The Spanish string quartet Cuarteto Quiroga. (脥帽igo Ib谩帽ez/Quincena Musical)

The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall offers a musical world tour March 13-16, giving listeners the choice of traditional Irish music, traditional and classical Chinese music, the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra with an international program and a renowned Spanish string quartet.

顿补苍煤, an Irish sextet hailed for “astonishing versatility and exuberance” (Geoff Wallis, Musical Traditions), performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13. Tickets cost $30 for the general public and $22 for seniors (65-plus) and students, and are available at .

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The Silk Trio, a group of innovative string players specializing in the music of China, plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14. Tickets cost $10, also available at .

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Scott Ordway leads the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a program including a Mozart concerto for two pianos, with Frank Glazer and James Parakilas of the 乐播传媒 faculty as soloists, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15. The show is free but tickets are required, available through .

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Finally, the Olin Arts Alive Quartet Series presents the celebrated Spanish ensemble Cuarteto Quiroga with a program of Mozart, Bartok and Schoenberg at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 16. Tickets cost $12, available at .

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The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is located at 75 Russell St. A limited number of free tickets for students and seniors (65-plus) are available for 顿补苍煤 (after March 10), Silk Trio and Cuarteto Quiroga at .

For more information, please contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The Forge: Irish flutist Nicole Rabata, bodhranist Anna Colliton, fiddler Cara Frankowicz and singer-harpist Maeve Gilchrist.

The first weekend of March will be a rich one at 乐播传媒 College for music lovers, as an avant-garde duo, an up-and-coming Irish-style band and a program of Beethoven sonatas are all bound for the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.

Combining flute with electronic and computer-based music, DuoInteraktiv performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1.

Well-known to Maine audiences, violinist Dean Stein and pianist Chiharu Naruse perform the second of three concerts surveying Beethoven’s sonatas for those instruments at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 3. The program consists of Sonata No. 5 in F major (Op. 24, “Spring”); No. 10 in G major (Op. 96) and No. 6 in A major (Op. 30, No. 1). Read more about Stein and Naruse.

Also on March 3, at 7:30 p.m., is a performance by The Forge, a quartet based in the Northeast that “Celtic Sojourn” radio host Brian O’Donovan called “a bright new name in the American Irish music scene.”

The concert hall is located at 75 Russell St.

DuoInteraktiv: Reiner Kr盲mer and Patricia Surman.

Admission to DuoInteraktiv is free, but tickets are required. Admission to Stein and Naruse is $10. Tickets to The Forge, part of 乐播传媒’ Olin Arts Alive series, are $12. For the latter two concerts, tickets are available at .

Limited numbers of free tickets are available to seniors and students by reservation for the Beethoven and Forge programs; please contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.

DuoInteraktiv: Based at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, DuoInteraktiv creates and performs music that fuses the worlds of traditional acoustic instruments, electroacoustic principles and computer science into a single entity. This collaboration between computer operator and music theorist Reiner Kr盲mer and flutist Patricia Surman was formed with the goal of bringing the little-performed works for flute and computer to an audience at large.

DuoInteraktiv received the 2011-12 Yamaha / College Music Society In-Residence Fellowship.

The Forge: The Forge is composed of bodhranist Anna Colliton; fiddlist Cara Frankowicz; harpist and vocalist Maeve Gilchrist; and flutist Nicole Rabata. They have appeared together throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As individual artists, they have performed with renowned performers such as the Chieftains, the Three Irish Tenors and Capercaille.

鈥淎 new band shows up on the scene and immediately seems destined to make an impact,” said WGBH-FM personality O’Donovan. “Paying homage to their traditional roots while creating something new.鈥�

The 2005 乐播传媒 College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series winds up on Aug. 11 with “Ireland Reclaimed,” a program of Irish and Irish-influenced music by Brendan Taaffe, with Matt and Shannon Heaton. The concert starts at 6 p.m. in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews at 乐播传媒. The rain site is the adjacent Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The concert is open to the public at no charge. Bring the family, blankets or lawn chairs and a picnic supper. For more information, please call 207-786-6400.

, son of an Irish father and an American mother, grew up surrounded by traditional Celtic music. Enriched by travels in Ireland as a young man, he has evolved into a musician of great depth, known for his lyrical fiddling and singing as well as fluency on banjo, guitar and whistle. The Heatons, active in Boston’s flourishing Irish music scene, sing and play a variety of instruments.

For additional information, call the Olin Arts Center at 207-786-6135.