Help us welcome the new season! This concert will feature the Portland Piano Trio playing works by Grieg, Higdon, Kreisler, and Maine composer Bill Matthews.

Bill Matthews studied composition at Oberlin, the University of Iowa, the Institute for Sonologie in Holland, and the Yale School of Music. His principal teachers include Richard Hervig, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Jacob Druckman. Among his awards and prizes are three BMI Awards to Student Composers, several grants for study abroad, a Charles E. lves Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two ACA recording awards, and a composer-fellowship from the NEA. He has composed music of several types, including solos, orchestral, electronic and chamber music, as well as music for the theater. Teaching at Bates College since 1978, Matthews was named the first Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music in 1997.

Free and open to the public!

Stay after to hear some 240 Strings students perform!

Location TBD