The goal of the Seal Bay Festival is
to make American chamber music an exciting and
vibrant experience for concert audiences, artists,
composers, composition students, and school
children in the storied geographical and cultural
setting of coastal Maine, serving both the
year-round and summer populations, while offering
a unique exposure to contemporary music. The 2024
Festival is on the theme Seeing Sound, with
concerts taking place in art galleries and
museums, with each concert preceded by an
introduction of their works by the composers and
the visual Vinalhaven based artists, Kitty Wales
and Diana Cherbuliez. Resident composers include:
Ileana Perez Velazquez, Mari Kimura, Joan Tower,
Shrish Korde, Vineet Shende, and Daniel Strong
Godfrey Performers: Bixby Kennedy (Clarinet)
Cassatt String Quartet, Doris Stevenson and George
Lopez (piano).
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The 2024
Participants
Composers
Special Guest
Joan
Tower
Ileana Perez Velazquez
Mari Kimura
Daniel
Strong Godfrey
Shrish Korde
Vineet Shende
Guest Performer
Bixby Kennedy (clarinet)
Doris Stevenson (piano)
George Lopez (piano)
Resident Quartet
Cassatt String Quartet
Bassist
Peter Weitzner
Festival
Staff
Festival
supervisor: Judy Salantine
Festival Assistant: Anna Parker
Recording Engineer: Peter Weitzner
Festival Site Coordinator: Alexandra
Godfrey
Visual Artist
Kitty
Wales
Diana Cherbuliez
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Daniel S. Godfrey, President
Professor at Northeastern University's College
of Arts, Media and Design
Shirish Korde, Vice President
Distinguished Professor of Humanities
College of the Holy Cross
Vineet Shende, Secretary
Professor of composition, Bowdoin college
Muneko Otani, Treasurer
Violin Faculty at Columbia University and
Williams College
1st Violinist of the Cassatt String Quartet
Laura Kaminsky, Artistic Advisor
Professor of Composition, Purchase
College/SUNY
Composer in Residence, American Opera Projects
Amy McDonald, Member-at-Large
Vinalhaven Resident
OFFICERS
Artistic Directors: Daniel S. Godfrey
Program Director, Shirish Korde
Communications Coordinators: Muneko Otani
Grant Coordinators: Muneko Otani
Site Coordinator: Alexandra Godfrey, Amy
McDonald, Vinalhaven
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Dr. Joel Botler, Chief Medical Officer, Maine
Medical Center and
Barbara Bush's Children's Hospital, Portland
Lucia Stancioff, Children's Museum and Theatre
of Maine, Portland
Sharon Huston, Thornton Oaks Retirement Living
Community, Brunswick
Alice Bissell, Partners In Island
Education,Vinalhaven
Bill Trevaskis, Vinalhaven School
Jennifer Wadleigh, Head Librarian, Vinalhaven
Public Library
Alan Crichton, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Peter
McLaughlin, SPACE Gallery, Portland
Kyle Walton, Colonial Theater, Dreamland,
Belfast
Amber Pelletier, The Highlands Retirement
Community, Topsham
Mark Barbalius, Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce,
Clam Festival
Maine In-State Advisory board:
Michael Lund Ziegler, Portland conservatory of
Music
Nicholas Chrov, Wells Reserve at Laudholm
Rona Hokanson, Vinalhaven ME
Mark Braun, MD, Portland ME
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