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Baroque on Beaver Young Soloist Competition
The Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance, producer of the Baroque on Beaver Festival, announces the 2024 Baroque on Beaver Young Soloist Competition. The Competition is open to all high-school age instrumental soloists who reside and attend school in Michigan. As a result of a generous commitment by sponsors Bev and Larry Seiford, three cash prizes will be awarded with the First-Place winner invited to perform with the Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra at the summer 2024 Festival.
Twenty-Third Anniversary Season: July 25 – August 3, 2024
Thursday July 27 | 7:30
Drinks, Dessert, and Discussion
A Festival Introduction – Robert Nordling, host
Beaver Island Historical Society Print Museum
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Saturday July 29 | 6:30
Opening Night Benefit
6:30 Pre-Concert Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres
7:30 Concert
9:00 Post Concert Champagne & Dessert
Ying Li, solo piano
Beaver Island Community Center
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Monday July 31 | 4:00
Brass on the Grass
Popular favorites with the Metallurgy Brass Quintet
Whiskey Point Lighthouse
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Monday July 31 | 7:30
New and Next
Contemporary classical – Robert Nordling, guide
Beaver Island Community Center
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Tuesday August 1 | 7:30
Chamber Music Waterside
Music of Bach, Coleridge-Taylor, Joplin
CMU Biological Station
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Wednesday August 2 | 3:00 – 5:00
The St James Jazz Ensemble
Happy Hour Jazz Standards
Whiskey Point Brewing Company
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Sponsored by Bob and Julie Neff
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Wednesday August 2 | 7:30
The Founders Vocal Concert
The Festival Chorus – Kevin Simons, conductor
Beaver Island School
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Thursday August 3 | 2:00
Chamber Music al fresco
Light classics with the Donegal Bay Woodwind Quintet
Beaver Island Gallery
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Sponsored by Randy and Carol Roberts
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Thursday August 3 | 7:30
Mozart Only
Overture, Don Giovanni; Piano Concerto No. 20; Symphony No. 40
The Festival Orchestra – Robert Nordling, conductor; Ying Li, piano
Beaver Island School
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Friday August 4 | 2:00
Kids in Concert!
The Dorothy Gerber Strings Program – David Reimer, director
Beaver Island School
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Sponsored by Harbour Bodega
Saturday August 5 | 7:30
Baroque, Naturally
Beethoven Symphony No. 6; Vaughan-Williams “Flos Campi”
The Festival Orchestra & Chorus – Robert Nordling, conductor
Michael Hall, viola
Serafima Bezuglova, violin
Beaver Island School
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More Upcoming BIPAA Events
Free Event
Tuesday July 5 | 8:30 - dusk (pre-fireworks)
An American Celebration! Patriotic favorites for brass quintet
Location: Public beach downtown, you’ll know when we start playing
Co-presented by the BI Chamber of Commerce and BIPAA
Generously sponsored in part by the Beaver Island Boat Company
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Wednesday August 24 | 7:30 BI Jazz Series: The Mark Ortwein Quartet
BI Community Center
Ticketed Reserved Seating Only
Co-presented by PABI and BIPAA
Description
The Beaver Island Preforming Arts Alliance, the BIC Center and WVBI are thrilled to bring a jazz series back to the island after a multi-year hiatus. Events will be spread across the summer season and into the fall at a variety of venues continuing with this performance by the Young Lions Collective at the BIC Center.
About the Young Lions Collective
The Young Lions Collective represents the best and brightest of Michigan’s next generation of jazz musicians. This collaboration of wildly talented young musicians will take audiences on a journey through an extensive history of jazz. This performance will be a truly unique and memorable tribute to the tremendous legacy of jazz. Join us in the theater at the BIC Center as they envision the future of jazz.
The Young Lions appear courtesy of Kerrytown Concert House.
2024 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Thursday July 25 | 7:30 | Beaver Island Historical Society | Lecture with Robert Nordling
Saturday July 27 | 7:30 | BIC Center | Opening Night Benefit, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano
Monday July 29
- 3:00 | Whiskey Point Lighthouse | Brass on the Grass
- 7:30 | BIC Center | New and Next: Contemporary Classical, Robert Nordling, host
Tuesday July 30
- 3:00 | Beaver Island Gallery | Emerald Winds
- 7:30 | CMU | Chamber Music Waterside
Wednesday July 31
- 3:00 | Whiskey Point Brewing | St James Jazz Ensemble
- 7:30 | CMU | The Founders Concert
Thursday August 1
- 7:30 | BIC Center | Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra
- World Premiere by composer Eric Malmquist
Saturday August 3
- 7:30 | BIC Center | A Night at the Opera
- Featuring Martha Guth and Ricardo Lugo
2024 PAA JAZZ SERIES EVENTS
Tuesday July 9 & Wednesday July 10 | 7:30 | BIC Center | Searching for Eden a play by James Still
- Directed by Peter Amster | Performed by David Breitbart and Cindy Gold
Wednesday July 17
- 7:30 | BIC Center | Greg Vadnais Quartet
Wednesday August 14
- 7:30 | BIC Center | Kevin Cole, piano