For more information on festival concerts, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.

Sixth Annual Dine-On Gala and Auction

Tuesday, June 25, 5:30 p.m., Moulton Union, Bowdoin College. Tickets: $150

Contact Kippy Rudy, 373-1440 or kippy@bowdoinfestival.org.

Wednesday Upbeat!

Wednesday, June 26, 7:30 p.m., Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Tickets: $40

— Upbeat! opens with Lou Harrison’s Varied Trio, which, like much of Harrison’s work, incorporates elements of the music of non-Western cultures.

Pianist Emma Tahmizin, percussionist Luke Rinderknecht and violinist Laura Lutzke perform. Lutzke is one of this year’s Bowdoin Virtuosi, a program that gives extraordinary emerging artists opportunities to teach and perform as they prepare for life as a professional classical musicians.

— The Ying Quartet will follow with Sergei Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 92, in which Prokofiev utilized Kabardino-Balkar folk themes. Evidence of the folk character is found in the string quartet’s imitation of plucked and percussion instruments, including an imitation of a Caucasian stringed instrument in the second movement.

— Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77 will close out the concert, performed by Sergiu Schwartz and Laura Lutzke, violins; Carol Rodland, viola; Keiko Ying, cello; and Kurt Muroki, doublebass. Dvorak also employed features of folk music, particularly that of what is now the Czech Republic.

Artists of Tomorrow

Thursday, June 27, 7:30 p.m., Studzinski Recital Hall. Tickets: $10 suggested donation

A student concert will feature the festival’s top students performing classical works. The student concert program will be announced the day of the concert. To receive email announcements of student concert programs, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.

Festival Fridays

Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m., Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School. Tickets: $40

Features works by Mozart, Brahms and Shostakovich.

— Flutist Linda Chesis will lead Mozart’s Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 285b, accompanied by Laura Lutzke, violin; Carol Rodland, viola; and Rosemary Elliott, cello. Chesis studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatory, has been a top prize winner at the Paris and Barcelona International Competitions, and has been called one of the most exciting and dynamic flutists of her generation.

— The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet, in its 11th year in residence at the festival, follows with Johannes Brahms’ String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2.

— In the finale, violinists and husbandand wife team Ilya and Olga Kaler lead a power-packed ensemble in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57. Karen Dreyfus plays viola; Steven Doane, cello; and Boris Slutsky, piano.

Bowdoin Festival Extra

— Tuesday, June 25, 4 p.m., Studzinski Recital Hall. Free.

June Han, a member of the faculties of Yale, Columbia and Julliard, and a performer with the New York Philharmonic, will give a harp technique class.

— Thursday, June 27, 4 p.m., Studzinski Recital Hall. Free.

A panel of Chamber musicians performing in the festival’s first week — Laura Lutzke, Kurt Muroki, and Phillip and David Ying — will discuss “A Life in Chamber Music.”

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