Bainbridge Performing Arts will present Chamber Music in The Playhouse lobby, Sunday, May 13 at 4 p.m. The 2000-2001 BPA Chamber Music season continues with a program devoted to the overlapping and interplay of late German Romanticism with the rise of French Modernism in the last quarter of the 19th century.

The concert begins with the first of the two beautiful sonatas for clarinet and piano composed by Johannes Brahms in 1895. This is one of the four masterpieces inspired by the composer’s late friendship with the clarinetist Mühlfeld, whom he met in 1891. It will be performed by Robert Wingert, clarinet, and Irene Bowling, piano.

There will be a pause in the central part of the program to honor Mother’s Day as one of the most beloved works of the early modern repertoire, Debussy’s Clair de lune, performed by Adam Pelandini, a senior at Bainbridge Island High School. is performed.

The afternoon performance concludes with one of the major works of the French chamber-music repertoire: Gabriel Fauré’s Quartet for Strings and Piano, Opus 15 of 1879. This work precedes by more than a decade the emergence of Debussy and Ravel, the two most famous standard-bearers of early French modernism. It will be performed by Gary Anderson, violin; Leonard Hembd, viola; Priscilla Jones, violoncello; and James Quitslund, piano.

Tickets, which are $10 for students, seniors and adults, are available at The Playhouse, 200 Madison Ave. N. They may also be charged by phone at (206) 842-8569. BPA Box Office hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.