BRUNSWICK — Apartments and residence halls on the Bowdoin College campus and homes around town are filling with more than 250 musicians from 25 countries as they prepare to teach, study and perform at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

Every sunmmer for the past 46 years, renowned teachers, soloists and classical musicians from around the globe have come to Bowdoin for six weeks of intensive chamber music study, collaboration and concerts.

Musicians come from groups such as the New York Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra, the Ying and Shanghai quartets, and major conservatories including Juilliard, Eastman, Indiana, Shanghai and London’s Royal College, according to the college’s website.

All told, more than 80 concerts will be presented on the college campus.

This year’s festival salutes the 200th anniversary of the births of Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin with solo recitals, master classes, chamber concerts and full-scale orchestral performances.

The concert season officially begins on June 30 with the first Wednesday Upbeat! concert featuring pianist Boris Slutsky, a concert artist and Peabody Institute of Music faculty member. He has won numerous piano competitions and has performed throughout the world as a soloist and recitalist.

Slutsky will perform Chopin’s Polonaise Fantasy, Op.61 in his first Bowdoin Festival appearance.

Also performing at the 7:30 p.m. concert will be the Grammy-winning Ying Quartet, which will present Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9 in E Flat Major, Op. 117. The program opens with Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, featuring festival artists Maria Schleuning, violin; Rosemary Elliott, cello; and Elinor Freer, piano.

Tickets to the concert in Studzinski Recital Hall are $25.

For a complete schedule of festival events, which includes seven concert series, log on to www.bowdoinfestival.org. For more information, call the box office at 725-3895.