LEWISTON – A trio led by Andy Statman, who parlayed 1970s acclaim as a “Newgrass” mandolinist into renewed renown as a klezmer clarinetist, will open the 2005-06 Bates College Concert Series Sunday, Oct. 9.

The series of four 8 p.m. concerts also features the quartet led by jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett on Jan. 6, the St. Lawrence String Quartet on Feb. 4 and a program of South American music by classical guitarist Michael Nigro on March 4.

Concerts take place on the Bates campus in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and non-Bates students with ID. For more information about the series and Olin Concert Hall, visit the Web site http://abacus.bates.edu/concerts. For reservations, call (207) 786-6135.

In what Statman has called “a very conversational style of playing,” the Andy Statman Trio ranges over a musical landscape stretching from the American South to Eastern Europe to Central Asia.

The Kenny Garrett Quartet is dedicated to sustaining the freshness and vitality of jazz. Firmly rooted in the bebop he performed with legends Miles Davis and Art Blakey, Garrett Garrett was hired by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and in the 1980s worked with Blakey and Woody Shaw.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is Canada’s premiere chamber ensemble.

The quartet’s Bates program includes music by Beethoven, Mozart and Shostakovich.

Classical guitarist Michael Nigro will play music by South American composers including Máximo Diego Pujol, Adolfo Luna, Jorge Morel, Jorge Cardoso, Augustine Barrios and Antonio Lauro.