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Baroque on Beaver 2026

Also Baroque on Beaver 25th anniversary season

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TypeEvent
Dates2026-07-23 – 2026-08-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
2026-07-23 – 2026-08-02
Kind
Music festival
Participants
Robert Nordling (director) · Martha Guth (singer) · Nathan Bieber (instructor)
Carried out by
Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
music-folkloreperformancecommunitytourism
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Baroque on Beaver’s 2026 season is described by mynorth.com as the festival’s twenty-fifth-anniversary year and as Music Director Robert Nordling’s final season before handing the role to Nathan Bieber. The festival’s own programs page lists an eleven-event schedule running July 23 through August 2, 2026, without naming a venue for each date, unlike earlier years’ printed programs.12

Program

As listed on the official programs page, without stated venues:

  • July 23, 7:30 p.m. — “Drinks, Dessert, Discussion”
  • July 25, 7:30 p.m. — Opening Night Benefit, featuring Martha Guth
  • July 27, 3:00 p.m. — Brass on the Grass
  • July 27, 7:30 p.m. — “New and Next: Newly Commissioned Work by Dr. Zachary Boyt”
  • July 28, 7:30 p.m. — Chamber Music Waterside
  • July 29, 1:00 p.m. — “Donegal Bay Winds: Chamber Music Al Fresco”
  • July 29, 3:00 p.m. — St. James Jazz Ensemble
  • July 29, 7:30 p.m. — The Founders Concert
  • July 30, 7:30 p.m. — Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra, including the Young Soloist Competition winner
  • August 1, 7:30 p.m. — Season Finale: A Night at the Opera
  • August 2, 4:00 p.m. — Brass on the Bay2

The organization’s home page states that the 2026 Young Soloist Competition winner receives $750 and coaching from Nathan Bieber, who mynorth.com reports will become Music Director after this, Robert Nordling’s final season in that role.21

Evidence limits

This article is web-only. No held periodical covers the 2026 season: the held Northern Islander run ends in April 2026, before the festival’s July-August dates, and no issue in that run previews the 2026 program by name (a January 2026 Northern Islander item mentions Baroque on Beaver only in a Beaver Island Community Center retrospective describing the completed 2025 season). Both sources cited here were read and quoted on 3 August 2026, and the underlying research pass recorded that web.archive.org could not be fetched, so no archived capture corroborates either page.3

Open questions

  • What venues hosted each of the eleven listed 2026 events?
  • Did the season proceed as scheduled, and what did the Young Soloist Competition and the “New and Next” commissioned Boyt work actually include?
  • When does Nathan Bieber’s tenure as Music Director formally begin — with the 2027 season, or partway through 2026?

See also

Footnotes

  1. mynorth.com, “Baroque on Beaver: Beaver Island’s Annual Classical Music Festival,” accessed 3 August 2026. ↩ ↩2

  2. Baroque on Beaver, “Programs,” official website, accessed 3 August 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Beaver Island festivals web-research capture, data/kb_research/festivals_web_research.json, 3 August 2026. ↩

Sources

  1. Lists the 2026 schedule: July 23, 7:30 p.m., "Drinks, Dessert, Discussion"; July 25, 7:30 p.m., Opening Night Benefit with Martha Guth; July 27, 3:00 p.m., Brass on the Grass; July 27, 7:30 p.m., "New and Next: Newly Commissioned Work by Dr. Zachary Boyt"; July 28, 7:30 p.m., Chamber Music Waterside; July 29, 1:00 p.m., "Donegal Bay Winds: Chamber Music Al Fresco"; July 29, 3:00 p.m., St. James Jazz Ensemble; July 29, 7:30 p.m., The Founders Concert; July 30, 7:30 p.m., Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra, including the Young Soloist Competition winner; August 1, 7:30 p.m., Season Finale: A Night at the Opera; August 2, 4:00 p.m., Brass on the Bay. Unlike the printed programs of earlier years, this page does not list a venue for each date. The baroqueonbeaver.org home page states the 2026 Young Soloist Competition winner receives $750 and coaching from Nathan Bieber.
  2. States "In 2026 the Festival celebrates 25 years of bringing classical music to Beaver Island," and that "Music director and conductor Robert Nordling bids farewell to Baroque on Beaver in 2026. He passes the baton to Maestro Nathan Bieber after a final festival characterized by the creativity and energy he brought to the event for more than a decade."
  3. Beaver Island festivals web-research capture, 3 August 2026.
    In-repo research capture recording both URLs above with their verbatim quotations and 3 August 2026 access date. It also records that web.archive.org could not be fetched in that pass, so no archived capture backs this season. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    kb_research · festivals_web_research

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Baroque on Beaver 2026”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/baroque-on-beaver-2026/, accessed [date], citing Baroque on Beaver, "Programs," official website, accessed 3 August 2026. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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