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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 concerts feature Schumann and Chopin

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!

2010 Bowdoin Virtuosi announced

Four of the most accomplished young artists worldwide have been selected to perform this summer with Festival faculty and to participate in the summer study program. The four are all winners of major international competitions or have played significant recitals or concert appearances with major orchestras.

2010 Gamper Festival to feature multimedia concerts

We are pleased to bring the Juilliard Technology Center to Maine this season. The 2010 Gamper Festival will feature multi-media performances (dance, electronics, projections) directed by Edward Bilous, the Center's director, on July 29 and August 1, 2010.