Pianists Glazer, Lopez join DaPonte quartet at Bates Aug. 20, 25

The DaPonte String Quartet.

The DaPonte String Quartet: violist Kirsten Monke, violinists Dino Liva and Lydia Forbes, cellist Myles Jordan.

Pianist Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Pianist Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Pianists Frank Glazer and George Lopez join the DaPonte String Quartet for a two-concert series at Bates called Culture and Catastrophe, commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War I.

Artist in residence at Bates since 1980, Glazer joins the quartet for Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor (Op. 15) and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor (Op. 25) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Bela Bartok’s Duos for Violins will also be performed.

At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 25, Lopez joins the quartet in the Olin Concert Hall to perform Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G Minor and Frank Bridge’s There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook. The program will also include Zoltan Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7.

Tickets cost $25 and are available at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick and from www.DaPonte.org or 207-529-4555.

George Lopez (Copyright Dennis Griggs/Courtesy of Bowdoin College).

Glazer is a renowned international pianist who remains vital and active is his 100th year. Lopez is the Beckwith Artist in Residence at Bowdoin College and conductor of the Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra. He has been featured as recitalist and soloist with orchestras in such places as Paris, London, Cologne, Los Angeles and New York.

The DaPonte String Quartet came to Maine 22 years ago from Philadelphia and were this month voted the “Best Musical Group in Maine” by readers of Down East Magazine. They perform more than 40 concerts a year, year round, across the state of Maine.