
Aaron Engebreth
Director of Classical Music/Executive Producer, Maine StageWhen Aaron Engebreth is not hosting his show on Maine Public Classical, he enjoys a varied solo career in opera, oratorio, recital and devotes considerable energy to the performance of established music and contemporary premieres, frequently collaborating with many of today's preeminent composers. He is a two-time Grammy Award nominated artist for Best Operatic Recording for his featured roles with the Boston Early Music Festival Opera and Radio Bremen. In the U.S., is frequently featured as a guest soloist on stages from Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Boston's Symphony Hall, to international appearances from Sapporo Japan's Kitara Hall to Le Theatre de la Ville in Paris and the AmBul festival of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been a guest of the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rockport and Monadnock Music Festivals as well as many of the country's fine symphony orchestras. His recent New York City Opera debut as monodrama soloist in Argento’s A Waterbird Talk, performed at Carnegie Hall, compelled the New York Classical Review critic to write the following: "Engebreth is a marvelous actor, capable of holding his character’s many facets and motivations in tension."
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Cellist, David Ying speaks with our Director of Classical Music, Aaron Engebreth about life as a cellist, and what it's like to be Artistic Co-Director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, in Brunswick.
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Aaron Engebreth talks with members of the Me2 Orchestra, an ensemble made up of players living with Mental Illness and their allies.
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Eckart Preu, Conductor and Music Director of the Portland Symphony Orchestra talks with Maine Public's Director of Classical Music, Aaron Engebreth about the PSO's upcoming concert.
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Portland Ballet's Artistic Director Nell Shipman talks with Aaron Engebreth about the classical music inspiring her 2021/2022 season.
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The pianist, Eleonor Bindman talks about her new recording of her own piano transcriptions of the cello suites by J.S. Bach, one of our recent CD's of the week.
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Portland Ballet's Artistic & Executive Director Nell Shipman and Milena Hartog, Assistant to the Director discuss A Victorian Nutcracker which kicks-off…
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Anne Azema of The Boston Camerata discusses Boston Camerata: Free America presented by Portland Ovations on Saturday, December 1.