BRUNSWICK — Virtuoso violinist Sarah Chang will perform Antonin Dvo?ák’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 in the Bowdoin International Music Festival’s Friday, July 25 concert. Ms. Chang, a Pennsylvania native, had her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 8. Since then, she has performed with the greatest orchestras, conductors, and accompanists internationally in a career spanning more than two decades. This is her first Bowdoin Festival appearance. Also on the program are works by Claude Debussy and George Crumb.

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis will collaborate with pianist Peter Basquin to open the concert with Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano.

The three original performers of the Aeolian Chamber Players’ recording of George Crumb’s Grammy-nominated Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) will reconvene for an anniversary performance of the work. Erich Graf, flute; Jerry Grossman, cello; and Walter Ponce, piano, who recorded the work for Columbia Records in 1974, return to celebrate the Bowdoin Festival’s fifty-year commitment to new music.

Chang’s Dvo?ák Concerto, performed with the Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, will close the concert. Lewis Kaplan will conduct.

Festival Fridays concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets are $40.

Beethoven String Quartets Monday Night

Beethoven’s string quartet cycle is being presented in its entirety this season by the Bowdoin Festival. The renowned Pacifica Quartet performs the fifth concert in the series on July 28, with Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6; String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 (“Harp”); and String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No.2. The Pacifica Quartet’s first Bowdoin Festival appearance is particularly appropriate this year, as three of the quartet’s members are Festival alumni.

Beethoven Mondays concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets are $40.

Koh, Saariaho in Wednesday Concert

The Wednesday Upbeat! concert on July 30 presents the world premiere of a piano trio commissioned by the Aeolian Chamber Players in honor of the Bowdoin International Music Festival’s fiftieth anniversary season by guest composer Kaija Saariaho, as well as works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh, a Bowdoin Festival alumna, will open the concert with Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, BVW 1041, accompanied by the Bowdoin Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Koh will then return to the stage with cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Benjamin Hochman to perform Saariaho’s Light and Matter. Saariaho, a Finnish composer whose daughter recently attended the Festival, is currently working on a commission from the Metropolitan Opera.

A powerhouse group of Festival artists will take the stage for the concert’s second half, Mozart’s String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516. Performers include Mikhail Kopelman and Renee Jolles, violins; Rami Solomonow and Dimitri Murrath, violas; and Meta Weiss, cello.

Wednesday Upbeat! concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall on the Bowdoin campus. Tickets are $40.

Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music

Each year, the Charles Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music presents three days of concerts by renowned living composers, the Festival’s top student composers, and the winner of the annual Student Composition Competition. This year’s program will include past commissioned works and world premieres, including Luciano Berio’s O, King, George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965, Mario Davidovsky’s Junctures, and Elliott Schwartz’ A Garden for RKB.

Gamper Festival concerts are held in Studzinski Recital Hall. Suggested donation $10.

Artists of Tomorrow

Artists of Tomorrow student concerts, featuring the Festival’s top students, will be held on Sunday and Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. and Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall.

Student concert programs are announced the day of the concert. To receive announcements of student concert programs by email, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org. Suggested donation $10.

Schubert’s Trout Quintet on August 1

The Bowdoin Festival’s Friday, August 1 concert presents an evening of lovely chamber music, culminating in Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major, D.667, commonly known at the Trout Quintet. Also on the program are works by Maurice Ravel and Sebastian Currier.

Beloved harpist June Han will make her only 2014 Bowdoin Festival appearance, opening the concert with violinist Muneko Otani in Currier’s Night Time, a work, in Currier’s own words, of “quietude, introversion, intimacy, and subdued restlessness.”

Violinist Renee Jolles will then lead Nicholas Canellakis, cello, and Constance Moore, piano, in Ravel’s revelatory, ground-breaking Piano Trio in A Minor.

The evening’s program will close with Schubert’s delightful Trout Quintet, performed by Frank Huang, violin; Caroline Coade, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Kurt Muroki, doublebass; and Yong Hi Moon, piano.

Festival Fridays concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. in Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater. Tickets are $40.

Bowdoin Festival Extra

Sunday evening will bring a concert to the Maine Lodge at Sebasco Harbor Resort in Sebasco Estates at 8 p.m. All Bowdoin Festival Extra events are free and open to the public.

A complete listing of all Festival performances and ticket information can be found at www.bowdoinfestival.org. For more information, call 207-725-3895.