August 4, at 7 p.m.:  Music from the Middle Ages. The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron will present ”A French Songbook, c. 1350–1470, from Machaut to Ockeghem,“ with singers Sophie Michaux and Jason McStoots along with Charles Weaver on lute and Scott Metcalfe playing harp and fiddle.

 

August 11, at 7 p.m.: The Ying Quartet: Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violins; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello. They will perform Béla Bartók’s string quartet no. 2; Derek Bermel’s Songs of Nameless Ancestors; Antonín Dvořák’s string quartet in F major, Op. 96, “American.”

August 18, at 7 p.m.: The Verona Quartet: Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins;  Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello. They will perform Maurice Ravel’s string quartet in G major; a suite of American jazz standards: Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Club Stomp,” Donald Heywood’s “I'm Coming Virginia,” Bix Beiderbecke’s “In the Dark,” Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two”; Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartet no. 9.

August 25, at 7 p.m.: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet; John Charles Thomas and Alison Marseglia, trumpets; Barbara Hill, horn; Brian Diehl, trombone; Jarrod Briley, tuba. They will perform Reena Esmail's “Tuttarana“ from Three Transformations for Brass Quintet, Eric Ewazen's Colchester Fantasy, Gwyneth Walker's Raise the roof! Marcus Grant's Resounding Echoes, Victor Ewald's Quintet No. 3, as well as “So What,“ by Miles Davis, “Black Orpheus,“ by Antonio Carlos Jobim, and “Beyond the Sea,“ adapted by Bobby Darin.

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October 3, at 7 p.m.: World-renowned double bassist and Plainfield resident Avery Sharpe will return with his double quartet (string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion, African drums) to reprise his composition “I Am My Neighbor‘s Keeper.”