The concert will feature performances by soprano Lydia Evans, mezzo-soprano Denise Blackmore, tenor Jeffrey Porter and baritone Clovis de Andre.

Martin's program will begin with Mors et Resurrectio ("Death and Resurrection") by Jean Langlais, the blind French 20th-century organist/composer, and continues with Pange Lingua, by an anonymous author from the "Livre d'Orgue de MontrÚal." Two chorales by 17th-century German organist/composer Johann Pachelbel will be included as well; a partita on his O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden and a prelude on his O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid. Pachelbel's compositions influenced Bach and both chorales, although stylistically different from those of Franz Liszt, are employed by Liszt in his simple, unadorned Via Crucis ("Stations of the Cross"), which follows them on the program. The final composition is Sarabande for the Morning of Easter by 20th-century British organist/composer Herbert Howells.

Martin is a member of the faculty of the UB Music Department, where he teaches organ, harpsichord and piano and serves as opera vocal coach and accompanist.

He is musical director of St. Joseph's University Church in Buffalo; assistant musical director and accompanist for the Chautauqua Chamber Singers; founder and director of Speculum Musicae, an ensemble for early music, and, with trumpeter Wade Weast, comprises the trumpet/organ duo "Baroque 'n' Consort." Martin has performed solo recitals throughout Canada, the eastern United States, Bermuda and Europe and, with Weast, performed a recital tour of Europe in 1987.

Tickets for the concert may be purchased at the door for $8 (general admission), $6 (UB community), $5 (senior citizens) and $2 (students). They may also be purchased in advance at the box office in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, Tuesday through Friday between noon and 6 p.m., or at Ticketmaster locations.

A program of sonatas by clarinetist John Fullam and pianist Nancy Townsend will inaugurate the Spring 1996 UB Faculty Recital Series. The concert will take place Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall.

The program will feature Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano by Malcolm Arnold, Sonata for Clarinet Solo by Germaine Tailleferre, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Paul Hindemith; Stravinsky's March, Waltz and Polka; Milhaud's Duo Concertant for Clarinet and Piano, and Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.

The international award-winning Fullam is an adjunct professor in the UB Music Department and principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in a number of venues, including the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with Eugene Ormandy and the Marlboro Festival with Pablo Casals and Rudolf Serkin.

He has also appeared at the Tanglewood Festival with Leonard Bernstein, the Roundtop Festival with Leon Fleisher, the Amalfi Coast Festival and at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and with the London Festival Ballet.

A noted teacher with, among other institutions, the University at Buffalo, the Eastman School of Music and the Philharmonic Conservatory of Caracas, Venezuela, he records on the Marlboro Recording Society Series, the Masters, Pickwick, Mode and Pro Arte labels.

Townsend has demonstrated considerable versatility as a pianist, vocal coach, conductor and stage director and maintains an active coaching and recital schedule. For the past 15 years, she has been an official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is pianist for the Greater Buffalo Opera Company. She has accompanied the master classes of such noted operatic singers as Lucia Albanese, Sherrill Milnes, and Janet Bookspan and served as assistant conductor to Christopher Keene during his tenure at Artpark.

Townsend began directing opera in 1991 and has since staged productions of Rigoletto, La Cenerentola, La Traviata, L'Eliser d'Amore and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Tickets for this event may be purchased at the door for $8 (general admission), $6 (UB community), $5 (senior citizens) and $2 (students). They also may be purchased in advance at the UB Center for the Arts box office, Tuesday through Friday between noon and 6 p.m., or at Ticketmaster locations.

The UB Wind Ensemble directed by Sarah L. McKoin will open UB's Spring 1996 Ensemble Series with a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Slee Concert Hall. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $3 or purchased in advance at the UB Center for the Arts box office, Tuesday through Friday between noon and 6 p.m., or at Ticketmaster locations.