Painters, Sculptors, Dancers, Musicians, Poets, Writers, all those interested in the Arts, Music and the Creative Process -
YOU ARE INVITED to a FREE workshop/symposium as part of the Seal Bay Festival at Waterfall Arts on Wednesday June 15 from 3 to 5 pm with a reception to follow.  Concert at 7:30pm - $10 suggested donation

For the last week on Vinalhaven Island, a unique biennial composers’ residency has been taking place in which five respected composers of contemporary classical music have been working on new pieces in the company of and collaboration with the world class Cassatt String Quartet and pianist Adrienne Kim.

On June 15 from 3-5pm, composers, pianist and Quartet will all be at Waterfall Arts, 256 High St, Belfast for a very special working session on music, art and the creative process. In the course of the session, the Quartet will play excerpts from freshly created works in progress, and the composers will lead an open discussion with the audience about the interconnections between creative processes in different art media and in life. Ideally, audience, artists and listeners will develop a dialog that opens insight to approach, inspiration, accident, technique, performance and emotion – the essential elements of any act of creating. All those interested in participating, making, listening and reflection are wholeheartedly invited to this FREE event and the reception which follows.

That evening at 7:30pm, the Cassatt Quartet and Pianist Adrienne Kim will perform a concert of the works of the five composers at Waterfall Arts - suggested donation for the concert is $10. Concerts feature recent chamber music by Seal Bay composers in residence-Gabriela Lena Frank (San Francisco), Laura Kaminsky (New York), Anna Weesner (Philadelphia), and Samuel Zyman (New York and Mexico City). All composers on the program will be in attendance and will introduce their own works.

Concert programs will include Quijotadas for string quartet by Gabriela Lena Frank; Cadmium Yellow for string quartet by Laura Kaminsky; Lift high, Reckon; Fly low, Come Close for violin, cello and piano by Anna Weesner, and a the world premiere of a new work for piano and string quartet by Samuel Zyman. At all four concerts,

Co-Directors of the Seal Bay Festival are Daniel S. Godfrey (Composer-in Residence at the Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music), and Steven Stucky (Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell University, and recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music). The Educational Director of the festival is Nicolas Scherzinger (Associate Professor of Music at Syracuse University). Also on the festival board is composer John Duffy, who is founder and retired director of Meet the Composer, Inc.; Mr. Duffy currently lives in Camden, Maine.

The Seal Bay Festival is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. Funding also comes from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Berta Bornstein Residual Trust, the BMI Foundation, the Davis Family Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the Maine Humanities Council, the Maine Arts Commission, the Middlecott Foundation, and Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections Program, as well as from private and corporate contributors. For further information about the concerts on Vinalhaven and in Belfast and Rockland, please contact Daniel S. Godfrey at (315) 727-8196 or call the Seal Bay Festival at (207) 863-2230.

website at www.sealbayfestival.org.