The Hutchins Consort is coming to Lawrence to perform at the Lied Center and participate in residency activities that will take the group to central Kansas.

The consort will perform at 2 p.m. April 14 at the Lied Center. The program will include “Missa L’Homme Arme” by Giavanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; “Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte” by Joseph-Maurice Ravel; “Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine” by Franz Liszt; “Octet Comparsas” by Kevin Walczyk; “Intermission Riff” by Stan Keaton; “Fantasia in C Minor” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; “Suite for Strings” by Leos Janacek; and “Summertime” by George Gershwin.

A pre-performance lecture will be given at 1 p.m. by Paul Laird, a musicologist at Kansas University. The concert will run about one hour and 40 minutes.

The eight-member consort performs on scaled violins designed by luthier Carleen Hutchins. The violins are the first successful attempt to create an acoustically balanced set of instruments that sound like violins across the entire range of written music from the tiny treble violin to the contrabass violin.

The ensemble’s residency activities will be from Wednesday to April 14 and includes a two-day stint in Minneapolis, Kan. The group’s artistic director, Joe McNally, grew up in Wichita and his father grew up in Minneapolis.

In Lawrence, the group will conduct a clinic with the Central Junior High School Orchestra, work with an acoustics class at KU, present a school performance at the Lied Center and appear at a KU music department convocation.

Tickets range from $11 to $27. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Box Office, 864-ARTS; Murphy Hall Box Office, 864-3982; Student Union Activities Box Office, 864-3477; Ticketmaster outlets, (785) 234-4545 or (816) 931-3330; and online

at www.tickets.com and www.TicketMaster.com.