Ogunquit Performing Arts Presents the 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival at Barn Gallery, Bourne Lane at Shore Road, Ogunquit. CONCERT SCHEDULE: Saturday, October 11th (7:30PM – 9:30pm): Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper: Four Hands, One Piano (Learn More + Purchase Tickets) Friday, October 17th (7:30PM – 9:30pm): Jonathan Bass, pianist (Learn More + Purchase Tickets) Sunday, October 19th (3PM – 6PM): Student Piano Recital (Learn More – Free Admission) Scroll down and continue reading for additional important information and ticket purchase details… PURCHASE TICKETS NOWStudent Piano Recital: Sunday, October 19, 2025, at 3pm – 6pm  (Free Admission)Location: Barn Gallery, 3 Hartwig Lane (at Bourne Lane and Shore Rd), Ogunquit Price: Free Admission The 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival concludes with the Student Piano Recital, showcasing  the area’s best young pianists, performing on Ogunquit Performing Arts Committee’s world class Steinway piano before a live audience in a beautiful setting. The festival, and particularly this popular event, honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham (“Betty”), and is inspired by her own life as a piano student, performer and teacher. As a student, she first received a music degree from Smith College and continued her studies with renowned concert pianists and faculty members from Dunbarton College in Washington, D.C. and Julliard School of Music, in New York City. The founder and 1st chair of Ogunquit Performing Arts (OPA), Betty saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Model C Grand Piano, which still remains its greatest treasure. LEARN MOREAdditional Events: 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival at Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper: Four Hands, One Piano: Saturday, October 11, 2025, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Renowned classical pianist, Randall Hodgkinson, returns to Ogunquit, where he has appeared multiple times as a soloist, and with Boston Chamber Music. This time he will be joined by equally acclaimed pianist, Leslie Amper, also his spouse, for a special performance on OPA’s Steinway, developed just for Ogunquit Performing Art’s 18th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham’s Piano Festival. They regularly perform together, a four hand, two piano repertoire. Perhaps their best known recording together is “The Manatee: Piano Music of Bernard Hoffer.” TICKETS: $20 in advance / $25 at the door (checks or cash only at the door) Free parking The Program: Brahms Selections from Waltzes opus 39 Mendelssohn Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mozart Sonata in C Schubert Grand Duo About Randall Hodgkinson “The finest performance I have ever heard of this very difficult piece. It was as if he was reading my mind….” Aaron Copland on hearing pianist Randall Hodgkinson performing his Piano Fantasy in Jordan Hall, Boston Randy achieved recognition as the Grand Prize winner of the International American Music competition, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation, winner in the JS Bach International Competition, and as the recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s prestigious Cabot Award. His solo orchestral performances include appearances with the Atlanta and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and internationally with the Iceland Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He has had successful collaborations with such well-regarded musical giants as Leonard Bernstein and Gunther Schuller. As both Randy’s parents were musicians, Randy began his musical career at a very young age, with his mother as his first teacher. “Discovered” at a music festival at age 15, he was encouraged to apply for admission to the New England Conservatory of Music, where he earned a BA, MM, and AD. His musical repertoire spans from JS Bach to Donald Marino, and he performed the world premier of the piano concerto of Gardner Read at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. He currently serves on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and Wellesley College. About Leslie Amper “The highlight of the program was a most commanding and serious performance of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations…She built the series in a mighty span, intensely engaged throughout.” New York Times Leslie Amper launched her career with a critically acclaimed debut in the Carnegie Recital Hall. While still a conservatory student, she won the first annual Jordan Hall Honors Competition and was selected to play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #3 at her graduation ceremony from The New England Conservatory of Music. Taking advantage of a program offered through the Pittsburgh public schools for serious high school musicians, Leslie further honed her musical talents during summers at highly regarded music camps and festivals. A winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant, she performed in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington D.C. She also toured the United States as the musical component for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists. An acknowledged scholar and practitioner of contemporary music, she is equally adept at accompanying silent film, and has compiled piano accompaniments at the Harvard Film Archives for the short films of King Vidor’s The Crowd, among others. She also performed onstage piano in Peter Sellars’ production of Chekhov’s A Seagull at the American National Theater. Leslie has continued to lecture and perform internationally in England, Italy and Austria, and at Art Museums around the country, including but not limited to the National Gallery of Art, the Norton Museum of Art. In 2020, she performed virtual concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She currently teaches at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, the New England Conservatory Preparatory Department, and Wheaton College. She has held residencies at the Universities of Washington and Arizona, and has lectured at Boston University and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as at the New Hampshire Music Festival, where she is a regular performer. LEARN MORE + PURCHASE TICKETSJonathan Bass, pianist: Friday, October 17, 2025 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Location: Barn Gallery, 3 Hartwig Lane, (off Bournes Lane or Shore Rd), Ogunquit Price: $20 in advance; $25 at the door Virtuoso pianist, Jonathan Bass, brings his wide-ranging repertoire and talent to Ogunquit for the first time. Jonathan enjoys a multi-faceted career, and appears frequently throughout the United States and around the world as soloist and chamber musician. Of his 1994 Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut, New York Concert Review wrote, “A technical presence to be reckoned with…soaring with a feeling of lyrical discovery.” “Bass is everything a pianist should be: encompassing technical brilliance Without showiness, musical and emotional depth, careful thought and an architectural sense of structure. He has a huge dynamic range, and what impressed me the most about his performance was his extremely delicate and controlled pianissimo, probably the hardest thing to do well on the piano.” — Christopher Hyde, Maine Classical Beat Program Haydn: Sonata in C Major Chopin: Three Mazurkas Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 Copland: Piano Variations Ravel Suite: Gaspard de la Nuit ABOUT JONATHAN BASS Jonathan Bass launched his career at the age of 16 when he was awarded the Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarship for Piano Achievement at the Julliard School, where he studied for nine years. As a teenager, he further honed his craft over summers at prestigious summer camps and music festivals. He gave his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as first prize winner of the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition. Other awards he has received over the course of his career include but are not limited to: first prize in the American Pianists Association, Beethoven Fellowship Competition, the American National Chopin Competition, the National Arts Club Competition, and second prize in the Washington International Competition, Young Keyboard Artists Competition, and the Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. Most recently he was awarded the Clara Slater Memorial Award at the New England Conservatory of Music. His international performances include notable appearances in China, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Hundreds of his recitals have brought him to music centers throughout the U.S. including New York, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Washington DC, Miami, Palm Desert and Tanglewood. A Steinway Artist, he has been featured on numerous series aired by National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” New York’s WQXR, Chicago’s WFMT and Boston’s WGBH. He has also performed with many members of the Boston Symphony including concertmaster Malcolm Lowe and principal cellist Jules Eskin. He regularly performs with his spouse, Boston Symphony violinist Tatiana Dimitriades, as the Boston Duo, throughout New England. He has a Doctorate of Music Degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he worked with Menaheim Pressler of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio. He served on the faculties of San Jose State University, Boston University School of Music, Boston Conservatory, and for 30 years has served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. LEARN MORE + PURCHASE TICKETSTicket Prices and Additional DetailsTickets to these performances are available on the Ogunquit Performing Arts website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at Cricket Corner Beach and Toy, 41 Shore Rd, the Ogunquit Welcome Center, 20 Shore Rd, and the Dunaway Center, 23 School Street. Free parking for the performances at the Barn Gallery FMI: ogunquitperformingarts.org LEARN MORE + PURCHASE TICKETS