LEWISTON — On Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20, guest conductor Graybert Beacham will lead the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 and Josef Suk’s “Scherzo Fantastique.”

Harp soloist Piper Runnion-Bareford will join the orchestra for Debussy’s “Danses: Sacree et Profane” and Gabriel Pierne’s Concertstueck for harp.

Saturday night’s concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Franco-American Heritage Center. Sunday’s performance will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center at Mount Ararat Middle School in Topsham.

Runnion-Bareford has played as soloist for numerous orchestras around New England and has played as principal harp for the Curtis Symphony, Nashua Chamber, Maine State Ballet and Brockton Symphony orchestras, as well as the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic, the New Hampshire Philharmonic, the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony.

While in England, Runnion-Bareford was a member of the Prince Consort Harp Ensemble and represented the Royal College of Music at the World Harp Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.

After graduating first in her class in 2006 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, she was accepted at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where she is taking final courses for masters degrees in urban ministry and divinity. She performs regularly throughout New England, both as a soloist and as a member of the Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble. She maintains a growing studio teaching harp as well as Suzuki piano at the Manchester (N.H.) Community Music School.

Beacham, a violinist and violist, has been an active performer and teacher throughout the United States and abroad. He holds bachelor and master degrees in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he received the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin.

He has performed with the Mexico City Philharmonic, Tulsa Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and Kansas City Philharmonic. He has also served as acting concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and as concertmaster and soloist for the Cascade Festival of Music in Oregon.

With the Portland Symphony, he has performed as concertmaster, principal second violin, principal viola and soloist. In January, he toured China as a violin soloist with the New Sousa Band.

Beacham is applied music associate in violin and viola at Colby College, where he teaches chamber music and serves as concertmaster for the Colby Symphony Orchestra. He is also string specialist for Maine School Administrative District No. 58, where he is instituting a districtwide string program. He maintains an active performing schedule with the Nordica Trio and performs with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Recorded performances have been broadcast over public radio stations across the United States and Mexico, and he has recorded for Albany Records.

Concert tickets are $15, students 18 and younger admitted free. For tickets, call 846-5378; log on to www.midcoastsyphony.org; visit Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick or Now You’re Cooking in Bath; or buy them at the door.