Concert: Cellist Dan Allcott and Pianist Gregory Biss

Eastport Arts Center will present a diverse month of music in July. First, on Friday, July 5 at 7 pm, cellist Dan Allcott and pianist Gregory Biss will present an evening of Beethoven, Biss, Eubie Blake, Haydn, George Rochberg, Scarlatti & Schubert. Pre-concert (6:15 pm) and post-concert receptions will offer a chance for attendees to gather casually before and after the performance.

An Eastport summer resident and frequent performer on the EAC stage, Dan Allcott maintains a busy career as a cellist, conductor, and teacher in Tennessee and Downeast Maine, and is on the faculty of SummerKeys in Lubec and the Tennessee Cello Workshop, Cellospeak, and Tapestry Cello Ensemble. Past Music Director of Atlanta Ballet, Tennessee Philharmonic and Oak Ridge Symphony, he maintains positions with the Bryan Symphony and as Professor of Music at Tennessee Tech. He regularly performs throughout the Southeastern United States and is active in the American String Teacher’s Association.

Gregory Biss was born in Illinois and educated in New England and Germany. His music has been performed by the Denver Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Vermeer Quartet. Retired from a 20-year career as a scuba diver in the aquaculture industry, Biss has resided in Eastport for 50 years where he and his wife, Barbara Smith, raised their four kids. His new children’s opera: You Can’t Sit Here was recently mounted at EAC.

Concert tickets are $15, and attendees 17 and under will be admitted free of charge. If money is an obstacle, ticket fee will be happily waived. Tickets are available below or at the door.

Next for the EAC stage, on Friday, July 26 at 7 pm, is Castlebay, a duo featuring shanties, fiddle tunes, and ballads of New England and the Celtic lands. Right around the corner in August are singer/songwriter Travis Cyr on August 2; pianist Danny Holt on August 9; violist Anne Black and friends on August 23 and the annual Young Persons’ Concert on August 30.