Guest cellist Lynn Harrell, a two-time Grammy winner for Best Chamber Music Performance, will join several other acclaimed guest artists for the String Chamber Music Extravaganza at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 4.

Other performers will be Stephen Boe and Limor Toren-Immerman on violin, Paul Coletti and Michael Chang on viola and Thomas Loewenheim on cello.

An accomplished recording artist, Harrell’s discography of more than 30 recordings includes the complete Bach Cello Suites (London/Decca), and two Grammy wins with Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy – in 1981 for the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio and in 1987 for the complete Beethoven Piano Trios (both Angel/EMI).

Boe is a Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition prize winner and former Artist in Residence for the National Endowment for the Arts. Coletti has been described by Fanfare magazine as “the best violist currently on the musical scene today.”

Chang is a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music and a faculty member at California State University, Fullerton. Fresno State music professors violinist Limor Toren-Immerman and cellist Thomas Loewenheim are award winning international performing artists in their own right.

The program will include "String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18" by Johannes Brahms and "String Sextet in D minor, Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 for seniors, $15 for students.

Harrell will also present a cello master class at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 5, in the Concert Hall. This class is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Loewenheim at 278.7547 or tloewenheim@csufresno.edu.