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The Bowdoin Festival's premier Festival Fridays concert series opens with works by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, presented by an illustrious cast of performers.  The program begins with New York Philharmonic principal oboe Liang Wang paired with the hot young violinist Ray Chen in Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060.  Chen, who won first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2009 and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in 2008, performed the Brahms violin concerto with the Festival orchestra last season.

The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet, in its ninth year in residence at the Festival, follows with Beethoven's String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2.  This will be the Yings' first Maine concert with their new first violinist, the virtuoso Ayano Ninomiya.

In the finale, Paul Neubauer performs Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Suyoen Kim, whose Beethoven Violin Concerto wowed the audience at last year's final concert.  Lewis Kaplan conducts the orchestra. Festival Fridays concerts are held at 7:30 PM in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets are $40.

Performances are held daily from June 29 through August 5, 2011. Monday Sonatas concerts and Wednesday Upbeat! concerts are held in Studzinski Recital Hall, as are the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music and the Artists of Tomorrow concert series. Festival Fridays concerts are held in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School. The Festival’s educational series, Bowdoin Festival Extra, presents free lectures, concerts, and public masterclasses in various locations. Ticketed concerts cost $30 to $50 for adults; many concerts, masterclasses, and other events throughout the season are free of charge. A complete listing of all Festival performances and ticket information can be found at www.bowdoinfestival.org. For more information, call 207-725-3895.

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