FRYEBURG — Seven musicians of the International Musical Arts Institute will return to Fryeburg Academy’s the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on Friday, July 17, to bring an evening of classical chamber music to the audience of Mt. Washington Valley/Western Maine for a 19th year.

The institute was founded in 1997 by the late eminent violinist and pedagogue, Eric Rosenblith, who served for more than a quarter century as chairman of the string department at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. With his wife, Carol, he directed the institute from its first season in 1997 until his death in December of 2010.

Each July from 1997 to 2013, the International Musical Arts Institute was in residence at Fryeburg Academy, and during that time it brought together more than 230 performers, both young aspiring musicians and seasoned artists of international reputation, all representing some 30 nations on five continents.

IMAI’s annual summer residency program became renowned for intensive study, artistic development and for the joy of music-making, which was shared with concert audiences and was then to become its late founder’s living legacy of musical and artistic excellence.

This year’s roster of IMAI musicians includes violinists Ben Sayevich and Moncia Pegis, violists Tim Deighton and Sebastian Ruth, cellists Harel Gietheim and Joel Moerschel and pianist Lolita Lisovskaya, all of whom are former students and/or colleagues of Eric Rosenblith.

The program will include Gabriel Fauré’s “Après un Rêve, op. 7, no. 1” (arranged for viola and piano by Wolfgang Birtel), the “Piano Quartet in c minor, Op. 60” by Johannes Brahms, and Tchaikovsky’s sextet for strings, “Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70.”

Admission at the door is $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. FMI: www.imaifestival.org.

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