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Baroque on Beaver 2022

Also Baroque on Beaver 21st anniversary season

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TypeEvent
Dates2022-07-27 – 2022-08-06
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
2022-07-27 – 2022-08-06
Kind
Music festival
Participants
Robert Nordling (director) · Martha Guth (singer)
Carried out by
Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance
Followed by
Baroque on Beaver 2023
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
music-folkloreperformancecommunitytourism
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Baroque on Beaver’s 2022 season is described by its own festival program as the twenty-first anniversary season, running July 27 through August 6, 2022. The same program documents the year the presenting organization changed its name from the Beaver Island Cultural Arts Association (BICAA) to the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance (BIPAA), although its board letter that year was still headed “From The BICAA Chair.”1

Program

The captured program excerpt names three specific events rather than a complete day-by-day schedule:

  • Opening Night Gala Concert (Friday, July 29, Beaver Island Community Center) — the Lincoln Trio and soprano Martha Guth performing Chopin’s Trio in E minor, Op. 92; Clarice Assad’s “Chronicles of Ghosts: Extraordinary Women of the 16th Century,” a world premiere commissioned by BIPAA; and Piazzolla’s “Otoño Porteño.”1
  • Brass on the Grass (Whiskey Point Lighthouse) — the Metallurgy Brass Quintet.1
  • Lecture Series (Beaver Island Historical Society) — “Robert Nordling: A Festival Introduction” (Wednesday, July 27) and “Tony Manfredonia: Behind the Score” (Wednesday, August 3).1

The Executive Director’s letter, signed by Matthew Thomas, frames the name change as the start of “a new era” for the organization, while outgoing Board Chair Tamara McDonough’s letter in the same program calls this her last festival in that role.1

Evidence limits

This article rests entirely on a web-only source: the festival’s own 2022 program PDF, read and quoted on 3 August 2026, with no held Beaver Island periodical behind it. The held Beaver Beacon run ends in April 2011 and the held Northern Islander run begins in January 2024, so no periodical held here covers the 2022 season. The program excerpt recorded is a highlights list, not a full printed schedule, and no source consulted establishes whether the three items above are the complete festival program for the week.2

Open questions

  • What did the full week’s schedule include beyond the Opening Night Gala, Brass on the Grass, and the two lectures?
  • What formal step (board vote, filing) accomplished the BICAA-to-BIPAA name change, and on what date?
  • Did the Beaver Island Historical Society lecture venue host any other 2022 festival events?

See also

Footnotes

  1. Matthew Thomas, “From The Executive Director,” Baroque on Beaver 2022 festival program, accessed 3 August 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

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

Sources

  1. States "In 2022 we became the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance," calling this "the twenty-first anniversary season of Baroque." The same program still heads its board letter "From The BICAA Chair," names outgoing chair Tamara McDonough ("This festival will be my last as Board Chair"), and lists the Opening Night Gala Concert (Fri. July 29, Beaver Island Community Center: the Lincoln Trio and soprano Martha Guth performing Chopin's Trio in E minor Op. 92, Clarice Assad's "Chronicles of Ghosts: Extraordinary Women of the 16th Century" as a BIPAA-commissioned world premiere, and Piazzolla's "Otoño Porteño"), a "Brass on the Grass" concert by the Metallurgy Brass Quintet at Whiskey Point Lighthouse, and a Beaver Island Historical Society lecture series ("Robert Nordling: A Festival Introduction," Wed. July 27, and "Tony Manfredonia: Behind the Score," Wed. Aug. 3). Dates given as July 27 through August 6, 2022.
  2. Beaver Island festivals web-research capture, 3 August 2026.
    In-repo research capture recording the 2022 program URL above with its verbatim quotations and 3 August 2026 access date. It also records that the program lists the Great Lakes Islands Alliance (GLIA), not the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra (GLCO), as a well-wisher, and that no source found names GLCO as a producer of this festival. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    kb_research · festivals_web_research
  3. The announcement scheduled Metallurgy Brass for a July 5 concert at the public beach before the fireworks, sponsored by the Beaver Island Boat Company and the Thomas family in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce; a follow-up thanked the performers and sponsors. It adds a community event notice and participant feedback, not attendance or financial results.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017259

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Baroque on Beaver 2022”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/baroque-on-beaver-2022/, accessed [date], citing Matthew Thomas, "From The Executive Director," Baroque on Beaver 2022 festival program, accessed 3 August 2026. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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