CANTON -- After more than 30 years of annual residency and performances, the four members of Alexander String Quartet, all honorary members of the Class of 2000, will return for their annual campus performances and residency.

As longtime guests of the St. Lawrence community, their visit this fall will include two concerts and an artist residency. A noontime matinee on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Peterson-Kermani Performance Hall will feature the Alexander String Quartet’s standard lineup, with Zakarias Grafilo on first violin, Frederick Lifsitz on second violin, Paul Yarbrough playing viola, and Sandy Wilson on cello.

Then, for the first time ever on the St. Lawrence campus, the quartet will share the stage with a guest artist to take the form of a piano quintet at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Gulick Theatre. Pianist Joyce Yang will join Alexander String Quartet in performing “Piano Quintet” by Alfred Schnittke, “Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44” by Robert Schumann, “Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34” by Johannes Brahms, and many more.

“This is certainly something different and huge,” said Arts Programming Coordinator Julia Pomainville of guest musician Yang. “Nobody performs Schnittke and (Alexander String Quartet) doesn’t usually share the stage.”

Outside of these two concerts, Alexander String Quartet’s annual artist residency at St. Lawrence will begin Monday, Sept. 21 and conclude Thursday, Sept. 24. With a schedule featuring visits to several music, English and First-Year Program classes, “they are big educators,” Pomainville said. “They teach and they love doing it. Classroom presentations really are their favorites.”

Info: 229-5184 or visit stlawu.edu/music.