POTSDAM — SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will feature its talented students and world-renowned faculty artists in a series of upcoming live performances this month.

All performances are free, and the public is invited to attend.

The Crane Symphonic Band and Crane Concert Band will take the stage for a joint performance on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Hosmer Hall. The performance will include works by Kevin Day, Carol Brittin Chambers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Chen Yi, Arthur Frackenpohl, Bob Margolis, Alfred Reed, Frank Ticheli, Joni Greene, Vincent Persichetti, Jennifer Jolley and Omar Thomas. Conducted by Dr. Brian K. Doyle, the Crane Symphonic Band is SUNY Potsdam's oldest wind band. The Crane Concert Band is conducted by Jill Nelson Roberts, and dates back to the earliest days of the Potsdam Normal School's Special Music Department.

A special faculty recital, titled "'Her'story: Music by Women of the 19th and 20th Century," will be offered on Sunday, Oct. 6 at 3 p.m., in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater. The concert will feature clarinetists Dr. Julianne Kirk Doyle and Christine Hoerning, and pianists Julie Miller and Dr. Keilor Kastella. The recital includes pieces by Elisabeth Sachs von Meinengen, Caroline Schleicher-Kraemer, Clara Schumann, Ida Gotkovsky, Fernande Breilh Decruck and Sarah Feigin.

"Many of these works are not often programmed or considered in our standard musical diets, but should be," said Julianne Kirk Doyle, who created the program. "The lives of these women were rich, brilliant, and they did it all -- from being mothers, to running the household, to performing and writing beautiful music. Often overlooked for male composers of the day, they shouldn't have been!"

Dr. Carol Lowe, bassoon, and Julie Miller, piano, will present a faculty recital on Monday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m., also in Snell Theater. The concert will include works by Jean-Baptiste Senaille, Vladimir Bakaleinikoff and Eugene Bozza. The Aria Reed Trio, including Lowe, Kirk Doyle and Anna Hendrickson, oboe, will join for a piece by Fernande Breilh-Decruck. The concert will close with Barbara York's "Sonata for Bassoon and Piano."

The Potsdam Brass Quintet will present its fall concert on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Snell Theater.

The Crane Mariachi Ensemble will lead a lively performance on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m., also in Snell.

The Student Composers Forum will feature an evening of works composed by current Crane School of Music students, on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Snell Theater. In all, six up-and-coming composers will have their newest works performed, including pieces for a variety of small ensembles and fixed media.

Dr. Brian Dunbar, flute, will offer a faculty recital on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m., in Snell Theater.

The Crane School of Music will welcome guest artist Robert Levinger, piano, performing alongside violinist Chihiro Kakishima on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Snell Theater. Kakishima is a visiting assistant professor of violin, and Levinger is an award-winning pianist who has had solo engagements with orchestras across the country.

The events are a community benefit of being home to one of the premier schools of music in the nation -- and thanks to livestreaming, anyone anywhere can watch and enjoy. For program details and more information on these and other upcoming performances, please visit www.potsdam.edu/cranelive.