The Momenta Quartet.

Presented by the Olin Arts Alive  music series and the Bates College Museum of Art, the renowned Momenta Quartet performs new music by two Bates composers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is $12 and tickets are available at batestickets.com. Free tickets are available to the first 100 seniors and students; please reserve by calling 207-786-6163. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

The Momenta program includes the premieres of music by Bates composers Hiroya Miura and William Matthews, as well as music by Debussy, Haydn and Jason Kao Hwang.

The quartet will also offer a critique of music by Bates student composers at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in Olin Concert Hall. This workshop is free and open to the public.

Praised by The New York Times for its “focused, fluid performance” and by contemporary music website Sequenza 21 for its “fire, fantasy and absolute musical commitment,” the Momenta Quartet has premiered more than 50 works in the past seven years and has collaborated with more than 80 composers.

Based in New York City, the quartet performs nationally and internationally. The quartet’s repertoire ranges widely from the classics to contemporary. The members of Momenta are violinists Emilie-Anne Gendron and Adda Kridler, violist Stephanie Griffin and cellist Michael Haas.

Inspired by the current Bates College Museum of Art astrophotography exhibition Starstruck, Miura’s “Singularity” adapts cosmic radiation readings to serve as the harmonic basis for his piece.

The imagery in “Mare Tranquillitas,” a musical and video piece composed by Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, incorporates astrophotographs from Starstruck and photographs of Momenta’s instruments.

The Momenta Quartet.

Three concerts at Bates feature choral music for the holiday season, and compositions by Bates faculty played by a visiting string quartet.

The Bates College Choir performs a holiday program including Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

Presented by the Olin Arts Alive music series and the Bates College Museum of Art, the renowned Momenta Quartet performs new music by two Bates composers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4.

Both concerts take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission to the choir concerts is free, but tickets are required. Admission to the Momenta Quartet event is $12 and tickets are available at batestickets.com. Free tickets are available to the first 100 seniors and students; please reserve by calling 207-786-6163. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Bates College Choir

Directed by John Corrie, the choir presents a program featuring Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” and Eric Whitacre’s “Five Hebrew Love Songs.”

John Corrie conducts the Bates College Choir.

An internationally esteemed 20th-century English composer, Britten composed operas, orchestral music, vocal and choral works, and chamber music. Scored for three-part chorus, solo voices and harp, “Ceremony of Carols” marked Britten’s return from America to wartime England in 1942.

Each of Whitacre’s five songs captures a moment that he and his wife, soprano Hila Plitmann, shared, and which she rendered as poems that he set to music.

Momenta Quartet

The Momenta program includes the premiere of Bates composers Miura and William Matthews, as well as music by Debussy, Kee Yong Chong and Jason Kao Hwang.

Praised by The New York Times for its “focused, fluid performance” and by contemporary music website Sequenza 21 for its “fire, fantasy and absolute musical commitment,” the Momenta Quartet has premiered more than 50 works in the past seven years and has collaborated with more than 80 composers.

Based in New York City, the quartet performs nationally and internationally. The quartet’s repertoire ranges widely from the classics to contemporary. The members of Momenta are violinists Emilie-Anne Gendron and Adda Kridler, violist Stephanie Griffin and cellist Michael Haas.

Inspired by the current Bates College Museum of Art astrophotography exhibition Starstruck, Miura’s “Singularity” adapts cosmic radiation readings to serve as the harmonic basis for his piece.

The imagery in “Mare Tranquillitas,” a musical and video piece composed by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, incorporates astrophotographs from “Starstruck” and photographs of Momenta’s instruments.

The Momenta Quartet will also offer a critique of music by Bates student composers at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in Olin Concert Hall. This workshop is free and open to the public.

Hiroya Miura conducts the Bates College Orchestra.

Music written for the recent inauguration of Bates College President A. Clayton Spencer is featured in the next performance of the Bates College Orchestra, taking place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Hiroya Miura, associate professor of music, is the orchestra’s music director and conductor. Admission to the concert is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The orchestra’s program comprises Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, and the inauguration music composed by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, which begins the evening.

Matthews composed a setting for the Wallace Stevens poem “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm.” The piece was the musical centerpiece for the Oct. 26 installation of President Spencer, who chose Stevens’ contemplative poem for her inaugural program.

Stevens’ text will be sung by the Bates College Choir. Matthews’ setting also includes readings from three different cultures presented by Bates students in their native languages — Amna Ilyas, a senior from Faisalabad, Pakistan, reading in Urdu; Adnan Shami Shah, a sophomore from Kathmandu, Nepal, reading in Nepali; and So Hee Ki, a first-year student from Irvine, Calif., reading in Korean.

The Brahms work, considered a turning point in the composer’s confidence and skill in orchestral composition, is a masterful set of independent variations on a theme that was attributed to Haydn in Brahms’ day, but is now believed to be the product of a student of Haydn’s.

One of Beethoven’s most popular works, his Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, was premiered just shy of 199 years prior to the Bates performance. The piece is known for the emotional spectrum that it encompasses, from dancelike ebullience to the melancholia of the second movement. The symphony is also celebrated for the composer’s brilliant transitions from key to key.

The Capital Trio consists of Hilary Cumming, Duncan Cumming '93 and Şölen Dikener.

Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 returns to his alma mater for a performance with his Capital Trio at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The event is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required due to limited seating. For tickets and for more information, please contact 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The Capital Trio consists of 1993 Bates graduate Duncan Cumming, pianist; violinist Hilary Cumming; and cellist Sölen Dikener. Their Bates program includes a work by Bill Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates.

The trio began as the Cecilia Piano Trio in 1997. Founding and current members Duncan Cumming, pianist, and Sölen Dikener, cellist, were surprised to discover at their first rehearsal that their teachers, Frank Glazer and Paul Tortelier, had performed together in Paris and Boston almost 70 years earlier and the young performers immediately became friends.

Violinist Hilary Cumming joined the group in 1999. A review from the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette described the trio as “convincing both as strong individual musical personalities and as a cohesive unit.” 2011 saw the release of their first compact disc recording on Albany Records, A Book of Hours: Music of William Matthews. Of this recording Fanfare Magazine wrote, “The Capital Trio plays throughout with clarity, precision and manifest musicality…”

The Trio enjoyed its first International tour in May 2011, performing in England, France and Switzerland.

Duncan Cumming, now in his seventh year on the faculty of the University at Albany, has performed concertos, recitals and chamber music concerts across the United States and in Europe. A recent review describes his playing as “technically flawless… thoughtful, deliberate and balanced, without a wasted gesture or any histrionics, rather like Rachmaninoff.”

Born in Maine, Cumming graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from Bates in 1993, where he studied with artist in residence Frank Glazer. He has premiered and recorded new works for solo piano, violin and piano, and piano trio.

Hilary Walther Cumming teaches at the University at Albany. Previously she served as concertmaster of the Cape Cod Sinfonietta and the Andover Chamber Orchestra, and has performed as soloist with these ensembles as well as others including the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A versatile artist, she is comfortable in many styles including classical, baroque and Irish traditional music.

Dikener performs and teaches in the U.S. and in Turkey, where he is the director of the international summer music academy and chamber music festival Akademi Datca. In the recording studio, Dikener has premiered cello works by Turkish composers for the AK Muzik and Yesa labels.

The Bates Gamelan Orchestra in a March 2011 performance.

A piece by American composer Lou Harrison and music from central and west Java, in Indonesia, are on the program for a Bates College Gamelan Orchestra concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, in the College Chapel, 275 College St.

The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The Indonesian word “gamelan” usually refers to a collection of tuned percussion instruments that have been built and tuned to be used together.

Joining the ensemble are two members of the Bates music faculty: Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music William Matthews, who will play flute, and violist Robert Dan of the applied music faculty. Here’s the program:

With Matthews’ flute taking the place of a vocal part, “Ladrang Wilujeng (pelog pathet barang)” is a popular piece often performed to welcome guests at weddings and other special events, and also to bring good luck.

“Palwa (pelog degung)” represents a style of gamelan music that’s emblematic of the Sundanese people of West Java.

Featuring violist Dan, “Threnody for Carlos Chavez (pelog degung)” is the Lou Harrison composition. Harrison, who died in 2003, was a staunch defender of musical multiculturalism and a composer gifted at combining different musical elements to create elegant pieces with great audience appeal. Written in 1978, this is one of the earliest of a number of his works that juxtapose Western solo instruments with gamelan accompaniment.

“Gonjing Miring,” a West Javanese piece, is an upbeat work often used to accompany performances of traditional dance and puppetry. One of the Bates Gamelan Orchestra’s favorite pieces, it emphasizes the use of “interlocking” to create a single composite melody: Two xylophone-like instruments take turns playing every other note of the fast-moving melody.

The orchestra, composed of Bates students, faculty and members of the community, uses two gamelan sets. “Gamelan Mawar Mekar” (“Blossom of Inspiration”), acquired by the college in 2001, is composed of iron and brass instruments and was made in Central Java in 1997.

Called a “gamelan degung,” the other set is a smaller, bronze chamber ensemble from West Java. It was donated to the college in 2007.

Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 returns to his alma mater with violinist Hilary Cumming, his wife, to perform works of Schubert, Brahms and Dvorák at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The program also includes Duo, a composition by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For ticket reservations or more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.

Cumming is a Maine native, born in Presque Isle and raised in Wiscasset. He graduated with highest honors from Bates in 1993. His playing has been described by the Portland Press Herald as “technically flawless, thoughtful, deliberate and balanced.” Cumming has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United States and Europe including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Merkin Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City; and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2009, he received a grant to record music of Mozart and Weber on Weber’s own 1812 Brodmann fortepiano.

Also this year, Cumming’s book, The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer (Tower Books) was published. This book is a portrait of the Bates artist in residence, an internationally renowned pianist, who taught Cumming.

Cumming received a master’s degree in 1996 from the New England Conservatory, and in 2003 earned a doctorate from Boston University. He is a member of the faculties of Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute and the University at Albany.

Hilary Cumming studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has performed around the world. An adjunct professor of violin at the University at Albany, her most recent CD recording was made in August 2008 with the Musicians of the Old Post Road and is available from Meridien Records.

Along with the cellist Sölen Dikener, the Cummings constitute the Capital Piano Trio, the ensemble in residence at the University at Albany. The Cummings have two daughters and a son.

Featuring Maine’s best-known pianist and visiting performers of international renown, the piano rules Bates College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., for nine days in October.

One of the world’s foremost violin, cello and piano ensembles, the Vienna Piano Trio performs music by Beethoven, Erich Korngold and Brahms at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5.

Bates’ Noonday Concerts series presents artist-in-residence Frank Glazer and his former student Chiharu Naruse, now a performer and teacher in her own right, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor on two pianos at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9.

In a particularly “Batesy” event, pianist Duncan Cumming, another Glazer student and a member of the Bates class of 1993, premieres two preludes by Bates faculty member William Matthews at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Finally, acclaimed pianist Inon Barnatan — described as “refined, searching, unfailingly communicative” by London’s Evening Standard — opens the Bates College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. Barnatan also holds a master class in the concert hall at 11 a.m. the following day.

Admission for the Barnatan concert is $10 for the general public and $3 for students. The other events, including the Barnatan master class on Oct. 14, are open to the public at no charge. For Barnatan concert reservations or more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.

More about the performers:

(Oct. 5) Since 1988, the Vienna Piano Trio has visited virtually every major music center in Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East. Violinist Wolfgang Redik, cellist Marcus Trefny and pianist Stefan Mendl studied with such towering musical figures as Isaac Stern and Joseph Kalichstein as well as members of the Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri and LaSalle string quartets.

In 2001, Matthias Gredler replaced Trefny. Today the trio performs regularly at such festivals as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Mozartwoche Salzburg and the Beethovenfest Bonn, as well as events in Canada. They have appeared in London, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Barcelona and Berlin.

(Oct. 9) Ninety-two-year-old Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown, has taught at Bates since 1980. In a era whose pianists often strive for the gloss of mechanical precision and a big sound, Glazer instead makes all else secondary to the music’s own message.

“He has thought everything through and tried to get at the core of what the music is about. Everything he does is about that,” says colleague James Parakilas, a pianist himself and the James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts at Bates.

A Topsham resident, Glazer brings to the concert stage a highly distinguished career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder.

In October 2006, Glazer celebrated the 70th anniversary of his 1936 New York City debut by performing that debut program at Bates.

A faculty member at the Portland Conservatory of Music, Chiharu Naruse began studying piano at age 4 and studied in Japan until 1996. In 1997, she was accepted to the Hans Eisler Hochschule fuer Musik in Berlin, where she performed recitals regularly. In 2002, she moved to the United States to study with Glazer. She has given several concerts at Bates and has played with the Portland String Quartet and the Augusta Symphony.

(Oct. 10) Duncan Cumming will premiere the preludes “Two Chords” and “Prestissimo” by Matthews. “They are part of a set of eight pieces composed two years ago, exploring different styles of music and ways of making pianists work extra hard,” the composer explains.

‘Prestissimo,’ for example, usually indicates that the music should be played about as fast as possible. Yet in this quick little piece, the performer finds the word ‘stringendo’ at a certain point, which means to speed up still more.”

Cumming will also perform music by Debussy, Chopin and Weber. A native of Maine, he graduated with highest honors from Bates College in 1993, where he studied with Glazer.

In 1994, on a full scholarship from the European Mozart Foundation, he participated in chamber music study and performance at the European Mozart Academy in Prague, Czech Republic. He received his master’s in 1996 from the New England Conservatory, and in 2003 earned his doctorate from Boston University.

Cumming was on the faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., from 1994-2006. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he is assistant director of the Young Artists Piano Program. He joined the faculty of the University at Albany in fall 2006.

Cumming frequently collaborates in double concerto, two-piano and four-hand repertoire with Glazer, and performs with his wife Hilary, violinist and head of applied music at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass.

Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, Matthews is a composer and conductor who studied at Oberlin, the University of Iowa, Yale and the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. A recipient of several national awards and commissions, he is particularly interested in electronic and computer-generated music, and in American music of all types. He teaches composition along with courses in jazz and popular music.

(Oct. 13–14) In the opening performance of the 2007–08 Bates College Concert Series, Barnatan will play sonatas by Haydn, Barber and Schubert. A Dallas Morning News reviewer wrote of Barnatan, “This young Israeli, only 27, has had some great teachers and won some important prizes — who hasn’t these days? But he really might be on the level of [iconic pianists] Artur Schnabel or Leon Fleisher.”

Despite his youth, Barnatan has built a flourishing reputation through orchestral, recital and chamber performances worldwide. He is praised for his poetic and passionate playing and his thoughtful programming. Recent seasons have brought him to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein and the Arts Theatre in Shanghai.

His debut CD, a Schubert collection for Bridge Records, was released in June 2006 to great critical applause. Also in 2006, Barnatan devised a project of compositions from Schubert’s last year of life that he will present this season with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and guest artists.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Barnatan started piano at age 4 and made his orchestral debut at 11. He resides in New York City.

A work by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, is featured as musicians from the Portland Chamber Music Festival return to Bates for a concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

“Live chamber music doesn’t get any better than this,” a Portland Press Herald reviewer said of the PCMF in 1995. Jennifer Elowitch, a violinist from Portland, and pianist Dena Levine founded the festival in 1994 to bring a new freshness to summer music in Maine — emphasizing contemporary music and hidden gems of the established repertoire, performed by top young players from around the country.

At Bates, Elowitch, Levine, violinist Gabriela Diaz, violist Carol Rodland and cellist Andrew Mark will perform Gustav Mahler’s youthful Piano Quartet; Antonin Dvorak’s String Quartet in F major (Op. 96), nicknamed the “American” quartet; and Matthews’ A Book of Hours, a work for string trio written in 1997.

“We are really looking forward to performing Professor Matthews‘ piece at Bates,” says Elowitch. “His love of jazz and excellent sense of humor really come through, and that’s fun for us within the context of the ‘straight’ classical pieces on the program. I suspect the piece will be a real crowd-pleaser.”

In August, the chamber music festival celebrates its 14th season with inaugural performances in its new home, the University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Community Education Center, Portland. Since its inception, the festival has presented more than 70 concerts featuring nationally acclaimed performers and composers from the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America.

Festival concerts have been heard on Maine Public Radio’s Mainestage and are broadcast each year by WGBH-FM in Boston. The PCMF has been featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and carried live on WGBH’s Classical Performances program. The festival will be the subject of a feature story in an upcoming issue of the national Chamber Music magazine.

Strongly committed to new works, the PCMF has twice received grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music in recognition of its “contribution to furthering public interest and appreciation of contemporary American music.”

The festival’s 2007 season (Aug. 16–25) includes members of the St. Louis and Chicago symphonies and the New York Philharmonic, along with soloists, chamber musicians and music faculty members from across the country.

The festival presents annual Free Family Concerts in Portland, and has held two adult amateur chamber music workshops in recent seasons. In addition, the PCMF has presented master classes for local students and a workshop for senior citizens.

PCMF executive director and co-artistic director Elowitch, a Portland native, is the assistant principal second violinist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and performs regularly with the Boston Symphony. A champion of contemporary music, she has appeared with Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music and other contemporary ensembles in the Boston area. She is on the faculties of Bowdoin College and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.

Levine, PCMF artistic co-director, has appeared at the Marlboro and Tanglewood festivals and in series in Europe and Asia. As a founding member of the Laurel Trio, she was a winner of the Concert Artists Guild and ProPiano competitions. She is assistant professor of piano at Seton Hall University and directs the school’s concert series.

New music by a Bates faculty member and an afternoon of music for violin and piano highlight the performance offerings at Bates College on the second weekend of May.

William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, offers a concert of his own compositions at 8 p.m. Friday, May 7.

Another Matthews composition appears on a program offered by violinist Mary Jo Carlsen, of the Colby College faculty, and pianist Frank Glazer, Bates artist in residence, at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 9. The pair will also perform music by Mozart and Brahms.

Both concerts are open to the public at no charge and take place in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Titled Voicescapes, Matthews’ program consists of music composed with computer and created from vocal texts and the sounds of nature. The four compositions are “Island” (1989), adapting sounds collected on Islesboro, Maine; “The 89 Camels of Hadji Ali” (2003), from a musical-theater work about the 19th-century U.S. Army Camel Corps in Arizona; “Von Amy mit Liebe” (2004), a song based on a text by Richard Wagner; and “Rilke Remix Redux, mit Ralf” (2002-2004) settings of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets of Orpheus, read by Portland soprano Christina Astrachan and others.

Carlsen, an applied music associate at Colby, and Glazer, arguably Maine’s best-known pianist, will collaborate on Mozart’s Sonata in A (K. 526) and Brahms’ Sonata in D minor (Op. 108). Carlsen will perform “Ballade,” a piece for solo violin and narrator, from Matthews’ “89 Camels.”

Matthews has been on the Bates faculty for 26 years and was named the first Alice Swanson Esty professor of music in 1997. A flutist as well as an accomplished composer, his more-than 60 works include solo instrumental, vocal, chamber, orchestral, choral and theatrical music. Matthews has received several national awards and commissions for his work and teaches jazz and popular music as well as composition.

Carlsen is a recitalist in New England on violin, viola and Baroque violin, performing music from the Renaissance through the 21st century. She performs with the Portland Symphony, Portland Opera Repertory Theater, the Bangor Symphony and as a member of the Carlsen/Tschanz Duo. At Colby since 1985, she teaches violin, coaches chamber music and is concertmaster of the Colby Symphony.

Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980, is an artist of international stature who taught at the Eastman School of Music for 15 years before retiring to Maine with his wife, Ruth, in 1980. A student of pianist Artur Schnabel in the 1930s and ’40s, Glazer is one of the few remaining proteges of that great musician. Glazer’s long career includes numerous recordings, his own television program in the 1950s and countless solo recitals and ensemble performances around the world.

William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, offers a concert of his own compositions at 8 p.m. Friday, May 7.

Another Matthews composition appears on a program offered by violinist Mary Jo Carlsen, of the Colby College faculty, and pianist Frank Glazer, Bates artist in residence, at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 9. The pair will also perform music by Mozart and Brahms.

Both concerts are open to the public at no charge and take place in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

Titled “Voicescapes,” Matthews’ program consists of music composed with computer and created from vocal texts and the sounds of nature. The four compositions are “Island” (1989), adapting sounds collected on Islesboro, Maine; “The 89 Camels of Hadji Ali” (2003), from a musical-theater work about the 19th-century U.S. Army Camel Corps in Arizona; “Von Amy mit Liebe” (2004), a song based on a text by Richard Wagner; and “Rilke Remix Redux, mit Ralf” (2002-2004) settings of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets of Orpheus,” read by Portland soprano Christina Astrachan and others.

Carlsen, an applied music associate at Colby, and Glazer, arguably Maine’s best-known pianist, will collaborate on Mozart’s Sonata in A (K. 526) and Brahms’ Sonata in D minor (Op. 108). Carlsen will perform “Ballade,” a piece for solo violin and narrator, from Matthews’ “89 Camels.”

Matthews has been on the Bates faculty for 26 years and was named the first Alice Swanson Esty professor of music in 1997. A flutist as well as an accomplished composer, his more-than 60 works include solo instrumental, vocal, chamber, orchestral, choral and theatrical music. Matthews has received several national awards and commissions for his work and teaches jazz and popular music as well as composition.

Carlsen is a recitalist in New England on violin, viola and Baroque violin, performing music from the Renaissance through the 21st century. She performs with the Portland Symphony, Portland Opera Repertory Theater, the Bangor Symphony and as a member of the Carlsen/Tschanz Duo. At Colby since 1985, she teaches violin, coaches chamber music and is concertmaster of the Colby Symphony.

Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980, is an artist of international stature who taught at the Eastman School of Music for 15 years before retiring to Maine with his wife, Ruth, in 1980. A student of pianist Artur Schnabel in the 1930s and ’40s, Glazer is one of the few remaining proteges of that great musician. Glazer’s long career includes numerous recordings, his own television program in the 1950s and countless solo recitals and ensemble performances around the world.