STUDENT ALERTS

• This recent New York Times article cites Bowdoin College Dining Service as among the very best in the nation. While our students do not have the benefit of the full academic year menu, they are offered a wide selection of high quality foods prepared by the same service.
• Click here for faculty changes from the printed brochure.
• The application deadline for the Bowdoin Festival's 2008 student composition competition has passed. Please check for application information for the 2009 competition in the fall of 2008.
• We are looking for qualified students from Maine! The John M. Dunlap Jr. scholarship fund exists to provide opportunities to Maine residents to attend the festival. For more info, click here.
• The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellowship is available to one American student composer participating in this year's Festival. The Fellow will be chosen from among all qualified applicants.

FESTIVAL NEWS

• Click here to read about the arrival at the festival of $1 million worth of Steinway pianos, generously loaned each summer by Steinway & Sons. This story was featured on the front page of the June 19th Portland Press Herald and the Kennebec Journal.

• "Dine On" on June 23, 2008 was an extremely successful benefit for the scholarship fund, as previewed in the June 11 Portland Press Herald. Reception with Sam Hayward, chef/owner of Fore Street Resturant, and Lewis Kaplan, Festival Director, demonstrating and serving Sam's Signature Seafood Appetizer. Gourmet dinner to follow, with short live auction (items include prime seats, dinner, and backstage access to the Metropolitan Opera, collections of the Trustees' wine, and more).

• There have been two changes to the announced 2008 program: The Beethoven violin concerto scheduled for August 1 has been changed to Beethoven's Emperor piano concerto featuring Alberto Nosé; Claude Baker's work on July 9 is now "Three Phantasy Pieces" for Viola and Percussion.

• BIMF Wants to Rent Your House or Apartment! We are still looking for placement for some of our faculty for the 2008 season. If you have an apartment or house to rent, click here for more information.

• The Bowdoin International Music Festival has announced its program for the 2008 season, which features the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. For a copy of the season release, click here.
• The New York Philharmonic's late-February Asian tour bore a strong Bowdoin Festival flavor. Glenn Dicterow, a 2007 Bowdoin Festival violin faculty member, is the Philharmonic's Concertmaster and led the musicians during their historic performance in Pyongyang, North Korea. The next day, the Dicterow and the rest of the Philharmonic performed in Seoul with recent Festival student Yeol-eum Son as piano soloist. Click here for a photo of Yeol-Eum acknowledging the crowd at the concert.
• For Lewis Kaplan's season preview and much more, read the latest, Spring 2008 edition of the Festival's newsletter here.
• The Bowdoin International Music Festival, now planning its 44th season of outstanding classical music performances and education, has received generous grants from two local foundations: the Alfred M. Senter Fund of Brunswick and the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust of Portland. Read more about these grants here.
• Bowdoin Festival receives a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast Track grant. The $10,000 grant will be used to produce EuroFest 2008; click here for U.S. Representative Tom Allen's comments.
• Bowdoin Festival receives two Meet the Composer grants for 2008; Huang Ruo and Ricardo Iznaola will premiere, perform, and discuss two new works as part of the Upbeat! concert series. Read about the grants here.
• A record number of students applied to the Festival in 2007 (36% over our previous high). Among those accepted were several outstanding young musicians from Maine. Read more here. Read the Times Record article on this subject here.

PRESS COVERAGE

• The Bowdoin International Music Festival was featured in Chamber Music magazine on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 2004. [more ...].
• The Bowdoin International Music Festival was featured in the November 2001 issue of Strad Magazine. [more ...].