The Federal Way Symphony will kick off its summer chamber music series on Aug. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Knutzen Family Theatre.

Two chamber music works will be performed: Borodin’s String Quartet no. 2 and Schuman’s Piano Quintet in E-flat. Both are major works in this repertoire and represent two distinct musical periods and sensibilities from the 19th century.

Borodin’s work was composed in 1881 and belongs to a movement in St. Petersburg dedicated to uniquely Russian Romantic music. The work was composed by Borodin for his wife on their anniversary, and themes from the piece were adapted and used in the Broadway musical “Kismet.”

Schuman, meanwhile, is considered one of the greatest composers from the Romantic era and lived in Germany in the first half of the 19th century. The Piano Quintet in E-flat was composed in 1842 and is widely considered to be one of Schuman’s best works, as well as one of the most well-known works in the chamber music repertoire.

This is the second of the symphony’s summer chamber music series and will feature Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi, a nationally recognized violinist and current Concertmaster of the Federal Way Symphony, and her husband, Ilka Talvi, an internationally known violinist an émigré from Finland.

Tickets are $35. For more information, visit www.federalwaysymphony.org or contact Kari Wade at 253-252-2693 or kari@federalwaysymphony.org.