NAHANT – American bass-baritone and North Shore resident Donald Wilkinson is adding another feather to his musical cap – that of festival impresario.With a long and distinguished international career in concert, opera, oratorio, recital and contemporary music to his credit, Wilkinson and his closest colleagues, plus a group of gifted young musicians, launch season one of the Nahant Music Festival in his own seaside community from June 6-13.Wilkinson recently completed his 2013-14 concert season – his 30th year – with both Emmanuel Music, Boston, and the Handel and Haydn Society. He has also been a soloist and ensemble member with the renowned Boston Camerata, under the direction of Joel Cohen and Anne Azema, for 23 years. Since making his European operatic debut in Athens, he has performed in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, England and Holland. He has sung with many acclaimed conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood and John Harbison. He teaches voice at Phillips Academy Andover.His colleagues – among them sopranos Barbara Kilduff and Jayne West, conductor Ryan Turner, tenor Frank Kelley, and baritones David Kravitz and James Maddalena, a Lynn native – have selected a stellar group of young performers for the festival. In the 2014 lineup are Samantha Dearborn and Eileen Huang, sopranos; Grace Allendorf and Emily Jaworski, mezzo-sopranos; Aras Lapinskas and Kilian Mooney, tenors; Lawson Daves and Ethan Sagin, baritones; and organist Mary Jodice, whose own recital takes place on Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Village Church.Concerts of the Festival will be held in three different Nahant venues. The Opening Night Gala takes place on Friday evening, June 6 at 7:30 in St. Thomas Church, featuring Kilduff, Martin Joseph Kelly, tenor; and Brian Moll, piano. They will perform solos, duets and arias from Donaudy, Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod, Denza, Moore and Massenet.A Bach Cantata Concert is next on the agenda, set for Sunday, June 8 at 3 p.m. in the Ellingwood Chapel. It consists of an aria from Cantata 21, plus Cantatas 12 and 163. This performance marks Wilkinson’s debut as a conductor. The 2014 Nahant Music Festival ends on a light-hearted note, as Frank Kelley directs the apprentices in two chamber operas, Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge and Douglas Moore’s Gallantry. Time is 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 13 in St. Thomas Church.Tickets for concerts may be purchased prior to the performances. At some events, voluntary contributions will be welcomed.