BOWDOIN — The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s July 20 concert 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 2005-2009, will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in St Petersburg, Russia, under the baton of Valery Gergiev in the fall. This is his first  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 award-winning violist Dimitri Murrath.

Flutist Randy Bowman will lead the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, accompanied by a 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 are at 7:30 pm in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets are $40.

Bowdoin International Music Festival events are scheduled daily through Aug. 3. Other festival concerts through July 27 follow:

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July 22, 7:30 p.m.: Artists of Tomorrow concert, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Suggested donation: $10.

July 23, 7:30 p.m.: Monday Sonatas concert, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Schumann, Hindemith, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Tickets: $30.

July 24, noon, Bowdoin Festival Extra concert, Freeport Community Center

July 24, 7:30 p.m.: Artists of Tomorrow concert, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Suggested donation: $10.

July 25, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Upbeat! concert, Bach, Adler, Dvorak, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Tickets: $30.

July 26, 1:30 p.m.: Artists of Tomorrow concert, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Suggested donation: $10.

July 26, 7:30 p.m., Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music concert, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College. Suggested donation: $10.

July 27, 7:30 p.m.: Festival Fridays concert; Bach Brandenburg 2, Brahms, Beethoven; Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School. Tickets: $40.

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

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