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Sunday, May 25: Noah Smith

Clarinetist Noah Smith performing a solo on stage surrounded by an ensemble.
Music Director Lucas Richman and Competition Winner, Clarinetist Noah Smith
Music Director Lucas Richman and Competition Winner, Clarinetist Noah Smith

The end of the school year is a busy time for graduating seniors. For one 12th grader at Buckfield High School, Noah Smith, these months have been full of much else as well.

Noah is a clarinetist who has been performing up a storm and bringing home top prizes at music competitions right across Maine since the start of the year. Among his honors was winning the Maine High School Concerto Competition hosted by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra – culminating in performances earlier in May. He joins us on State of the Art to talk about this exciting stretch of time and what’s ahead for him after graduation as one of Maine’s top young musicians.

For more about the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Maine High School Concerto Competition and to listen back to Noah’s concerto performance, go to bangorsymphony.org.

Heather McDougall has enjoyed a varied international career, with more than two decades working across classical radio and music management. With roots as a performing and teaching cellist, she got her start in public media at Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland’s national public broadcaster, in classical radio production and later as artistic administrator for their two radio orchestras. Other production, music direction, and project management roles at West Cork Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, WFMT Radio Network (Chicago) and WRTI (Philadelphia) have rounded out her versatility across these fields and reflect her lifelong passion for radio and music-making.