LEWISTON — The DaPonte String Quartet, bassist Richard Hartshorne and pianist Chiharu Naruse will join forces for two of chamber music’s best-loved works on Thursday, Oct. 14, at Bates College.

The program comprises Dvorak’s quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 (“American”) and Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 (“Trout”).

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets required. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 786-6135.

Members of the DaPonte quartet are cellist Myles Jordan, violist Kirsten Monke and violinists Lydia Forbes and Ferdinand “Dino” Liva. Founded in Philadelphia in 1991, the quartet first came to Maine in 1995 on a Rural Residency Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America.

Unlike many artists who undertake residencies in rural communities, the DaPonte musicians and their families put down roots in Maine. Today, the quartet is a pillar of the state’s chamber music community. Profiled in The New York Times and on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the foursome has an active performing schedule and is known for its youth-education programs.

Naruse is a member of the applied music faculties at Bates, the University of Maine Farmington, the Portland Conservatory of Music and the Bay Chamber School. A native of Japan, she studied with renowned pianist Frank Glazer, an artist-in-residence at Bates, following her move to the United States in 2002.

An internationally renowned double bassist, Hartshorne was a member of the Apple Hill Chamber Players for 30 years and served as director of its summer festival. In 2004, Hartshorne formed the nonprofit Bach With Verse, traveling extensively to bring music to underserved audiences around the world.

Premiered in 1894, the String Quartet No. 12 is one of Dvorak’s best-known chamber works. Written while the composer was living in America, and around the same time as his “New World” Symphony, the piece is celebrated for its marriage of Middle European style with characteristically American touches — an African American spiritual, the song of a Midwestern bird, the presence of a train.

Nicknamed the “Trout Quintet” because it refers to an earlier Schubert song titled “The Trout,” the Piano Quintet in A major is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. Written in 1819 by Schubert but not published until a decade later, after the composer’s death, it is known in particular for distinctively attractive sonorities, especially in the piano writing.