Classical this fall: chamber and recital series
Andover Chamber Music Series
978-470-8874. Sun., 3 p.m. Julia Scolnik, director and flutist. 
Oct. 4, First Calvary Church, Route 125 and Mass. Ave., North Andover. Michael Barret conducts Schoenberg's arrangement of Debussy's "L'apres-midi d'un faune," Copland's "Appalachian Spring"; Poulenc's Sextet for piano and winds with Judith Gordon, piano; $16, students and seniors $12. Nov. 1, Old Town Hall, Andover. Family concert: Susan Lenoe narrates Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf"; $10, children $7, families $30; Halloween costumes welcome.
Art of Music Chamber Players
First and Second Church, 66 Marlborough St., Boston. * 781-837-2705. Sun., 2 p.m. $15, seniors $12, students $8. Timothy Roberts, director and cellist. Sept. 13, string quartets by Mozart, Mendelssohn; Dvorak's String Quintet with Gregory Koeller, bass. Oct. 18, works by Barber, Debussy-Webster, Weber, Brahms. Nov. 22, works by Ravel, Schumann, Dohnanyi.
Benefit Concert: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston. Nov. 1, 2 p.m. Works by Debussy, Saint-Saens, Chausson; $20.
Blodgett Chamber Music Series
Paine Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge. * 617-496-2222. Fri., 8 p.m. Free, passes available at Sanders Theatre box office two weeks before concert. Concerts by Mendelssohn String Quartet, Blodgett artists-in-residence. Oct. 30, Haydn's Quartet in C, op. 74, No. 1; premiere of Davidovsky's String Quartet; Schubert's Quartet in D Minor, "Death and the Maiden."
Boston Artists Ensemble
617-964-6553. $20, students and seniors $17. Fri., 8 p.m., Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem; Sun., 2:30 p.m., Trinity Church, Homer and Centre streets, Newton Centre. Season features Beethoven piano trios. Oct. 23, 25, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet with Thomas Martin; Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 131. Nov. 20, 22, piano trios by Beethoven, Scott Wheeler, Dvorak with Sharan Leventhal, violin; Beth Levin, piano; Jonathan Miller, cello.
Special Event: First and Second Church, 66 Marlborough St., Boston. * Oct. 11, 2:30 p.m. $20. Schubert's Trio in B-flat; Beethoven's Trio in D, "Ghost"; Arensky's Trio No. 2 in D Minor.
Boston Chamber Music Society
617-349-0086. 7:30 p.m. $16-$40. Fri., Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, includes discussion of first piece on program; Sun., Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge. Ronald Thomas, director. Season feature six Mozart string quintets. Oct. 2, 4, premiere of Henri Lazarof's "Chronicles for String Trio"; Mozart's Quintet in C Minor, K. 406; Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor. Nov. 13, 15, Mozart's Quintet in B-flat, K. 174; Weber's Clarinet Quintet; Brahms's Piano Quartet in A.
Boston Classical Guitar Society
Marshall Room, Boston University School for the Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 781-224-4203. Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. Free, donations welcome. Peter Clemente and John Muratore, guitar. Solos and duos by Scarlatti, Frederic Hand, Granados, Leisner, others.
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston. * 617-536-2412. Sun., 3 p.m. $15-$27. Oct. 25, Vivaldi's Concerto for flute, violin, oboe, bassoon, cello; Harbison's Woodwind Quintet; Dvorak's String Quartet in G.
Cantata Singers Chamber Series
Longy School, 1 Follen St., Cambridge. * 617-267-6502. Sun., 3 p.m. $15, discount for students and seniors. Nov. 22, "Spain through German Eyes," works by Schumann, Wolf, Brahms.
Chamber Music at Houghton Library
Harvard University, Cambridge. 617-495-2449. 8 p.m. $15, students $8. Oct. 14, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola; Reiko Uchida, piano. Works by Kreisler, Shostakovich, Bach, Brahms. Dec. 2, Mendelssohn String Quartet. Works by Schubert, Ravel, Shostakovich.
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston. * 781-259-9147. Sept. 25, 8 p.m. $18-$26, students and seniors $16-$24. Lynn Chang, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Bion Tsang, cello; Hung-Kuan Chen, piano. Sitkovetsky's transcription of Bach's "Goldberg Variations"; Smetana's Piano Trio.
Hospitality Program Benefit
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston. 617-482-4338. Sept. 16, 8 p.m. $25, $50; students and seniors $10. Judith Gordon, piano, and friends. Schumann's "Dichterliebe" with William Hite, tenor; Mozart's Quintet for piano and winds, K. 452, with members of Boston Symphony Orchestra; piano works by Mozart, Schumann.
Kalliroscope Gallery
264 Main St., Groton. 978-486-0540. Sat., 8 p.m. $30. Oct. 3, Boston Chamber Music Society. Nov. 21, Gramercy Trio.
Videmus
Cohen Auditorium, Tufts University, Medford. 617-627-2253. Sept. 19, 8 p.m. Free. Louise Toppin, director. Works by Florence Price, William Grant Still, T.J. Anderson, Donal Fox. Performers include Toppin and Ruth Hamilton, soprano; Robert Honeysucker, baritone; Fox and John McDonald, piano.
