Frank Glazer. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Former colleagues in the late and lamented New England Piano Quartette, pianist Frank Glazer and violist Scott Woolweaver join forces again for a Bates College performance of music by Brahms, Schumann and Herzogenberg at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

For more than 25 years, into the 2000s, Glazer and Woolweaver made music together in the New England Piano Quartette, along with cellist George Sopkin and violinist Werner Torkanowsky, succeeded after his death by Curtis Macomber. The popular quartet was known for the excellence of its performances, its breadth of repertoire (including Torkanowsky’s compositions) and the credentials of its members.

Recently featured on the American Public Media’s popular program The Story, the 97-year-old Glazer, of Topsham, has had a distinguished international career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held for many years in Cornish, Maine. Glazer has been an artist in residence at Bates since 1980.

Violist Scott Woolweaver.

Woolweaver is artist associate at Williams College and lecturer in viola and chamber music at Tufts University. He is a regular guest of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society and is director of the Adult Chamber Music Institute at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine.

He founded the Boston Composers String Quartet, which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet Competition and Chamber Music Festa in Osaka, Japan. From 1999-2006 he was a member of the Ives Quartet, based in San Francisco.

At Bates, the pair will perform the Sonatas for Viola and Piano Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2, by Brahms; Schumann’s “Märchenbilder”; and Herzogenberg’s “Legends,” Op. 62.

The chamber music ensemble features pianist Frank Glazer, violinist Curtis Macomber, violist Scott Woolweaver and cellist George Sopkin. Artist-in-residence and lecturer in music at Bates since 1980, Glazer previously served on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester for 15 years. A specialist in Beethoven, he is a recipient of the distinguished Paderewski Piano Medal, awarded in London to “an artist of superlative degree.”

His performances have taken him throughout the United States, South America, Europe and the Near East. He has performed at Carnegie and Avery Fischer halls in New York, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. A founding member of the New England Piano Quartette, Glazer performs regularly in the Portland Chamber Music Society series.

According to the New York Observer, “Macomber’s intensely human fiddle seems an entire universe, sufficient unto itself.” A versatile solo and chamber musician, Macomber is equally comfortable with and committed to works from Bach to Babbit. His discography includes the complete Brahms string quartets as well as the Roger Sessions solo sonata. Macomber has recorded for a variety of labels including Nonesuch and CRI, which recently released his second solo recording, “Songs of Solitude,” named one of the best solo instrumental discs in 1996.

A featured lecturer and recitalist in the first American Violin Congress in 1987, Macomber was a second-prize winner in the 1980 Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for the Performance of 20th Century American Violin Music.

Macomber has given recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center. He has soloed with the Musica Aeterna Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. As first violinist of the award-winning New World String Quartet from 1982 to 1993, Macomber recorded 14 discs and performed frequently on public television in the United States and Great Britain.

A member of the violin faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, Macomber holds a bachelor’s and advanced degrees from the Juilliard School. He was appointed artist in residence at Harvard University from 1982 to 1990. Woolweaver is a founding member of the Boston Composers String Quartet and plays viola for the Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. A champion of 20th-century music, he has premiered numerous works for the viola, many which were written for him.

Woolweaver teaches at Tufts University, Newton Music School and the University of Massachusetts and records for, among others, the Orion, TelDec and Decca labels. He joined the Ives String Quartet in 1999.

A founding member of both the Fine Arts Quartet and the New England Piano Quartette, Sopkin has recorded solo cello repertoire by Ernest Bloch and John Downey and solo works written for him by Werner Torkanowsky. He has performed and lectured at festivals and concert halls throughout the world. After faculty appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Carnegie Mellon University, Sopkin moved to Surrey, Maine, where he has been on the staff of the Kneisel Hall School of Chamber Music since 1995.

The annual Alvin E. David Concert is funded by a bequest to Bates College made in 1998 by Alvin David, father of Gerald David, Bates class of 1960, from Morris Plain, N.J. The endowed fund supports a classical concert on campus.