Mozart Mentors Orchestra and Rachmaninoff Choir
Mozart Mentors Orchestra
The orchestra was formed in the fall of 2010 from an idea originated by Clorinda Noyes and Anthony Antolini during the summer New England Suzuki Institute (NESI) at St. Joseph's College on Sebago Lake, where Suzuki teachers work with dedicated students during an intense week of chamber music and musicianship training. The concept is that Suzuki teachers select their most promising students to play together in an orchestra along with their mentors. The ensemble has played at several performances in Brunswick, Camden and Blue Hill. Depending on the concert program, Down East Singers often supplements the Mozart Mentors Orchestra with other musicians playing such instruments as harp, percussion, and so forth.
Halcyon
HALCYON is a Maine-based artist collective and string quartet that designs and presents multimedia performances that combine live music with science, film, art, and spoken word. Their performances celebrate Maine's ecosystems and reflect on the challenges and opportunities we face in a climate-changed world. They draw attention to the daily rewards, difficult choices, and realities facing our communities – acknowledging the need for creative and diverse communication that harnesses the power of cultural traditions, storytelling, music, and visual art to translate numbers and facts into something tangible and human. They partner with scientists, musicians, artists, and composers to present 4-5 multi-show performance projects throughout Maine each year. For more information about their upcoming programs visit halcyonstringquartet.org.
Rachmaninoff Choir
The Rachmaninoff Choir combines members of the Bowdoin College Chorus in Brunswick, Maine, and Down East Singers in Rockport, Maine, and other singers from Southern Maine and the greater Boston metropolitan area. The Choir was formed in 1992 by Dr. Anthony Antolini. The ensemble specializes in Eastern Orthodox choral music. Depending on the concert, the group numbers between 60 and 80 singers. The Choir has performed all over Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and in New York City, Montreal, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Foreign tours have included the Russian Far East and St. Petersburg in 2002 and Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece in 2009.