Unitarian Universalist Community Church
69 Winthrop Street,
Augusta, Maine 04330
Creating Community Together
UUCC Augusta Community Concert Series
Thursday
April 23, 2026 5:00pm
“Winds of Change” - Virtuoso Music for Winds and Piano
Works:
J.S. Bach - selections from the Art of the Fugue and Orchestral Suite No. 2 arranged for wind quartet
Eugene Bozza - Suite en Trio for wind trio
Karl Kramer - 3 Flavors of G Major for wind quartet*
Michael P. Atkinson - Turbulence for wind quartet*
Lindsey Wiehl - Peacock Suite for wind trio and piano*
L. v. Beethoven - Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb, Op. 16
* = Maine Premiere
Program notes to come…
Artist Biographies
Morgan Lee has built a dynamic career as a collaborator, soloist, and teacher. She frequently performs with some of the most prominent ensembles and performing arts organizations in the state of Maine, including the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Opera Maine, Classical Uprising, the Colby Symphony Orchestra, and the Amethyst Chamber Ensemble. She has performed and competed in numerous music festivals in the US and abroad and has given recitals in New York City, Italy, Spain, and France. An experienced collaborator, Dr. Lee is currently a collaborative pianist for the Colby College Music Department and the Augusta Unitarian Universalist Community Church Choir. She has previously served as staff collaborative pianist for the University of Southern Maine Osher School of Music and the University of Connecticut Music Department.
In addition to being an active performer, Dr. Lee is a teacher with over ten years of experience instructing piano. She currently works with over thirty students as an applied piano instructor for the Colby College Music Department and a member of piano faculty at Bay Chamber Music School. She has previously taught at institutions such as Eastern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, the Bronx Conservatory of Music, and Mannes College of Music.
In 2022, Dr. Lee received her Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Connecticut, where she studied with Angelina Gadeliya. She also holds a Master of Music from Mannes College of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Dr. Lee wrote her dissertation on interdisciplinary collaboration as creative practice for classical musicians and is passionate about finding new, unconventional ways to engage with classical repertoire. She is committed to continuing this work to connect with new audiences here in Maine. You can learn more about her work at morganleepianist.com.
Lindsey Wiehl is a songwriter, performer, and music scholar. She believes that the brainy and complex side of music can and should co-exist with the enjoyable and fun side of music, and works to spread her love for music as a music creator and music professor. Lindsey Wiehl teaches woodwinds, music theory, music production, and composition at The University of Maine at Augusta, and had formerly taught courses at Valley City State University and Indiana University Kokomo.
Dr. Wiehl holds several degrees in music including a bachelors in music education, an M.M. and a D.A. in Bassoon Performance from Ball State University, and a Professional Certificate in Advanced Music Production from Berklee Online. Among her favorite performance experiences include performing with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, National Music Festival, Bay View Music Festival, and the Arizona Opera. She performs and has her compositions performed at national and international conferences including the International Double Reed Society, the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Bassoon Symposium, and the National Flute Association.
She also has several active commissions for compositions and is actively writing and producing songs for her electro-synth popular music band, Lab Brats. Lindsey encourages others to unapologetically pursue their interests while ignoring stereotypes and preconceived notions of what it means to be a musician. Her research includes digging into musical analysis, composition, and creating opportunities to bring typical classical instruments into varying genres. You can learn more about her art at www.lindseywiehl.com.
Michael P. Atkinson has distinguished himself in the music world as an instrumentalist, conductor, composer, arranger/orchestrator, producer, and executive.
Michael’s diverse credits and collaborations include: Sufjan Stevens, Justin Peck, William Kentridge, the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Swedish Opera, La Monnaie De Munt, Netherlands Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Aaron Diehl, Craig Taborn, Jakob Brø, among many others.
Michael is Associate Conductor, Hornist, and Trustee Emeritus of the NYC-based chamber orchestra The Knights, of which he is a founding member for 19 years. He has appeared on the podium in concerts featuring 5 world premiere works by BalletCollective, a side-by-side concert with students from Chamber Music Center NYC, at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, with Natalie Merchant at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood Music Center. He will conduct The Knights at Carnegie Hall in May 2025 featuring the music of Reena Esmail. Michael has also appeared as guest conductor of New York City Ballet, the Orlando Philharmonic, on numerous commercial recording sessions, and as the regular conductor for Works & Process at the Guggenheim for the annual presentation of Peter and the Wolf/Third Bird featuring Issac Mizrahi, Ensemble Connect, and Dance Heginbotham.
With composer Mikael Karlsson, Michael co-composed a new score for Coppèlia, choreographed and directed by Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple for Scottish Ballet, which premiered to wide critical acclaim at the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival, and subsequently premiered in London at Sadler’s Wells in March 2023. Coppèlia will tour with Scottish Ballet to Türkiye in the Fall of 2025.
Atkinson and Karlsson have recently finished an evening-length ballet for Scottish Ballet, in collaboration with choreographer Sophie Laplane and director James Bonas. Mary, Queen of Scots will premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2025.
Michael holds a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School. You can learn more about him at: https://michael-p-atkinson.com/
Clarinetist Kristen Finkbeiner has performed in orchestras and chamber music
ensembles throughout the United States, including Tanglewood, the National Repertory
Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, the Fresno Philharmonic, New World Symphony,
Boston Ballet, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor of Music
degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Fred Ormand and a
Master of Music degree from Yale University, where she studied with David Shifrin. She
received a Doctorate of the Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern
California, where she studied under Yehuda Gilad and was his teaching assistant. She
is currently the principal clarinet in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and lives on
Penobscot Bay, her childhood home.
Michael Albert, Oboe
Michael Albert performs regularly throughout Maine and is professor of applied music at Colby College, where he teaches Oboe/English Horn, Mandolin, Baroque Violin and Viola, and Early Music Performance.