Heidi Powell, Director
Artistic Director Heidi Powell is a baroque violin specialist and has appeared as soloist with the New York Collegium, Rebel, Tafelmusik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Early Music New York, New York State Baroque, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Washington Bach Consort and served as concertmaster for Early Music New York, Washington Bach Consort and San Francisco Bach Choir. She has performed throughout North America and Europe, playing in Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, Versailles, France and many others. Her performances have appeared on NPR ‘Performance Today’, The CBS National Evening News & ‘60 Minutes’ and on the soundtrack for the Disney Movie ‘Casanova’.
She holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Indiana University, an Artist Diploma in Baroque Violin from Oberlin Conservatory with further studies at the Darius Milhaud Conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, France. Heidi's prize-winning performance in the American Bach Soloists International Bach Violin Competition was heralded by the New York Times as 'supremely confident and powerful'. She was also a finalist in the York, England Chamber Music Festival Competition and the Concorso Internazionale Antonio Vivaldi in Turino, Italy.
Heidi recently performed a solo violin recital of Bach and Biber at St. Malachy’s Church in NYC, presented by Gotham Early Music New York, Midtown Concerts, which was live streamed and can be seen at gemsny.org. Heidi has taught violin and chamber music at Oberlin Conservatory, Kneisel Hall and George Stevens Academy. She is a Suzuki violin teaching specialist and teaches privately in the Downeast Maine area as well as at Ellsworth Community Music Institute.
Heidi is Music Director at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church and Founder & Artistic director of BOOM, the Baroque Orchestra of Maine, a non-profit organization seeking to educate rural Maine audiences about historical baroque performance practice.