Peninsula College and the PC Foundation have set artists and dates for their seventh season of the Maier Hall Concert Series.

Returning to a four-concert format this year, the concert series features a couple of old favorites from the series as well as some brand new artists. Three instrumental trios and one vocal quartet are on tap this season. Performers include natives and/or former residents of St. Petersburg (Russia), Brazil, Denmark, Iceland and several U.S. cities.

Concerts take place at Maier Concert Hall, located on the first floor of Maier Hall (E Building) on the Port Angeles Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. Tickets are available from the Peninsula College bookstore at bookaneer.pencol.edu/Merchandise.aspx or at the door. General admission is $15, student admission (with ID) is $5, and season tickets are $50.

For more information about the series, visit pencol.edu/cultural-events/concert-series. For more information, contact Dr. David P. Jones at 360-417-6405 or djones@pencol.edu.

Series lineup

Leading off the series on Thursday, Dec. 6, is Frequency, a Seattle-based string trio that presents “innovative, invigorating and intriguing chamber music concerts.” Joining together distinguished artists from two acclaimed chamber groups — the Corigliano Quartet and Decoda — Frequency is a modular chamber music group, breaking into different parts to present solos, duos and trios, while also expanding with renowned guest artists to perform in a variety of formations. Frequency members have performed as soloists and chamber musicians worldwide, in leading concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Suntory Hall and Disney Hall.

Returning to the Maier Hall Concert Series on Tuesday, Feb. 5 are two founding members of Ensemble Electra: Vicki Boeckman (recorders) and Jillon Stoppels Dupree (harpsichord). In this iteration of the award-winning early music group, they are bringing along Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano for an evening of music from Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina. Boeckman and Galhano have taught and performed together numerous times at workshops across the country. These performers have been associated with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, York (England) Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra and many other ensembles and festivals across the world. The music for this concert will include compositions by Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, Astor Piazzolla and “Pixinguinha.”

Jennifer Nelson last appeared in 2013 on the Maier Hall Concert Series as the clarinetist of Trio Seraphim Trio. Now she brings with her two colleagues of the PNW Trio: Wendy Wilhelmi (flute) and Francine Peterson (bassoon) who will perform on the Maier Hall Concert Series on Tuesday, April 23. The three women who comprise the trio have been friends and colleagues for decades, and are all busy freelance musicians in Seattle. Individually they have performed with most of the major orchestras and professional theaters in the Pacific Northwest region as well as playing on hundreds of recordings for motion pictures, television, and video games. At their performance they will also premiere “Triology” by Peninsula College faculty composer David P. Jones.

The St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble, founded in 2003 as an independent group, debut in the Maier Hall Concert Series on Friday, May 3. These four men, all natives of Russia and all associated with some of the finest choral ensembles in that country, bring “an authentic experience of Russian classical, folk and liturgical repertoire that is beyond description,” series organizers say. The ensemble’s repertoire encompasses various musical periods and styles, from ancient Russian chants to chorales of Western and East European masters to modern contemporary.