School of Performing Arts

UMaine preps for 50th annual Maine Youth Summer Music Camp

Editor’s note: Story updated July 7. The Division of Music in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts is celebrating its 50th annual Maine Summer Youth Music Camp this July, returning to its traditional in-person, residential experience after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The camp, led by Christopher White, UMaine director of bands, […]

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BDN reviews “The Moors” at Cyrus Pavilion Theater

The Bangor Daily News reviewed playwright Jen Silverman’s 90-minute, one-act play “The Moors,” presented this weekend by True North Theatre at the Cyrus Pavilion at the University of Maine. Lauren Billings, who plays the free-spirited younger sister Huldey, will begin her third year as a theater major with a minor in dance at the University […]

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Emily Dunlap: The UMaine music education experience

Emily Dunlap from Old Town, Maine is a rising fourth-year music education major with an instrumental concentration. She is also in the Honors College. Dunlap has received the Thomas E. Lynch Honors Fellowship, been recognized as a James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior and is an alumni member of the 2021 Macy’s Great American Alumni Marching […]

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Ellsworth American features Birch concert

The Ellsworth American shared information about a concert by Kevin Birch, music faculty member at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor. A historical instrument specialist, Birch will perform on the clavichord, a precursor to the piano played largely from the […]

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BDN shares ‘Sound of Silence’ performance available online

The Bangor Daily News shared that “Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by […]

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‘Sounds from Silence’ available online

“Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online.  In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by the Nazis. He was joined in […]

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Ellsworth American highlights Manning performance

The Ellsworth American shared information about a performance by pianist Deiran Manning, faculty at the University of Maine School for Performing Arts, at 7 p.m. Friday, May 6, at Hammond Hall. Manning will perform with soprano Celine Mogielnick for a recital called “Sirens and Sailors — Songs of Love and the Sea,” featuring a range […]

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Kryszak’s work highlighted in music reviews, Moving Classics TV

Alan Kryszak, a member of the University of Maine at Machias creative arts faculty, has produced his third solo album, “Murmur Rations,” reviewed in the Machias Valley News Observer and Bangor Daily News. The European venue Moving Classics TV published a Q&A with Kryszak about his 35-year career as a composer and guitarist, including a […]

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