BRUNSWICK – The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s July 8 MusicFest concert features works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

The evening’s program opens with cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performing Bach’s “Chaconne,” a work usually performed on the violin.

Tsutsumi returns to the Bowdoin Festival again this year to teach and perform. A native of Japan, Tsutsumi made his concert debut at the age of 12 with the Tokyo Philharmonic. He has appeared with the Warsaw Philharmonic, London’s Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, among others. A faculty member of Indiana University, this concert will be Tsutsumi’s only MusicFest appearance.

The Ying Quartet will perform Beethoven’s “Serioso” string quartet, completed in 1810. Recipients of the International Cleveland Quartet Competition Award in 1989, the quartet began to tour in 1992, and in 1993 won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. 2005 is the Yings’ third summer that siblings Timothy, Janet, Philip, and David Ying are at Bowdoin.

The evening’s program concludes with Brahm’s Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115. Inspiration for this composition came from an 1891 visit to the Meiningen, Germany court orchestra. Considered one of the greatest chamber pieces for the clarinet and strings, it incorporates a wide combination of texture and tone color. Featured is Avery Fisher award-winning clarinetist Igor Begelman, a former Festival student from the Ukraine.

Rounding out the quintet are festival director Lewis Kaplan and Maria Schleuning on violin; Michael Klotz, viola; and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi.

All Friday night MusicFest concerts are at 8 p.m. in air-conditioned Crooker Theatre at Brunswick High School. Tickets are $25. For ticket information or details, call the box office at 725-3895 or visit the festival Web site:www.bowdoinfestival.org