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June 26 - August 7

The Bowdoin International Music Festival brings renowned artist instructors, performers, soloists, and gifted pre-professional classical musicians from around the world to beautiful Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine each summer for six weeks of intensive chamber music study, collaboration, and performance.

Musicians from groups such as the New York Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra, the Ying and Shanghai quartets, and major conservatories including Juilliard, Eastman, Indiana, Shanghai, and London’s Royal College collaborate with our summer study participants and present more than 80 concerts each season in seven concert series.

2010 concert series to feature Schumann and Chopin

Artistic Director Lewis Kaplan says "2010 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of both Schumann and Chopin. In addition to the wonderful piano concerto and chamber works of Schumann we will hear many of his great piano works as well as those of Chopin. Romanticism at its best!" Programs will be posted in early March.

2009 - A summer full of great concerts

Our 2009 season offered outstanding concerts, featuring the Ying and Shanghai quartets, cellists Steve Doane and Yehuda Hanani, the amazing 17 year-old pianist, Peng Peng, and many other great artists. Check out the reviews in our News section, or look back on the programs on our Concert pages.

George Crumb presents world premiere

Pulitzer prize winning composer George Crumb returned to Bowdoin at the end of July for a series of concerts, including the world premiere of his latest work, Sun and Shadow. Portland Press Herald critic Christopher Hyde attended the concert and liked what he heard.