MIDCOAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2023 Season Concerts • Rohan Smith, Music Director/Conductor

Saturday’s at Franco Center, Lewiston

Sunday’s at Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham

Favorite Music for All Ages

January 14 & 15

Mesa Schubeck, Pianist

French Impressions!

May 20 & 21

Hiroya Miura, Guest Conductor

Tried & True, Plus a Newer Crew

March 19 & 20

Eva Gruesser & Rohan Smith, Violinists

Classical Night Fever

June 10 & 11

Motor Booty Affair and MSO in a 1970s Extravaganza

For complete details: MidcoastSymphony.org

Underwriters: New England Cancer Specialists,The Highlands

Season Sponsors: Bath Savings Institution, HM Payson, OceanView at Falmouth

Concert Sponsors: Lamey Wellehan Shoes, Berman & Simmons Trial Attorneys, L.L.Bean

Artist Lodging Sponsors: Fairfield Inn & Suites, Brunswick, The Brunswick Hotel

Accompanist

Sean Fleming is an in-demand keyboard artist, accompanist, and arranger. He performs regularly with the Bowdoin Chorus, Down East Singers, Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, Midcoast Community Chorus, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He performs regularly with his two bands, the Sean Fleming Ragtime Band, and the Sean Fleming Dixieland Band. He is on the roster of the Amethyst Chamber Ensemble, and is a member of the Maine Friends of Music chamber ensemble. He is a member of the newly-formed professional vocal ensemble, Butterscotch Sock Hop. He was recently the music director for the Hearts Ever Young troupe. He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals.

Fleming has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Colby College Chorale, Maine Pro Musica, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir. He has directed or accompanied over 80 musical theater productions nationwide. A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past 28 years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award.

Special Thanks

Pastor Marilee and Val Harris and the folks at Damariscotta Baptist Church

Lincoln Academy Music Department

Medomak Valley High School Music Department

The many volunteers that help set up and tear down every Monday night.