Concerts at Eagle Hill - 2026

Eagle Hill hosts occasional chamber concerts by highly accomplished musicians who travel the world sharing their passion for music.

Concerts run for about an 1:15 to 1:30 hours, including a brief intermission. Start times for concerts are noted in the calendar below. Concert events begin with a reception 45 minutes before the start of each concert. This is a pleasant time to discreetly mingle with guests over complimentary juice, iced tea, or wine.

Concert tickets:
Regular ... $25
Friends of Music members and college and university students ... $20
Children under 18 ... Free if accompanied by their parents or grandparents who are not guests of others.

Special member benefit ... Members may each invite, at no cost, one friend who has not previously been to a concert at Eagle Hill. In addition, if the member is having dinner, their friend can join them at no cost.

Optional dinner afterwards ... Each concert is followed by an optional dinner for guests who enjoy an extended evening at Eagle Hill with friends in the company of the musicians. Dinners are normally $40, $35 for Friends of Music members and college students, and $20 for children under 18. Dinners include a salad, baguette, choice of 1 of 2 entrées, dessert, and coffee/tea. Wine with dinner is optional. Reservations need to be made by 10AM of the program day.

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2026 - Pending concerts are inserted as they are scheduled. Completed concerts are at end of calendar. Bios are at end of page. Links to past years are at end of calendar.
Dates/Times	Days	Program titles and descriptions	Optional afternoon cafe or dinners

Jan 17th 4PM	Sat	Baroque Orchestra of Maine Heidi Powell, Baroque violin Max Treitler, Baroque cello Works by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Nicola Matteis (1650-1714) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)	Green house salad Baguette with butter Entrées: Chicken in a light cream tarragon sauce ... or ... savory chickpea medallions in a light cream tarragon sauce Sweet potato wedges Basmati rice Dessert: Florida rum cake Coffee or tea

Date pending	Fri	"Promenades" The program will feature a famous "Kegelstatt" trio by Mozart, an eloquent and colorful pair of Interludes by Ibert, a playful and evocative "Promenades” by Martinu and a lesser known work by Italian-American composer Vittorio Rieti Anatole Wiek, violin, viola Marina Minkin, harpsichord, piano Elizabeth Downing, flute	TBA

Mar 21st 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Deiran Manning	TBA

Mar 27th 5PM	Fri	DaPonte String Quartet Kirsten Monke, viola Lydia Forbes, violin Myles Jordan, cello Philipp Elssner, violin	TBA

Apr 10th 5PM	Sat	Ad Libitum Ensemble Versailles French Baroque concert Marina Minkin and colleagues Website	TBA

Apr 18th 5PM	Sat	Cello recital Joachim Woitun	TBA

Jun 6th 5PM	Sat	Harpsichord recital Mark Kroll	TBA

Jun 12th 5PM	Fri	Four String Quartets Concert by 4 students in each of 4 string quartets in the Advanced Quartet Studies Master Class hosted by the DaPonte String Quartet	TBA

Jun 13th 5PM	Sat	Piano recital Danny Holt	TBA

Oct 9th 5PM	Fri	Dobro musician and singer Abbie Gardner	TBA

Oct 10th 5PM	Sat	Cello, piano, and clarinet concert Phillip Silver, piano Noreen Silver, cello Eric Thomas, clarinet	TBA

Past concert seasons ... 2025 ... 2024 ... 2023 ... 2022 ... 2021 ... 2020 ... 2019 ... 2018

Musicians - Bios are added as concerts are scheduled.

DaPonte Formed in Philadelphia in 1991, the members of the DaPonte String Quartet made the move to Maine in 1996 on a Rural Residency Grant from Chamber Music America, and they have been here ever since. Maine is where they have chosen to put down roots. In their 34 years of existence, they have played all over our state, as well as in many other states and Europe. The DSQ is based in Freeport, but travels throughout Maine for performances and workshops. The full bio of the DaPonte String Quartet can be found at www.dapontequartet.org.

Abbie Gardner is a fiery dobro player with an infectious smile. Whether performing solo or with Americana darlings Red Molly, her songs are propelled by impeccable slide guitar chops. Her live show is truly unique - as an award-winning songwriter, captivating vocalist, and a world-class lap style dobro player, she has an unmistakable sound all her own. This sound of vocals and dobro unaccompanied is masterfully captured on her 2022 CD "DobroSinger." The record hit #11 on the Billboard Blues Charts and #2 on the Folk DJ Charts. It’s a raw intimate recording full of blues and heartfelt ballads. Quite a contrast to Wishes on a Neon Sign (2018) which featured a co-write with Chris Stapleton and leaned on full band production. She's a Kerrville New Folk Finalist (2025) and was recently nominated for Folk Alliance International's Artist of the Year (ceremony in Jan 2026). Though she has traveled around the world with Red Molly, Abbie stands strong as a solo act and has opened for Lori McKenna, Hot Rize, and Martina McBride. www.abbiegardner.com/epk

Called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich, and hailed as one of the “local heroes” of the Los Angeles music scene (LAcitybeat.com), pianist Danny Holt performs around the globe in concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl), clubs (Joe’s Pub, The Blue Whale, Copenhagen Jazzhouse) art galleries (MASS MoCA, Hammer Museum), churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen. His recorded catalog includes the recent solo album “Piano Music of Mike Garson” and other solo, chamber, and orchestral releases on the Innova Recordings label, pfMENTUM, New World Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Acis Productions, and L’st records. After spending most of the past two decades in Southern California, Holt recently relocated to East Machias, where he enjoys being surrounded by natural beauty and the many joys of small town life in Downeast Maine. www.dannyholt.net

Kroll Mark Kroll enjoys a distinguished career as a performer, scholar and educator. He has appeared worldwide in recital and as concerto soloist, served as harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony for thirty years, and made numerous recordings, including Dutilleux’s Les Citations with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the complete pièces de clavecin of François Couperin. Kroll has published eight books and is Professor emeritus at Boston University, where he founded the Departments of Harpsichord and Historical Performance. markkroll.com

Manning Deiran Manning has given performances across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Italy at notable venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the New York City Mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. Originally a Maine native, Mr. Manning spent his formative years in New York City attending LaGuardia High School and eventually earning his undergraduate and masters degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. His notable teachers include pianists Edmund Battersby, Edward Auer, Karen Shaw, Jeffrey Swann and baritone Wolfgang Brendel. As a collaborative player, Mr. Manning has performed with notable musicians including flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Anatole Wieck, and baritones Stephen Bryant and Wolfgang Brendel. Mr. Manning has also been on faculty at New York University, The University of Maine and Brooklyn Conservatory where he taught group keyboard, performance classes, theory and private lessons. Notable awards include; Stanza Governor’s Prize in Composition, LISSMA International Piano Competition, Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition and the Ira Gershwin award. In 2020 and 2021, Mr. Manning received grants from the Maine Arts Council to recording iconic keyboard works. In addition to several others, his recordings of the Diabelli and Goldberg Variations are available digitally on spotify, apple music and other streaming platforms. Mr. Manning is currently on the faculty at Husson University and serves as Executive Director of the Winter Harbor Music Festival.

Marina Minkin performs and records regularly as a soloist, and as a member of the Phoenix Ensemble, the Spectrum Ensemble, and with the Israel Contemporary Players (Ensemble 21). She holds Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Jerusalem Academy, Israel, and Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Boston University, USA. Currently she resides in Israel and teaches harpsichord and baroque music courses at the Levinsky College School of Music Education, at the Israeli Conservatory in Tel-Aviv and at the Jezreel Valley Art Center. Marina Minkin has just released 2 new CDs: a recording of Vittorio Rieti’s harpsichord solo and chamber music on New World Records featuring acclaimed American and Israeli artists, and “Conversations” – contemporary music for 2 harpsichords (with David Shemer) on Omnibus Classics. Her other recordings include the CD Harpsichord Music by Israeli Composers (Albanu Records), the album Bach, Bach & Bach (Artona) featuring sonatas for viola and harpsichord by J.S. Bach and his sons (with Michael Zaretsky, viola), and numerous appearances on the WGBH radio station (Boston), the Kol Israel classical music radio station (Israel), RCJ radio Paris, and WNYC radio NewYork. From 2009. Dr. Minkin has been appointed as the Artistic Director of the Yehiam Renaissance Festival (Western Galilee, Israel).

Powell Heidi Powell is a baroque violin specialist and has appeared as soloist with the New York Collegium, Rebel, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Early Music New York, New York State Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Washington Bach Consort. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Indiana University and an Artist Diploma in Violin from Oberlin Conservatory. Heidi's prize winning performance in the American Bach Soloists International Bach Violin Competition was heralded by the New York Times as 'supremely confident and powerful'. Heidi has taught violin and chamber music at Oberlin Conservatory, Kneisel Hall, Creative Spark and George Stevens Academy. She is a Suzuki violin teaching specialist and teaches privately in the downeast area. She is the founder and director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine. When she is not organizing concerts, performing and teaching, Heidi is spending time with her son as well as exploring & enjoying nature, hiking, swimming, cooking organic foods and doing anything creative.

Silver Noreen and Phillip Silver bring a wealth of performing experience to their highly regarded partnership. They have an enviable international reputation for chamber music playing of the highest caliber. The Duo, founded when Noreen and Phillip were students at the New England Conservatory of Music, has received accolades and acclaim from appreciative audiences and critics throughout Europe, Israel, the United States, Scandinavia, and the Czech Republic. Noreen’s professional experience includes several years in Seattle’s Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Boston Opera, London’s BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She is now principal cellist of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra (USA), and has appeared as soloist with the orchestra on several occasions. Phillip has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London, the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Israel Museum and Henry Crown Theater in Jerusalem.

Max Treitler's musical life was shaped almost entirely by time spent in this area. Over the course of seven summers spent at Kneisel Hall, he was the grateful student of George Sopkin and Barbara Stein Mallow as well as receiving chamber music instruction from Seymour Lipkin and Artur Balsam. After a prolonged and painful series of years spent in the wilds of New York's freelance jungle, he finally saw wisdom, and returned to the Blue Hill Peninsula, where he now happily messes about in the areas of overlap between wine, food and music.

Born in Latvia, Anatole Wieck received his first musical education in Riga and Moscow. In the United States since 1973, he studied violin and viola at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where he completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts working closely with Ivan Galamian, Lillian Fuchs, and Paul Doktor. He also studied baroque interpretation with Carol Lieberman at Boston University. He plays baroque viola, viola d’amore and baroque violin. Since 1986 Dr. Wieck has taught upper strings at the University of Maine and conducted the University of Maine Orchestra. He has performed and conducted in Europe, North and South America, and has participated in chamber music festivals such as Chamber Music/West (San Francisco), White Nights (St. Petersburg, Russia) and festivals in Montepulciano, Italy and Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Wieck also performed for Baroque Chamber Music festivals in Spain. In May, 2006 he traveled to Guatemala as a Fulbright Senior Specialist where he conducted the Juventud y Música Foundation orchestra, gave master classes to students and faculty of the Guatemala National Conservatory. As a member of the Ad Libitum Ensemble that specializes in Baroque music, Dr. Wieck toured Israel in December 2007. In April 2008 Dr. Wieck performed at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY City. Between 2009 and 2012 he traveled five times to Mexico to teach, perform, and conduct. Dr. Wieck collaborated with Artes Revueltas. In the spring of 2013 Dr. Wieck performed and taught in Japan as a soloist and chamber musician. He performs regularly with the Baroque Orchestra of Maine and is director of the String Program at Maine Summer Youth Music at the University of Maine. In 2010 Dr. Wieck co-founded the Chamber Music Institute (CMI) with his Juilliard classmate Akiko Hirose-Silver.

Joachim Woitun studied cello at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium and the Hochschule fuer Musik in Munich, Germany. He moved to the United States in 1987 to continue his studies with Michael Flaksman at California State University in Fresno. Mr. Woitun earned his MA degree from City University of New York while studying cello with Stephen Kates and Barbara Mallow-Stein; baroque performance practice with Ray Erickson and Fred Hauptman; chamber music with Daniel Phillips; and contemporary music with Ronald Roseman. He has also been featured in masterclasses taught by William Pleeth, Leslie Parnas and Sharon Robinson. Mr. Woitun's performance credits include being a soloist with the Orchester Kurt Graunke in Munich and the Spokane Symphony Orchestra in Washington State. He has premiered works by Ronald Roseman, Jennifer Griffith and Carmen Braden. As a recitalist, he can be heard regularly in the greater metropolitan area of New York City and in Downeast Maine, where he has performed at Bay Chamber Concerts in Machias, at Summerkeys in Lubec and at Fog Fest as part of the Roosevelt Estate on Campobello Island. Mr. Woitun teaches at the Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, as well as at the United Nations International School in Manhattan. In addition to maintaining an active private studio in Brooklyn, New York, he has been on the faculty of Summerkeys in Lubec, Maine since 2006.