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St. John's Organ Society

Dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of the historic Hook Opus #288 in Bangor, Maine

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2017 Summer Concert Schedule

2017 International Concert

2016 Summer Concert Schedule

2016 International Concert

Special Event – Bach by Candlelight

2015 Summer Concert Schedule

2015 International Concert

2014 Summer Concert Schedule

2014 International Concert

2013 Summer Concert Schedule

2012 Summer Concert Schedule

2011 Summer Concert Schedule

2010 Summer Concert Schedule

2010 A Hook Holiday

2009 Summer Concert Schedule

2008 Summer Concert Schedule

 

2016 Summer Concert Series

Begin Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 pm
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You are cordially invited to join us for:

Choral and Organ Music of Andriessen, de Klerk, Dufay and Hassler

St. John's Catholic Church
207 York Street, Bangor, Maine

Admission is Free
Donations will support Heating Assistance in the Community
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MUSICA SACRA - CHRISTMAS 2018
You are cordially invited to join the Choirs of St. John's with instruments and organ for a program of favorite anthems and carols in anticipation of the Christmas Liturgies.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
3:00PM
St. John's Catholic Church
207 York Street in Bangor, Maine.
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SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7:30 pm,
St. John's Organ Society 2019 International Organ Concert,
Tjeerd van de Ploeg from Schagen, Netherlands
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Many thanks to all who performed during the 2018 Summer Organ Concerts, to our wonderful local audiences, and to all who support St. John's Organ Society in our Annual Giving Program! We look forward to seeing you in 2019. Check back for program information.
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St. John’s Organ Society celebrates 26th season with summer organ concerts on Maine’s largest 19th-century mechanical-action pipe organ, E. & G. G. Hook’s magnificent Opus 288. These concerts are on Thursday evenings at 7:30 at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York St., Bangor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

The season finale is August 30 and features Opus 288 & Friends: Anna Maria Baeza – clarinet (Brooklyn, NY), Kevin Birch – organ (Bangor, ME), Anatole Wieck – violin (Bangor, ME), and Joachim Woitun – violoncello (Brooklyn, NY) performing the Suite for Organ, Violin, and Cello by Josef Rheinberger, Opus 149.

Anna Maria Baeza, Clarinetist, is an active solo and chamber musician who has performed in recital throughout North America and Europe. Baeza has been a member of multiple orchestras and has participated in many music festivals. Baeza holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Southern California.

Baeza teaches clarinet and chamber music, and conducts the Chamber Orchestra at
Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY. She also teaches clarinet at the Third Street Music
School Settlement in Manhattan. In the summer, she teaches adult amateurs at SummerKeys in Lubec, Maine, and will be heard at the Winter Harbor Music Festival this August, 2018.

Kevin Birch holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa with previous studies at New England Conservatory in Boston and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Since 1992 he has served as Director of Music at St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor, Maine where he also serves as Executive Director of St. John’s Organ Society. He is a member of the music faculty at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts in Orono and serves on the Liturgical Commission for the Diocese of Portland. He has performed solo recitals in the US, Canada, Europe, South America and for several national conventions of the Organ Historical Society.

Anatole Wieck is a professor of music and conducts the orchestra at the University of Maine. He earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Julliard School where he studied violin and viola. Wieck has taught, performed and conducted in Europe, Asia, and North, Central, and South America and has participated in chamber music festivals throughout the world.

Joachim Woitun studied cello at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium and the Hochschule fuer Musik in Munich, Germany. Woitun earned his MA degree from Queens College, The City University of New York, studying cello, baroque performance practice, chamber music, and contemporary music.

Woitun has been a soloist with multiple orchestras. He can be heard regularly as a recitalist in 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.

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.

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