LEWISTON – The Bates College Orchestra will perform music by Barber, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky Saturday, March 18.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Directed by Hiroya Miura, the orchestra will play the Adagio for Strings, perhaps the best-known work by Samuel Barber; Antonin Dvorak’s Serenade No. 2 in D minor; and Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Suite No. 4, nicknamed “Mozartiana” because of themes the Russian composer adapted from Mozart, whom he idolized.

A native of Sendai, Japan, Miura has worked as a composer, conductor and improvisational musician in Canada and the United States. His music has been played by such acclaimed groups as Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble and So Percussion. Two of his works will be performed in an April 25 concert at Bates by TimeTable, a New York-based percussion trio.

Miura served as assistant conductor to George Rothman and Jeffrey Milarsky with the Columbia University Orchestra. He is a founding member of the electronic improvisation unit, NoOneReceiving, whose debut album “The Release of the Wandering-Eyed Girl” in 2002 earned acclaim in Europe and the United States.

In addition to his conducting duties, Miura teaches composition and music theory at Bates.

The concert is open to the public at no cost. For more information, call 786-6135.