LEWISTON — Trumpeter Jack Burt, accompanied on organ by Scott Vaillancourt, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Dr. Burt is professor of trumpet at the University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts.
A graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, the University of South Carolina and the University of Texas at Austin, Burt has also studied in Berlin, Germany. He has worked with members of major orchestras in the United States and Europe, among them the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic.
His program on Monday will include works by Telemann, Albinoni, Tomasi, Hovhaness, Constant and Widor.
The Basilica’s concert series is supported in part by The Saints Peter and Paul Society. Concerts are free and open to the public and donations to the organ restoration project are welcome.
FMI, contact Scott Vaillancourt at 207-240-9419 or email: Scott.Vaillancourt@portlanddiocese.org.
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