The Portland String Quartet will perform at St. Joseph’s College in Standish on Monday, July 30, and Monday, Aug. 6. The performances, held in conjunction with its two-week summer workshop residency at St. Joseph’s College, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Viola George Auditorium at Alfond Hall.

The Portland String Quartet has been performing, teaching and recording since 1969. The group has released 17 albums featuring music from Bach to contemporary, toured internationally, and won critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and publications around the world.

The program for July 30 includes “String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 (The Sunrise)” by Joseph Haydn; “Lullaby for String Quartet” by George Gershwin; and “String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 68” by Dimitri Shostakovich. The Aug. 6 concert will feature “Shaker Variations for Cello and Viola” (2007) by Elliott Schwartz; “Serenade for Two Violins and Viola” by Zoltan Kodaly; and “String Quartet in F Major” by Maurice Ravel.

Tickets are $20, $18 for seniors and free for students 21 and under, and will be sold at the door (no advance sales or reservations; cash or checks only). Call 893-7723 or 893-7845 for more information or visit www.portlandstringquartet.org.

The Portland String Quartet’s summer workshop students will also perform free concerts on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Viola George Auditorium at St. Joseph’s College. They will perform works by Mendelssohn, Haydn, Beethoven, Chadwick, Brahms, Dvorak, Bloch, Shostakovich and Debussy. The concerts present the major repertoire that the student ensembles will prepare during the 32nd Annual Portland String Quartet Workshop, held this year for the first time at St. Joseph’s College. The summer workshop is a two-week session of intensive chamber music study and performance for a select group of students from all over the country.