BRUNSWICK

The Bowdoin International Music Festival offers concerts or classes every day of the coming week.

The festival’s concert this evening will showcase former festival student Kier GoGwilt in Beethoven’s Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra. Dvorak’s Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 will also be on the program.

GoGwilt, who attended the Bowdoin Festival from 2005 to 2009, will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in St. Petersburg, Russia, under the baton of Valery Gergiev in the fall. This is his first Bowdoin Festival appearance as a soloist with orchestra. Festival Director Lewis Kaplan will conduct.

Renee Jolles, concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, will lead Dvorak’s Terzetto. She will be joined by Muneko Otani, the first violin of the Cassatt Quartet, and the award-winning violist Dimitri Murrath.

Flutist Randy Bowman will lead the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, accompanied by a stellar faculty ensemble that includes violinists Suyoen Kim, Janet Sung and Yang Xu; violist Caroline Coade; cellist Taide Prieto-Carpio; bassist Kurt Muroki; and keyboard artist Tao Lin on harpsichord.

Festival Fridays concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets cost $40.

Monday Sonatas

Violinist Sergiu Schwartz will join Peter Basquin to open the July 23 Monday Sonatas concert with Mendelssohn’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Major. The duo met at the Bowdoin Festival and now perform together in the off season in the New York area. They first performed this work together at Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College, CUNY on March 8 this year.

Cellist Yehuda Hanani will then join Emma Tahmizian on stage to present Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano.

Jesus Rodriguez Gonzalez, returning for a second year in the Bowdoin Virtuosi program, will follow with Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Solo Viola No. 4, Op. 30.

The concert will conclude with Robert Schumann’s Six Etudes in the Form of a Canon transcribed for two pianos by Debussy. Yong Hi Moon and festival newcomer James Giles will perform.

Giles has received many awards, including first prizes in the New Orleans and Joanna Hodges International Piano Competitions. Moon, a Bowdoin Festival veteran, has also won many prizes and performs extensively throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. as a recitalist and with orchestras.

Monday Sonatas concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall on the Bowdoin College campus. Tickets are $30.

Wednesday Upbeat!

Hanani and Tahmizian return to the stage in the July 25 Wednesday Upbeat! concert, performing Bach’s Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord. Hanani has appeared throughout the world as a soloist and recitalist and is the founder and artistic director of Close Encounters With Music. The work will be performed on modern instruments.

Composer in residence Samuel Adler will then present his Arcos Concerto for woodwind instruments and string orchestra. Emily Brown will conduct.

After intermission, Peter Basquin will take the stage with a trio of dynamic young musicians to perform Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1.

Violinist Janet Sung enjoys an international career as a virtuoso soloist, performing with leading orchestras and in recitals worldwide.

Cellist David Requiro has won first prize in several competitions, including the 2008 Naumburg International Violoncello Competition, and violist Jesus Rodriguez Gonzalez won the 2010 Angel Muniz Toca prize, among others.

Wednesday Upbeat! concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall on the Bowdoin College campus. Tickets are $30.

Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music

The Charles E. Gamper Festival has presented the works of 20th century and contemporary American composers, including the festival’s composers in-residence, guest composers and top participants since 1965.

Concerts are at 7:30 p.m. on July 26, 28 and 29 in Studzinski Recital Hall.

Thursday’s concert will present works by Jacob Druckman, Noam Faingold, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jonathan Keren, festival guitar teacher Ricardo Iznaola and Toru Takemitsu.

Saturday’s concert will present works by Richard Francis, Gyorgy Kurtag, Michael Lee, Kaija Saariaho, Elliot Schwartz, Hainu Tan and Charles Wuorinen.

Tan is the winner of the Bowdoin Festival’s fifth annual student composition competition. Schwartz’ composition, Remembering David, is the world premiere of work written in memory of David Gamper. Gamper, a composer in his own right, was a student of Schwartz in the 1960s at Bowdoin College. The Gamper Festival is named for his father, Charles Gamper, and early patron of contemporary music at the Bowdoin Festival.

Sunday’s concert will present works by this summer’s composers in residence, Samuel Adler and Derek Bermel, plus Nick DiBerardino, Ramon Lazkano and Tobias Picker.

Artists of Tomorrow

This week’s Artists of Tomorrow concerts, featuring the festival’s top students, take place on Sunday and Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoon in Studzinski Recital Hall.

Suggested donation is $10. Student concert programs are announced the day of the concert.

To receive email announcements of student concert programs, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.

Bowdoin Festival Extra

The Bowdoin Festival’s educational series, Bowdoin Festival Extra, continues this week with two concerts and three instrumental demonstrations. The two concerts, which present the festival’s faculty and top students, are at Sebasco Harbor Resort at 8 p.m. on Sunday, July 22, and at the Freeport Community Center at noon on Tuesday, July 24.

The instrumental demonstrations are by Frank Huang, violin (Tuesday, July 24); Patricia Rogers, bassoon (Wednesday, July 25); and Yehuda Hanani, cello (Friday, July 27).

All of the instrumental technique classes start at 4 p.m. in Gibson Hall on the Bowdoin College campus. They are intended for the instruction of the festival’s composition and instrumental students, but are also open to public observers.

All Bowdoin Festival Extra events are free and open to the public.

For a complete listing of all festival events and ticket information, visit bowdoinfestival.org. For more information, call 725-3895.