POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will offer a guest artist series concert featuring violinist Joseph Kneer and pianist Shirley Yoo, on Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

Kneer and Yoo will present the Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Johannes Brahms, including the Sonata in G-Major, Op. 78, the Sonata in A-Major, Op. 100 and the Sonata in D-Minor, Op. 108.

Admission is free.

Dr. Joseph Kneer is an assistant professor of violin and theory at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Penn. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Oberlin Conservatory, and earned both his Master of Music degree in violin and theory pedagogy and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin performance from the Peabody Institute. Kneer is an active recitalist and orchestral musician, and has performed on numerous concert series in the Midwest and the East Coast. In 2013, Kneer appeared as guest soloist with the Young Artists Debut Orchestra in a performance of Svendsen's "Romance." He was also featured live on Erie Public Radio, as part of the station's Lobby Performance series with pianist Shirley Yoo. Throughout the spring of 2015, the duo will be presenting the complete works of Johannes Brahms for violin and piano on a regional concert tour in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Kneer performs regularly with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and is a contracted member of the Erie Chamber Orchestra's first violin section. Kneer has studied with Mary West, Milan Vitek, Herbert Greenberg and Violaine Melançon, and maintains an active private and collegiate violin studio and string ensemble at Mercyhurst.

The Washington Post declared Dr. Shirley Yoo a pianist with "extraordinary sensitivity and technical skill." Highlights of performances include concerts at Steinway Hall, London; the Penderecki Festival, Banff; Tata Theatre, Mumbai; Societa Filarmonica, Trento, and Arts Center, Seoul. Her honors include a top prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, a Presser Foundation Award and a Maryland State Arts Council Grant. Her primary teachers include Raymond Hanson, Ann Koscielny, Noretta Conci-Leech, and Ellen Mack. Yoo graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University, and received her Master of Music degree on a fellowship with highest honors at the University of Maryland. After attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Peabody Conservatory. Yoo was previously an assistant professor of piano at Mercyhurst University, where she served as the coordinator of the keyboard area and was also artist-in-residence as the pianist of the D'Angelo Trio. She is also a founding core member of the League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS), a chamber group dedicated to performing contemporary and experimental music. She is currently a faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory.

Info: www.potsdam.edu/crane.