POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will present a guest artist recital by the Virginia Tech Chamber Players on Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

The Virginia Tech Chamber Players is comprised of soprano Ariana Wyatt, clarinetist Phillip O. Paglialonga and pianist Richard Masters.

The concert will open with Franz Schubert's "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen," followed by "Sonata, Op. 94" by Sergei Prokofiev, transcribed by Kent Kennan. The ensemble will also present Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Six Romances, Op. 38," concluding with "Variazioni Concertanti" by Otto Nicolai, written on motives from Bellini's "La Sonnambula."

Originally from Southern California, soprano Ariana Wyatt is now based in Virginia. Her roles include Adina in "L'Elisir d'Amore," Micaela in "The Tragedy of Carmen," Serpetta in Mozart's "La Finta Gardiniera," Violetta in "La Traviata," Isifile in Cavalli's "Giasone," Helena in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Mabel in "The Pirates of Penzance." She has performed for opera companies including Gotham Chamber Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Roanoke, Opera on the James, the Juilliard Opera Center and Aspen Opera Theater. An avid concert artist, her recent appearances include those with the Ameropa Festival in Prague, the Parma Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and the New York Festival of Song. An enthusiastic advocate for contemporary art song and opera, she has premiered and championed chamber works by Alan Smith, Daron Hagen, Gregory Hutter and Kent Holliday. Wyatt won first place in the Metropolitan Opera Competition Western Region in 2003. She has also been a finalist at the Charles A. Lynam Vocal Competition and a winner of the New West Symphony and Pasadena Opera competitions. She is a graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center, the Santa Fe Apprentice Program for singers, the Glimmerglass Opera Young Artist Program, and the Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Program. Wyatt earned both her Bachelor of Music and her Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. She is an assistant professor of voice at Virginia Tech.

Phillip O. Paglialonga, clarinet, currently serves on the faculty at Virginia Tech. He did his undergraduate study at DePaul University, and earned his master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. Paglialonga has held positions with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, Haddonfield Symphony and Walt Disney World Orchestra. He has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Sarasota Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Orlando Philharmonic, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony, New World Symphony, Windsor Symphony and Charleston Symphony. Paglialonga has also performed at several summer festivals, including the National Repertory Orchestra, the Music Academy of the West and Lake George Opera. He is a founding member of the PEN Trio, which regularly tours both in the United States and abroad. In the summer months, Paglialonga is on the faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan where he performs with the Festival Orchestra. Paglialonga recently published a book with Imagine Music Publishing, titled "Squeak Big: Practical Fundamentals for the Successful Clarinetist." He is a Gonzalez Artist and performs exclusively on Gonzalez GD reeds.

Richard Masters is a soloist, opera coach, chamber musician and orchestral pianist, and is a member of the music faculty at Virginia Tech. Masters has performed solo, chamber and vocal recitals throughout the U.S. and in Europe. His significant collaborations include concerts with baritone Donnie Ray Albert, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Findlen, mezzo-soprano Barbara Conrad and many others. He has appeared with former Boston Symphony principal trombonist Norman Bolter, former Juilliard String Quartet violinist Earl Carlyss, saxophonist Harvey Pittel and under the baton of Lorin Maazel. As a solo pianist, Masters plays a wide variety of standard and non-traditional repertoire, including contemporary pieces written for or commissioned by him. A strong proponent of contemporary American composers, he has performed world premieres of pieces by Daniel Catàn, Kenneth Frazelle, Kent Holliday, Christopher Ozley and others. Recent performances include appearances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City, as well as concerts in Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. Masters earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, before completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

This concert will broadcast live at www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.