Mirel Wagner. Photograph by Aki Roukala.

NOTE: ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ learned the morning of Sept. 12, the day of her scheduled concert in the Keigwin Amphitheater, that Wagner has canceled the remainder of her North American tour. We regret any inconvenience.

A folk-blues singer who has stunned critics with her stark lyrics and bare-bones delivery performs at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Keigwin Amphitheater at Lake Andrews, adjacent to the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Mirel Wagner launches the college’s Olin Arts Alive music series, emphasizing renowned and emerging musicians on the international stage, with this free concert. The rain site is the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Born in Ethiopia, raised in Finland, Wagner “takes a minimalist approach to her music to create consistently captivating, haunting tracks,” wrote a reviewer for . “Wagner does not need complicated background melodies to make beautiful music; her strong, slightly husky voice and an acoustic guitar are enough.

“The simplicity in the sound allows [her] writing ability to stand out, as she weaves dark, heart-wrenching stories into each song. . . . Wagner questions relationships, family, religion and the value of living.”

Wagner began writing songs in her teens. An American music journalist living in Finland heard her at an open mic and helped open doors that led to the recording of her first album over the course of two days. This self-titled debut was released in Finland in spring 2011, and a year later in the U.S. (Friendly Fire).

If Wagner’s themes are bleak, her undramatic delivery renders them convincing. “I think it’s a bit lazy to say that I make sad music,” Wagner told the German edition of Rolling Stone magazine. “Of course you might say the lyrics are bizarre or dark. But for me, the songs are first and foremost filled with desire. And there’s this hope in them that love overcomes everything.

“What I find sad is the soulless music that is on the radio most of the time, music that is simply product. If there is no life in it . . . is this not much sadder than a melancholic song?”

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Red Baraat

Opening with Ethiopian-born Finnish singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner and concluding with the college’s own Jazz Band, the autumn 2012 concert season at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College represents the best of music from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and the world.

The season includes the debut of the Olin Arts Alive concert series featuring internationally renowned and emerging performers.

Classical music highlights include visits by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the contemporary music ensemble Momenta Quartet, performing a piece by a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ composer. In addition, pianist Frank Glazer, an artist in residence at the college since 1980, will offer a season-long series comprising music from his most cherished ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ programs.

In a joint presentation with L/A Arts — one of several undertaken by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this academic year — rhythm and blues singer Francine Reed returns to Olin a year after her smash appearance here. Other familiar faces include the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra and College Choir. And new to the college is Red Baraat, a most exciting ensemble combining the sounds of South Asia and the New World.

With exceptions as noted, most concerts are open to the public free of charge and take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. To buy tickets, please visit . For more information or to arrange tickets for the free concerts, please contact olinarts@bates.edu or 207-786-6135.

Here’s the season schedule:

Mirel Wagner (7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12): Born in Ethiopia, raised in Finland, this folk and blues singer is known for her minimalist style and emotive depth. Note: This Olin Arts Alive series concert takes place at Keigwin Amphitheater at Lake Andrews, next to the Olin Arts Center. Rain site: Olin Concert Hall. Learn more.

Pianist Frank Glazer in 2006. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.

Frank Glazer Retrospective, Program I (7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14): The renowned pianist begins a season of music from his most cherished ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ programs. Tonight: Handel, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven (Pathétique). Admission: $10 per concert or all eight programs at $65 per seat, at . Proceeds benefit the Frank & Ruth Glazer Scholarship Fund. A limited number of free tickets are available for seniors and students; contact olinarts@bates.eduor 207-786-6163.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Downtown (5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28): The college’s informal series of free downtown concerts resumes with an artist TBA. Note: The venue is 22 Park St., Lewiston.

An Evening of Chamber Music (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29): Four friends — ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ pianist Jim Parakilas, violinist Mary Hunter, cellist Steve Witkin and violist Heather Cook — perform Mozart, Fauré and Dvořák, including the beloved “Dumky” piano trio. Free, but tickets required; contact olinarts@bates.edu.

Red Baraat (7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30): Driven by bandleader Sunny Jain’s dhol, a North Indian drum, this uproarious Brooklyn band blends Brit-Indi Bhangra with funky New World brass. Admission $15/ $10, available at . Free tickets are available for the first 100 seniors or students. To reserve, please email olinarts@bates.edu. .

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6): One of America’s most compelling pianists, Jeremy Denk is among the six CMS players in an Olin Arts Alive performance. Featured is music by Bruch, Brahms and Dohnányi. Admission $15/ $10, available at . Free tickets are available for the first 100 seniors or students. To reserve, please email olinarts@bates.edu. .

Francine Reed

Frank Glazer Retrospective, Program II (7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12): See Program I, above, for artist and admission details. Tonight: Schoenberg’s Six Short Pieces, along with music by Schubert, Brahms and Chopin.

Francine Reed (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13): Olin Arts Alive and L/A Arts present an evening with this blues, gospel and jazz singer. A hit at Olin a year ago, the openhearted, full-throated Reed is the widely recognized voice in Lyle Lovett’s Large Band, but has a powerhouse career in her own right. Admission: $15 / $10, increasing to $20 /$10 on the day of the show. Available at . Learn more.

Alexandre Tharaud (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21). Olin Arts Alive presents the up-and-coming French pianist. “Tharaud is dazzlingly nimble-fingered and often admirably sensitive, without romanticizing,” wrote the BBC. A program of Scarlatti, Ravel, Chopin and Liszt. Admission $12, available at ; free tickets are available for the first 100 seniors and students. Email olinarts@bates.edu to reserve. .

Rollin’ to Olin(12:30 p.m. on three Thursdays: Nov. 1, 8 and 15). The public is invited to this free arts-literacy program for local schoolchildren. A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art presentation takes place at 12:30 p.m., followed by a mini-concert from 1 to 1:30.

Europa Galante

Europa Galante (7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2): Olin Arts Alive presents a Baroque music ensemble from Italy, founded and still directed by violinist Fabio Biondi. The program “Apotheosis and Folia” includes music by Vivaldi, Couperin, Mascitti, Corelli and C.P.E. Bach. Admission $12, available at . Free tickets are available to the first 100 seniors and students; reserve by emailing olinarts@bates.edu. .

Frank Glazer Retrospective, Program III (7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9): See Program I, above, for artist and admission information. Tonight: Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, along with music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Orchestra (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10): Hiroya Miura directs the ensemble in a program including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. Free, but tickets required.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Choir (8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1): John Corrie directs the choir in a program TBA. Free, but tickets required.

Frank Glazer Retrospective, Program IV (3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2): See Program I, above, for artist and admission information. Tonight: music by Franck, Weber, Gershwin, Barber, Copland and Brahms.

Momenta Quartet

Momenta Quartet (7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4): Olin Arts Alive and the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art present this quartet whose repertoire ranges widely from the classics to contemporary — such as tonight’s premiere by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ composer Hiroya Miura, commissioned for the museum’s exhibition Starstruck. Also on the program: music by Debussy, Kee Yong Chong and Jason Kao Hwang. Admission $12, available at . Free tickets are available to the first 100 seniors and students; reserve by emailing olinarts@bates.edu. .

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Jazz Band (7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5) Tom Snow leads the band in arrangements for large and small ensembles, and genres from big band to bossa nova to funk. Free, but tickets required.

Another string of can’t-miss musical performances at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, as Germany’s Auryn Quartet presents the first in a multiyear series of concerts constituting the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle.

The second concert in that ambitious series takes place at 8 p.m. the next day. Both performances take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Two concerts in very different genres are scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 7. At 8 p.m., also in the Olin concert hall, the teenaged musicians of the Neo Jazz Collective perform. Following at 9 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St., is a show with headliners and the .

Finally, at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Olin auditorium, musicians including ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ pianist James Parakilas offer a program of trios by Schubert and Ravel.

Part of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series, admission to each of the Auryn Quartet performances is $10 general admission and $4 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at .

The other Olin concerts are open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. For reservations and more information, please call 207-786-6135, visit the or the Olin site, or e-mail olinarts@batesedu.

For ticket information about the Barefoot Truth show, call 207-795-7496.

Dance and song come together in two upcoming performances at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

The remarkable dancer-choreographer-singer Janis Brenner offers a solo performance in Olin at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17. explores the passion, humor, depth and emotional power of our relationships to others, to ourselves and to the world around us. The New York Times described Brenner’s dances as filled with “free-wheeling motion and rooted emotional intensity.”

Her ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ performance includes a vocal suite by Meredith Monk and “Solo For Janis” by Richard Siegal. This performance is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required.

The following week, the 2008-09 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series continues with a performance by the tango troupe called Pablo Aslan’s Avantango at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

New York-based Avantango, led by bassist Aslan, comprises six musicians and four dancers, plus a guest singer, all Argentine natives. Mixing the legendary music of Astor Piazzolla with contemporary themes and rhythms, reclaims the tango as a living tradition, while incorporating jazz improvisation and turning historic cliches upside down.

A New York Daily News critic wrote that Avantango “uncovered a colorful, bristling range of musical possibilities . . . harnessing jazz improvisation to take off in some suggestive, fascinating musical directions.” Avantango members have toured with such artists as Shakira, Yo Yo Ma and Julio Iglesias, and appeared in the National Geographic television special “Tango!” narrated by Robert Duvall.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Concert Series performances take place at 8 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $10 general admission and $4 for students and seniors, and are available at . For reservations and more information, please call 207-786-6135, visit the or olinarts@bates.edu.

Featuring a lively blend of jazz, Latin and classical music, the college’s flagship series of musical events resumes during the winter with the renowned guitarists known as the Assad Brothers (Jan. 31) and finally, Germany’s Auryn Quartet in a two-evening stand that begins the group’s multi-year presentation of the complete Beethoven string quartets at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (Feb. 5-6).

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Up next in the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series are acclaimed opera singers Kelly Kaduce, soprano, and Lee Gregory, baritone, performing at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The couple are award-winning rising stars in opera and are in demand on concert and recital stages throughout the United States. Their ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ program includes works by Granados, Debussy and Grieg, as well as operatic arias and duets.

Admission is $10 for adults and $3 for students. For reservations and more information, please call 207-786-6135 or visit the .

Kaduce is celebrated for her acting ability as well as her elegant, seemingly effortless singing. She has sung leading roles nationwide and in Europe, and also performs in recital and orchestral concerts.

For her creation of the title role in David Carlson’s “Anna Karenina,” which premiered in 2006, Opera News proclaimed Kaduce “an exceptional actress whose performance was as finely modulated dramatically as it was musically. . . . her dark, focused sound was lusty and lyrical one moment, tender and floating the next.” Also last year, Kaduce won rave reviews for her Boston Lyric Opera debut, in the title role of Massenet’s “Thaïs.”

Lee Gregory is a gifted actor and singer with a beautiful, warm and ringing voice. Boasting a wide and varied repertoire, he is known for his ability to inhabit his characters. Opera News praised his Mercutio in Nashville Opera’s “Roméo et Juliette” as “nearly ideal.”

Gregory’s recent performing highlights include his New York City Opera debut as Moralès in “Carmen” and his multiple roles in the Boston Midsummer Opera’s production “The Marriages of Mozart.” A regular performer with American Opera projects, Gregory has collaborated with new playwrights and composers. He added to his musical theater credits with a gala concert with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra celebrating Richard Rodgers’ centenary.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series concludes on March 1 with the popular American roots band The Holmes Brothers.

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The 2006-07 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series resumes at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, with a program of jazz by the Marcus Roberts Trio. The series concludes at 8 p.m. Friday, March 9, with an all-Schubert program performed by fortepianist Steven Lubin and baritone Thomas Meglioranza.

Both concerts take place in the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission for the Roberts concert is $15 and for the Schubert program, $5. For more information, For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

Marcus Roberts is a pianist and composer widely celebrated for giving new and vital interpretations to historical jazz styles. A player who attained prominence as a member of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ band, Roberts has dedicated himself to the seminal music of such greats as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton. He has also recorded concert music by Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Scott Joplin.

Roberts was the first jazz player to have his first three recordings reach No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart. He has been honored with awards from the National Association of Jazz Educators and the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Blind since age 5, he received the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement in 1998.

Completing the are drummer Jason Marsalis, a member of the highly musical Marsalis family, and bassist Roland Guerin, a versatile musician who is one of the few jazz bassists using the “slap” technique.

Fortepianist Steven Lubin and baritone Thomas Meglioranza present an all-Schubert concert at 8 p.m. Friday, March 9. The program includes the “Schwanengesang” song cycle, the A-major Piano Sonata and some of Schubert’s best-loved lieder. Admission is $5.

Praised for “vocal distinction and expressive warmth” (The Boston Globe), is one of the country’s most sought-after young singers. He is known for compelling artistry and a remarkably versatile voice equally at home with Monteverdi, Schubert, Babbitt or Gershwin.

In March 2006, he was featured in a New York performance titled Twin Spirits: The Words and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann, starring rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. Meglioranza starred in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ operatic adaptation of “Angels in America” with Opera Boston, and other recent dates include debuts with the MET Chamber Ensemble with James Levine.

has appeared as soloist in many of the world’s great concert halls and in major international festivals. As a fortepianist, Lubin has been a dominating figure for more than two decades. In New York, starting in the late 1970s, he pioneered a series of fortepiano recitals and concerto performances of Mozart in period style, as soloist-conductor.

Among his 20 CDs, his recordings of Mozart concertos for Arabesque introduced many listeners to period-style performance of this repertoire. He was chosen by Decca to record the five piano concertos of Beethoven with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, a recording cited as definitive.

The 2006-07 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series resumes at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, as pianist Gayle Martin Henry and oboist Gerard Reuter perform transcriptions from opera in the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is $8. For more information, For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

The series continues on March 3 with a trio led by jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and concludes on March 9 with Steven Lubin, fortepianist, and Thomas Meglioranza, baritone.

In 1978, Henry was the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, in Moscow, and was only the third American woman ever to reach the finals. A native Texan, she first performed with the Houston Symphony at age 12, and has given orchestral and recital concerts at major venues all over North and South America. To critical acclaim, she performed works by J.S. Bach in the award-winning 1998 film “Angel Passing,” starring Hume Cronyn as a once-famous pianist stricken with Alzheimer’s disease.

Henry was one of the last students of Rosina Lhevinne at The Juilliard School. At 19, she won the Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition and performed with the Juilliard Orchestra under Alfred Wallenstein. Upon graduation, she was awarded the prestigious Josef Lhevinne Prize.

A faculty member at New York University, Reuter has enjoyed a distinguished international career as a chamber musician and soloist. He is a founding member of An Die Musik and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, in New York he has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony, the Soviet Emigré Orchestra and the Philharmonia Virtuoso, and in Washington, D.C., with the National Chamber Orchestra.

Widely celebrated for giving new and vital interpretations to historical jazz styles, The Marcus Roberts Trio plays at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3. Admission is $15.

Roberts, a pianist and composer who attained prominence as a member of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ band, has dedicated himself to the seminal music of such greats as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton. He has also recorded concert music by Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Scott Joplin. Roberts was the first jazz player to have his first three recordings reach No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart.

Marcus has been honored with awards from the National Association of Jazz Educators and the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Blind since age 5, he received the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement in 1998.

Completing the trio are drummer Jason Marsalis, a member of the highly musical Marsalis family, and bassist Roland Guerin, a versatile musician who is one of the few jazz bassists using the “slap” technique.

Fortepianist Steven Lubin and baritone Thomas Meglioranza present an all-Schubert concert at 8 p.m. Friday, March 9. The program includes the “Schwanengesang” song cycle, the A-major Piano Sonata and some of Schubert’s best-loved lieder. Admission is $5.

Praised for “vocal distinction and expressive warmth” (The Boston Globe), Thomas Meglioranza is one of the country’s most sought-after young singers. He is known for compelling artistry and a remarkably versatile voice equally at home with Monteverdi, Schubert, Babbitt or Gershwin.

In March 2006, he was featured in a New York performance titled “Twin Spirits: The Words and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann,” starring rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. Meglioranza starred in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ operatic adaptation of “Angels in America” with Opera Boston, and other recent dates include debuts with the MET Chamber Ensemble with James Levine.

Lubin has appeared as soloist in many of the world’s great concert halls and in major international festivals. As a fortepianist, Lubin has been a dominating figure for more than two decades. In New York, starting in the late 1970s, he pioneered a series of fortepiano recitals and concerto performances of Mozart in period style, as soloist-conductor.

Among his 20 CDs, his recordings of Mozart concertos for Arabesque introduced many listeners to period-style performance of this repertoire. He was chosen by Decca to record the five piano concertos of Beethoven with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, a recording cited as definitive.

A jazz trombonist playing with a Mongolian band, famed jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and two distinctive classical concerts are featured in the 2006-07 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series.

The series starts with trombonist Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band on Nov. 2. Pianist Gayle Martin Henry and oboist Gerard Reuter pick up the series on Jan. 13. The Marcus Roberts Trio performs on March 3, and the duo of Steven Lubin, pianist, and baritone Thomas Meglioranza concludes the series on March 9.

Concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., and are open to the public. Admission fees vary by concert. For more information, please visit the For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band, who perform at Carnegie Hall days after their ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ concert, play a unique mixture of American blues and jazz merged with traditional Mongolian songs. Tickets for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ concert are $8 for adults and $2 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Rudd, whose local reputation was enhanced some years back by a stint on the University of Maine at Augusta music faculty, is known for his work in free jazz and his mastery of the trombone’s considerable expressive powers. Born in 1935, he had embraced free jazz by the early 1960s and went on to work with players now ranked among the finest — Archie Shepp and Charlie Haden, among others.

After a lull in the 1970s and ’80s, his career again picked up steam in the 1990s, fueled in part by collaborations with musicians from Mali and, of course, Mongolia. He was named the Jazz Journalists Association’s “Trombonist of the Year” in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and New York Times critic John Wilson called him “a trombonist of such sweeping power and majesty that he transcends all styles.”

The Buryat Band is led by Badma Kanda, a vocalist of supreme range and expressive beauty, accompanied by a “throat singer” — referring to a technique enabling one singer to produce more than one note at a time — and four instrumentalists who play everything from horse-head basses and fiddles to lute, dulcimer and flute.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series resumes on Jan. 13 with Gayle Martin Henry and Gerard Reuter, performing a memorable program of transcriptions from opera. Admission is $8 for adults, $2 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Henry claimed international notice as the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and only the third American woman ever to reach the finals. A native Texan, she first performed with the Houston Symphony at age 12, and has given orchestral and recital concerts at major venues all over North and South America. To critical acclaim, she performed works by J.S. Bach in the award-winning 1998 film Angel Passing, starring Hume Cronyn as a once-famous pianist stricken with Alzheimer’s disease.

A faculty member at New York University, Reuter has enjoyed a distinguished international career as a chamber musician and soloist. He is a founding member of An Die Musik and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, in New York he has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony, the Soviet Emigré Orchestra and the Philharmonia Virtuoso, and in Washington, D.C., with the National Chamber Orchestra. He has performed in recitals in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Boston as well as in major cities in Europe and Asia.

Widely celebrated for giving new and vital interpretations to historical jazz styles, the Marcus Roberts Trio comes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on March 3. Admission is $15 for adults, $5 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Roberts, a pianist and composer who attained prominence as a member of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ band, has dedicated himself to the seminal music of such greats as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton. He has also recorded concert music by Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Scott Joplin. Roberts was the first jazz player to have his first three recordings reach No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart.

Marcus has been honored with awards from the National Association of Jazz Educators and the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition, and with the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement in 1998. He has been blind since age 5.

Completing the trio are drummer Jason Marsalis, a member of the highly musical Marsalis family, and bassist Roland Guerin, a versatile musician who is one of the few jazz bassists using the “slap” technique.

Fortepianist Steven Lubin and baritone Thomas Meglioranza present an all-Schubert concert on March 9. The program includes the “Schwanengesang” song cycle, the A-major Piano Sonata and some of Schubert’s best-loved lieder. Admission is $5 for adults and free for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Praised for “vocal distinction and expressive warmth” (The Boston Globe), Thomas Meglioranza is one of the country’s most sought-after young singers. He is known for compelling artistry and a remarkably versatile voice equally at home with Monteverdi, Schubert, Babbitt or Gershwin.

In March 2006, he was featured in a New York performance titled “Twin Spirits: The Words and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann,” starring Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. He starred in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ operatic adapation of “Angels in America” with Opera Boston, and other recent dates include debuts with the MET Chamber Ensemble with James Levine.

Lubin has appeared as soloist in many of the world’s great concert halls and in major international festivals. He has recorded 20 CDs, mostly for major labels, and has received critical approbation worldwide for his artistry, originality and technical excellence. As a fortepianist, Lubin has been a dominating figure for two decades. In New York, starting in the late 1970s, he pioneered a series of fortepiano recitals and performances of Mozart concertos in period style, as soloist-conductor.

His recordings of Mozart concertos for Arabesque introduced many listeners to period-style performance of this repertoire. He was chosen by Decca to record the five piano concertos of Beethoven with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, a recording cited as definitive.

The 2006-07 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concert Series resumes at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, with a memorable program of transcriptions from opera performed by pianist Gayle Martin Henry and oboist Gerard Reuter.

Admission is $8 for adults, $2 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Later events in the series feature jazz with the Marcus Roberts Trio on March 3, and the duo of Steven Lubin, pianist, and baritone Thomas Meglioranza concluding the series on March 9.

All concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission fees vary by concert. For more information, please visit the series web page. For reservations, please call 207-786-6135.

Henry claimed international notice as the sole American laureate of the sixth International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and only the third American woman ever to reach the finals. A native Texan, she first performed with the Houston Symphony at age 12, and has given orchestral and recital concerts at major venues all over North and South America. To critical acclaim, she performed works by J.S. Bach in the award-winning 1998 film Angel Passing, starring Hume Cronyn as a once-famous pianist stricken with Alzheimer’s disease.

A faculty member at New York University, Reuter has enjoyed a distinguished international career as a chamber musician and soloist. He is a founding member of and the . As a soloist, in New York he has appeared with the Jupiter Symphony, the Soviet Emigré Orchestra and the Philharmonia Virtuoso, and in Washington, D.C., with the National Chamber Orchestra. He has performed in recitals in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Boston as well as in major cities in Europe and Asia.

Widely celebrated for giving new and vital interpretations to historical jazz styles, comes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on March 3. Admission is $15 for adults, $5 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Roberts, a pianist and composer who attained prominence as a member of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ band, has dedicated himself to the seminal music of such greats as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton. He has also recorded concert music by Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Scott Joplin. Roberts was the first jazz player to have his first three recordings reach No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart.

Marcus has been honored with awards from the National Association of Jazz Educators and the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition, and with the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement in 1998. He has been blind since age 5.

Completing the trio are drummer Jason Marsalis, a member of the highly musical Marsalis family, and bassist Roland Guerin, a versatile musician who is one of the few jazz bassists using the “slap” technique.

Fortepianist and baritone present an all-Schubert concert on March 9. The program includes the “Schwanengesang” song cycle, the A-major Piano Sonata and some of Schubert’s best-loved lieder. Admission is $5 for adults and free for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students with ID.

Praised by the Boston Globe for “vocal distinction and expressive warmth,” Thomas Meglioranza is one of the country’s most sought-after young singers. He is known for compelling artistry and a remarkably versatile voice equally at home with Monteverdi, Schubert, Babbitt or Gershwin.

In March 2006, he was featured in a New York performance titled “Twin Spirits: The Words and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann,” starring Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. He starred in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’ operatic adapation of “Angels in America” with Opera Boston, and other recent dates include debuts with the MET Chamber Ensemble with James Levine.

Lubin has appeared as soloist in many of the world’s great concert halls and in major international festivals. He has recorded 20 CDs, mostly for major labels, and has received critical approbation worldwide for his artistry, originality and technical excellence. As a fortepianist, Lubin has been a dominating figure for two decades. In New York, starting in the late 1970s, he pioneered a series of fortepiano recitals and performances of Mozart concertos in period style, as soloist-conductor.

His recordings of Mozart concertos for Arabesque introduced many listeners to period-style performance of this repertoire. He was chosen by Decca to record the five piano concertos of Beethoven with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, a recording cited as definitive.