LEWISTON – Five musicians from the Portland Chamber Music Festival will perform at Bates College Sunday, Oct. 3. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Founded in 1993 by violinist Jennifer Elowitch of Portland and pianist Dena Levine of New York City, the festival presents programs that blend established and new repertoire.

Both Elowitch and Levine will take part in the Bates concert. The program includes Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola by Bohuslav Martinu; Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A major and Three Pieces for Violin and Cello by festival cellist Thomas Kraines, who will introduce and perform in it. Violinist Juliette Kang and violist Carol Rodland complete the lineup of players.

Since its first season in 1994, the music festival has presented performers from the United States, Europe and Latin America, and now enjoys a strong community following and a growing national reputation. Its concerts are featured on Maine Public Radio’s “MaineStage” program and on WGBH radio in Boston, and it has been featured on Maine Public Television and on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.”

Recognized for its strong commitment to new music, the festival’s resident composers have included Osvaldo Golijov and Elliott Schwartz.

Elowitch, the festival’s executive director and co-artistic director with Levine, is the assistant principal second violinist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. She also performs with the Boston Symphony and Emmanuel Music, with whom she toured Europe. She is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.

Levine is assistant professor of piano at Seton Hall University. She has appeared at the Marlboro and Tanglewood festivals and in concerts in Europe and Asia. As a founding member of the Laurel Trio, she won the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the ProPiano Competition.

Kraines, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, is gaining recognition worldwide as a cellist and composer. Formerly a member of the Peabody Trio, he currently performs in a duo with his wife, violinist Juliette Kang. He is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and Phillips Academy.

Gold medalist in the 1994 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Kang is assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and previously worked with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Her solo engagements have included the San Francisco Symphony and l’Orchestre National de France .

Violist Carol Rodland made her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 17. Prior to joining the faculty at the New England Conservatory, she held professorships at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin and at Arizona State University. She won first prizes at the Washington International Competition, the Artists International Auditions and the Juilliard Concerto Competition.

The concert is open to the public at no cost. FMI: call 786-6135.