Bowdoin International Music Festival

Founded in 1964, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival incorporates a music school, two artists' concert series, and the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music during its six-week residency at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Two hundred hightly talented young performers of graduate, college, and high school levels further their artistic development through a concentrated program of instrumental study, composition, and vocal arts with the festival's outstanding artist faculty, composed of many of the world's most renowned teachers and performers. Through its concert presentations, the festival brings performers of international stature and a rich variety of musical programming to thousands of residents and summer visitors.