Welcome to The Pine Mountain Music Festival! PMMF is a classical music festival that takes place in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during June.

Schedule:

Saturday, June 3, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: PAUL AND CHRISTINE SEITZ RETURN TO PMMF!

Soprano Christine Seitz and composer/guitarist Paul Seitz will draw on their wide ranging repertoire of music from centuries past to the present moment. The program will include art songs by Paul Seitz with pianist Susan Byykkonen, the world premieres of two new works by Paul, the song cycle Some Things That Fly for voice and guitar, and a new chamber work for violin, guitar, and cello. The premieres, as well as additional sets of American songs about stage, screen, and social protest, will feature the archtop guitar in this concert setting. Paul and Christine are excited to share their music this season with the Pine Mountain Music Festival community!

Location: MTU McArdle Theater

Sunday, June 4, 2023

4:00pm - 6:00pm: PAUL AND CHRISTINE SEITZ RETURN TO PMMF!

Soprano Christine Seitz and composer/guitarist Paul Seitz will draw on their wide ranging repertoire of music from centuries past to the present moment. The program will include art songs by Paul Seitz with pianist Susan Byykkonen, the world premieres of two new works by Paul, the song cycle Some Things That Fly for voice and guitar, and a new chamber work for violin, guitar, and cello. The premieres, as well as additional sets of American songs about stage, screen, and social protest, will feature the archtop guitar in this concert setting. Paul and Christine are excited to share their music this season with the Pine Mountain Music Festival community!

Location: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

10:00am - 12:00pm: LINDSAY GARRITSON PRESENTS SOLO PERFORMANCE, REIMAGINED - Masterclass

Lindsay Garritson of the Bergonzi Trio will perform a solo piano concert entitled Reimagined featuring works by Handel/Liszt, Beethoven, Cecil Chaminade, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Tania León, Astora Piazzolla, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. Each piece is a reimagining of something, whether it’s an opera of Handel, Beethoven’s variations on his original theme, an etude of Chaminade inspired by autumn, Ravel’s inspiration from the waltz, Esmail’s inspiration from Indian classical music, Tania Leon’s incorporation/inspiration of the Habanera dance (native to her homeland of Cuba), Piazzolla with the Argentine Tango, or Hamelin’s inspiration from Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Lindsay will also teach several masterclasses for local students during her PMMF residency. We will share the details for these masterclasses in the coming months.

Location: NMU Reynolds Recital Hall

7:30pm - 9:30pm: LINDSAY GARRITSON PRESENTS SOLO PERFORMANCE, REIMAGINED

Lindsay Garritson of the Bergonzi Trio will perform a solo piano concert entitled Reimagined featuring works by Handel/Liszt, Beethoven, Cecil Chaminade, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Tania León, Astora Piazzolla, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. Each piece is a reimagining of something, whether it’s an opera of Handel, Beethoven’s variations on his original theme, an etude of Chaminade inspired by autumn, Ravel’s inspiration from the waltz, Esmail’s inspiration from Indian classical music, Tania Leon’s incorporation/inspiration of the Habanera dance (native to her homeland of Cuba), Piazzolla with the Argentine Tango, or Hamelin’s inspiration from Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Lindsay will also teach several masterclasses for local students during her PMMF residency. We will share the details for these masterclasses in the coming months.

Location: NMU Reynolds Recital Hall

Thursday, June 8, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: LINDSAY GARRITSON PRESENTS SOLO PERFORMANCE, REIMAGINED

Lindsay Garritson of the Bergonzi Trio will perform a solo piano concert entitled Reimagined featuring works by Handel/Liszt, Beethoven, Cecil Chaminade, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Tania León, Astora Piazzolla, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. Each piece is a reimagining of something, whether it’s an opera of Handel, Beethoven’s variations on his original theme, an etude of Chaminade inspired by autumn, Ravel’s inspiration from the waltz, Esmail’s inspiration from Indian classical music, Tania Leon’s incorporation/inspiration of the Habanera dance (native to her homeland of Cuba), Piazzolla with the Argentine Tango, or Hamelin’s inspiration from Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Lindsay will also teach several masterclasses for local students during her PMMF residency. We will share the details for these masterclasses in the coming months.

Location: Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts

Friday, June 9, 2023

ISLE ROYALE CELEBRATES ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY THROUGH MUSIC

In 2020 Isle Royale National Park had planned a large celebration of the 80th anniversary of the park by commissioning Artists-In Residence Libby Meyer and Katherine Bergman to compose string quartets to be premiered that year. Unfortunately, the global pandemic had other plans. This year PMMF is excited to join forces with Isle Royale National Park to premiere these quartets alongside Elena Ruehr’s stunning Keweenaw Quartet on Isle Royale, performed by the Superior String Alliance Chamber Players. If you are looking for an adventure, come to Isle Royale for an evening of beautiful, place-inspired music! If that might be a little too adventurous, you can also hear this wonderful music at other “mainland” locations during the festival.

Location: Isle Royale National Park

Saturday, June 10, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: LINDSAY GARRITSON PRESENTS SOLO PERFORMANCE, REIMAGINED

Lindsay Garritson of the Bergonzi Trio will perform a solo piano concert entitled Reimagined featuring works by Handel/Liszt, Beethoven, Cecil Chaminade, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Tania León, Astora Piazzolla, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. Each piece is a reimagining of something, whether it’s an opera of Handel, Beethoven’s variations on his original theme, an etude of Chaminade inspired by autumn, Ravel’s inspiration from the waltz, Esmail’s inspiration from Indian classical music, Tania Leon’s incorporation/inspiration of the Habanera dance (native to her homeland of Cuba), Piazzolla with the Argentine Tango, or Hamelin’s inspiration from Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Lindsay will also teach several masterclasses for local students during her PMMF residency. We will share the details for these masterclasses in the coming months.

Location: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts

Sunday, June 11, 2023

1:00pm - 3:00pm: LINDSAY GARRITSON PRESENTS SOLO PERFORMANCE, REIMAGINED - Masterclass

Lindsay Garritson of the Bergonzi Trio will perform a solo piano concert entitled Reimagined featuring works by Handel/Liszt, Beethoven, Cecil Chaminade, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Tania León, Astora Piazzolla, and Marc-Andre Hamelin. Each piece is a reimagining of something, whether it’s an opera of Handel, Beethoven’s variations on his original theme, an etude of Chaminade inspired by autumn, Ravel’s inspiration from the waltz, Esmail’s inspiration from Indian classical music, Tania Leon’s incorporation/inspiration of the Habanera dance (native to her homeland of Cuba), Piazzolla with the Argentine Tango, or Hamelin’s inspiration from Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Lindsay will also teach several masterclasses for local students during her PMMF residency. We will share the details for these masterclasses in the coming months.

Location: MTU Choir Room

7:30pm - 8:30pm: ISLE ROYALE CELEBRATES ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY THROUGH MUSIC

In 2020 Isle Royale National Park had planned a large celebration of the 80th anniversary of the park by commissioning Artists-In Residence Libby Meyer and Katherine Bergman to compose string quartets to be premiered that year. Unfortunately, the global pandemic had other plans. This year PMMF is excited to join forces with Isle Royale National Park to premiere these quartets alongside Elena Ruehr’s stunning Keweenaw Quartet on Isle Royale, performed by the Superior String Alliance Chamber Players. If you are looking for an adventure, come to Isle Royale for an evening of beautiful, place-inspired music! If that might be a little too adventurous, you can also hear this wonderful music at other “mainland” locations during the festival.

Location: Orpheum Theater

Monday, June 12, 2023

8:00pm - 9:00pm: ISLE ROYALE CELEBRATES ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY THROUGH MUSIC

In 2020 Isle Royale National Park had planned a large celebration of the 80th anniversary of the park by commissioning Artists-In Residence Libby Meyer and Katherine Bergman to compose string quartets to be premiered that year. Unfortunately, the global pandemic had other plans. This year PMMF is excited to join forces with Isle Royale National Park to premiere these quartets alongside Elena Ruehr’s stunning Keweenaw Quartet on Isle Royale, performed by the Superior String Alliance Chamber Players. If you are looking for an adventure, come to Isle Royale for an evening of beautiful, place-inspired music! If that might be a little too adventurous, you can also hear this wonderful music at other “mainland” locations during the festival.

Location: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

1:00pm - 2:00pm: THE BERGONZI TRIO PRESENTS FORMAL CONCERTS AND CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

The wonderful Bergonzi Trio returns bringing their brilliant music-making with them in an exciting program including works by Tailleferre and Haydn, and the stunning Ravel Piano Trio. This concert will definitely prove to be an adventure! For the younger members of our audience (or those who are young at heart), there will also be free interactive children’s concerts. Members of the Bergonzi Trio are Scott Flavin (violin), Ross Harbaugh (cello), and Lindsay Garritson (piano).

Location: Portage Lake United Church

7:30pm - 9:30pm: THE BERGONZI TRIO PRESENTS FORMAL CONCERTS AND CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

The wonderful Bergonzi Trio returns bringing their brilliant music-making with them in an exciting program including works by Tailleferre and Haydn, and the stunning Ravel Piano Trio. This concert will definitely prove to be an adventure! For the younger members of our audience (or those who are young at heart), there will also be free interactive children’s concerts. Members of the Bergonzi Trio are Scott Flavin (violin), Ross Harbaugh (cello), and Lindsay Garritson (piano).

Location: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

4:00pm - 4:30pm: ON THE TOWN CONCERTS

Back by popular demand, these free 30 - 45 minute chamber music concerts will happen around the Keweenaw Peninsula for one day during the Festival. The On the Town concerts will feature performances by PMMF musicians from different groups mixed together! Catch a short performance in a unique place like the canal shorefront, a coffee shop, an antique store, or in a photography gallery. More details to come!

Location: The Vertin

6:00pm - 6:45pm: ON THE TOWN CONCERTS

Back by popular demand, these free 30 - 45 minute chamber music concerts will happen around the Keweenaw Peninsula for one day during the Festival. The On the Town concerts will feature performances by PMMF musicians from different groups mixed together! Catch a short performance in a unique place like the canal shorefront, a coffee shop, an antique store, or in a photography gallery. More details to come!

Location: Outside the Portage Lake Library

8:00pm - 10:00pm: PMMF STEAMPUNK GALA

In keeping with the steampunk theme of our opera this season, we are planning a steampunk themed event at the Quincy Mine Hoist House that will include music, food and great conversation! Wear your favorite steampunk themed outfit and join the fun! For inquiring minds: steampunk is a design style inspired by Victorian era industrialism; think steam-powered machinery, Victorian era clothing, and anachronistic accessories for science fiction flair. Google ‘steampunk’ if you want to know more about the genre, look, and vibe! This thrilling event will take place during the festival. Check the PMMF website for more details in the coming months!

Location: Quincy Mine Hoist House

Thursday, June 15, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: THE BERGONZI TRIO PRESENTS FORMAL CONCERTS AND CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

The wonderful Bergonzi Trio returns bringing their brilliant music-making with them in an exciting program including works by Tailleferre and Haydn, and the stunning Ravel Piano Trio. This concert will definitely prove to be an adventure! For the younger members of our audience (or those who are young at heart), there will also be free interactive children’s concerts. Members of the Bergonzi Trio are Scott Flavin (violin), Ross Harbaugh (cello), and Lindsay Garritson (piano).

Location: Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts

Friday, June 16, 2023

4:00pm - 5:00pm: THE BERGONZI TRIO PRESENTS FORMAL CONCERTS AND CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

The wonderful Bergonzi Trio returns bringing their brilliant music-making with them in an exciting program including works by Tailleferre and Haydn, and the stunning Ravel Piano Trio. This concert will definitely prove to be an adventure! For the younger members of our audience (or those who are young at heart), there will also be free interactive children’s concerts. Members of the Bergonzi Trio are Scott Flavin (violin), Ross Harbaugh (cello), and Lindsay Garritson (piano).

Location: Peter White Public Library

5:00pm - 6:00pm: GUERILLA OPERA PRESENTS THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE

A CONCERT VERSION OF ELENA RUEHR’S OPERA BASED ON THE STEAMPUNK GRAPHIC NOVEL BY SYDNEY PADUA!

Meet Victorian London’s dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, unrealized inventor of the computer and his accomplice, Ada Lovelace, a peculiar proto-programmer. Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, with annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of general computing theory a century before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died a decade after publishing her paper and Babbage never built his machines. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents an alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage build the difference engine, program runaway economic models, battle a scourge of spelling errors and, of course, fight crime!

Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is a new comic opera by composer Elena Ruehr and librettist Royce Vavrek based on Sydney Padua’s graphic novel. The opera utilizes sounds from the only working difference engine in the world, recorded in Seattle. The clicks and clacks of the machine are morphed into a percussion section and mapped onto a midi marimba so that the sounds are played as part of the opera. Unlike traditional opera companies, Guerilla Opera artists perform without a conductor or formal music director. This is unusual and distinguishes them in the field of opera. This practice requires extraordinary awareness and communication skills that can only be honed through consistent practice by a group of artists working together over time.

Location: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts

Saturday, June 17, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: THE BERGONZI TRIO PRESENTS FORMAL CONCERTS AND CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

The wonderful Bergonzi Trio returns bringing their brilliant music-making with them in an exciting program including works by Tailleferre and Haydn, and the stunning Ravel Piano Trio. This concert will definitely prove to be an adventure! For the younger members of our audience (or those who are young at heart), there will also be free interactive children’s concerts. Members of the Bergonzi Trio are Scott Flavin (violin), Ross Harbaugh (cello), and Lindsay Garritson (piano).

Location: NMU Reynolds Recital Hall

7:30pm - 8:30pm: GUERILLA OPERA PRESENTS THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE

A CONCERT VERSION OF ELENA RUEHR’S OPERA BASED ON THE STEAMPUNK GRAPHIC NOVEL BY SYDNEY PADUA!

Meet Victorian London’s dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, unrealized inventor of the computer and his accomplice, Ada Lovelace, a peculiar proto-programmer. Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, with annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of general computing theory a century before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died a decade after publishing her paper and Babbage never built his machines. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents an alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage build the difference engine, program runaway economic models, battle a scourge of spelling errors and, of course, fight crime!

Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is a new comic opera by composer Elena Ruehr and librettist Royce Vavrek based on Sydney Padua’s graphic novel. The opera utilizes sounds from the only working difference engine in the world, recorded in Seattle. The clicks and clacks of the machine are morphed into a percussion section and mapped onto a midi marimba so that the sounds are played as part of the opera. Unlike traditional opera companies, Guerilla Opera artists perform without a conductor or formal music director. This is unusual and distinguishes them in the field of opera. This practice requires extraordinary awareness and communication skills that can only be honed through consistent practice by a group of artists working together over time.

Location: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts

Monday, June 19, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: UPSTARTS! CONCERTS

Since 2012, the UPstarts! program has provided young emerging singers and instrumentalists from the Upper Peninsula the opportunity to perform in a professional music festival. Chosen by audition, the young artists tour the U.P., meeting audiences of all sizes in different performance settings. These concerts (accompanied by Susie Byykkonen, UPstarts! Director) provide the artists with important experiences on the concert stage and give audiences a chance to enjoy the impressive level of talent that comes from our local communities. 2023 UPstarts! performers will be Oskar Gaenssle (bassoon), Maitri White (soprano), Michael Halvorson (saxophone), Adam Hall (cello).

Location: Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: UPSTARTS! CONCERTS

Since 2012, the UPstarts! program has provided young emerging singers and instrumentalists from the Upper Peninsula the opportunity to perform in a professional music festival. Chosen by audition, the young artists tour the U.P., meeting audiences of all sizes in different performance settings. These concerts (accompanied by Susie Byykkonen, UPstarts! Director) provide the artists with important experiences on the concert stage and give audiences a chance to enjoy the impressive level of talent that comes from our local communities. 2023 UPstarts! performers will be Oskar Gaenssle (bassoon), Maitri White (soprano), Michael Halvorson (saxophone), Adam Hall (cello).

Location: NMU Reynolds Recital Hall

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

7:30pm - 9:30pm: UPSTARTS! CONCERTS

Since 2012, the UPstarts! program has provided young emerging singers and instrumentalists from the Upper Peninsula the opportunity to perform in a professional music festival. Chosen by audition, the young artists tour the U.P., meeting audiences of all sizes in different performance settings. These concerts (accompanied by Susie Byykkonen, UPstarts! Director) provide the artists with important experiences on the concert stage and give audiences a chance to enjoy the impressive level of talent that comes from our local communities. 2023 UPstarts! performers will be Oskar Gaenssle (bassoon), Maitri White (soprano), Michael Halvorson (saxophone), Adam Hall (cello).

Location: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Lobby

Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023 - Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Locations:

Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts - 1400 Townsend Dr, Houghton, MI 49931
Portage Lake United Church - 1400 E Houghton Ave, Houghton, MI 49931
Ontonagon Theatre of Performing Arts - 311 N Steel, Ontonagon, MI 49953
Peter White Public Library - 217 N Front St, Marquette, MI 49855
NMU Reynolds Recital Hall - Lee Hall Drive and 7th street, Marquette, MI 49855
McArdle Theater - Walker Arts and Humanities Center, 1400 Townsend Dr, Houghton, MI 49931
St. Paul's Episcopal Church - 201 E Ridge St, Marquette, MI 49855
The Orpheum Theater - 426 Quincy St, Hancock, MI 49930
Vertin Antiques Gallery - 220 6th St, Calumet, MI 49913
Portage Lake District Library - 58 Huron St, Houghton, MI 49931
Quincy Mine - 49750 US Hwy 41, Hancock, MI 49930

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