FARMINGTON — The Maine Mountain Chamber Music will present a concert featuring works by Bartok, Brahms and Dohnanyi on Sunday, Sept. 26, at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Leading off the cast of musicians will be violinist Joseph Swensen, principal conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Malmo Opera of Sweden, and conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

The program is designed to appeal to newcomers to classical music, instrumental students and experienced aficionados alike, according to MMCM co-director Laurie Kennedy.

Swensen has recorded the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Sibelius with the Royal Phil Harmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Also new to Farmington will be clarinetist Eric Thomas, who has received critical acclaim from the N.Y. Times, the L.A. Times, the Boston Globe and Downbeat Magazine.

The roster for the fall 2010 program will also include Victoria Eisen on horn, Tom Kraines on cello, Kennedy on viola and MMCM co-director Yuri Funahashi on piano.

The program will open with Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances for Violin and Piano, based on folk songs and dances collected by Bartok from peasants and gypsies. Next on the program is Brahms’ Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, one of his Brahms’ last works (written shortly after he had completed the details of his will).

The program will close with a work composed by Hungarian composer Dohnanyi written around 1935 for the unusual combination of clarinet, horn, string trio and piano.

The concert in Nordica Auditorium, put on by the Arts Institute of Western Maine, will begin at 3 p.m. Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and free for UMF students and those younger than 16. For more information, call 645-2157.