and a M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied under Oleh Krysa. He also worked with Victor Tretiakov in France. In addition to solo and chamber music performances, Frederic was concertmaster of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra for 6 years. He recently joined the Molinari String Quartet, based in Montreal, Canada.

Margaret Helfer-Herlehy (oboe) received her training at the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College where she remained as Artist-in-Residence for five-year tenure. Her principal teachers include Lois Wann and Arno Mariotti. As a chamber musician, she performs with Sospiri Ensemble and in 2003 premiered works for oboe, bassoon and piano at the International Double Reed Conference in Greensboro, NC. She also performs with Infinities Chamber Ensemble as a member of Massachusetts Young Audiences presenting Young People’s Concerts throughout New England. Currently, Margaret is Principal Oboist with the Hanover Chamber Orchestra and the Granite State Symphony. In addition, she has performed with the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra, as soloist with the New England String Ensemble and the Berkshire Opera among other orchestras throughout the northeast. Margaret maintains an active teaching schedule. She is lecturer of oboe at the University of New Hampshire, Director of Winds of the Wellesley Composers Conference and founder and Artistic Director of Music da Camera Chamber Music Workshops since 1992. performed with the Portland (ME) Symphony Orchestra, as soloist with the New England String Ensemble and the Berkshire Opera among other orchestras throughout the northeast. Margaret maintains an active teaching schedule. She is lecturer of oboe at the University of New Hampshire, Director of Winds of the Wellesley Composers Conference and founder and Artistic Director of Music da Camera Chamber Music Workshops since 1992.

Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, awarded BAEF and Fulbright grants, his musicological articles have appeared in American and European journals. Founding Artistic Director of Newport Baroque Orchestra (www.newportbaroque.org), and he serves as Director of Music at First Church in Boston, where he leads the professional 12-voice choir and can be heard every Sunday on WERS (88.9 FM) in Boston. In 2006, he was appointed director of the a cappella choral ensemble Sine Nomine (Fall River, MA).