Welcome to the
Winter Harbor Music Festival
​and Concert Series

Applications for our 2024 Summer Festival are now open! The 2024 Summer Community Opera will be Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte

2023 Program Book

Reservations for all Performances

​Located on the spectacular  'Downeast' tip of the Schoodic Peninsula in the northern section
​of Acadia National Park
Where the pounding surf meets the rockbound coast of Maine!
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Artist Faculty
Deiran Manning (Opera Director; Piano) - University of Maine School of Performing Arts
Deirdre McArdle (Chamber Coordinator, Woodwinds) - former faculty Bowdoin College
Wolfgang Brendel, Professor of Voice, Indiana University
Celine Mogielnicki (Voice) - Catholic University
Anatole Wieck (Strings) - University of Maine School of Performing Arts

WHMF photo gallery

Our two week-long festival
(August 4th-18th 2024)

​Applications due March 1st!

Offers instrumentalists and singers a unique opportunity to study and perform with artist faculty, as solo, chamber and choral musicians.  

Participants work with internationally acclaimed artists and teachers, in ensemble coaching sessions, master classes and choral-orchestral rehearsals. 

Arrangements can be made for private lessons with faculty members during the festival.

Our mission

The mission of the Winter Harbor Music Festival is to incorporate musicians of all ages and skill levels into performances with professional artists by offering free Classical Music performances in Downeast Maine.
 
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Special Thanks to...
The Ocean Reef Charitable Foundation
Bangor Savings Bank
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine
​Ken Gleason
David & Jana Kleiser
Gitika Noyes
Jane Shipman
Schoodic Arts for All
Gordon T. & Veronica Ward
 

Former guest faculty and performers
Edward Auer, Professor of Piano, Indiana University
Jeffrey Swann, Professor of Piano, New York University
Junghwa Moon, Professor of Piano, Roosevelt University
Carlos Botero, Assistant Conductor, Houston Symphony
Gerry Reuter, Oboe, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Please contact us with any questions
email: info@winterharbormusicfestival.org
or call: 917-238-0819