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Concert V, 1995-96 Slee Organ Recital Series, Craig Cramer, Sunday, March 3, 5 p.m., Slee Concert Hall, UB North Campus $8, $6, $5, $2.

Program: Prelude and Fugue in D-Sharp minor, op. 56 by Otto Olsson; Partita diverse sopra: Sei gegrÄsset, Jesu gÄtig by J.S. Bach; Toccata by American composer/organist Leo Sowerby, and Zweite Sonate, op. 60 by Max Reger.

Organist Craig Cramer is an associate professor of music at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches organ and organ literature. He has performed in 35 states and in Belgium, Canada and Germany.

Cramer graduated from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., and holds both a doctorate in organ performance and a prestigious performer's certificate in organ from the Eastman School of Music.

"Second Thoughts"-Composers transcribe their own work; Faculty Recital Series; Thomas Halpin, violin; Shirley Irek, piano; Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m., Slee Concert Hall, UB North Campus; $8, $6, $5, $2

Program: Performances of composers' transcriptions of their own work-a second arrangement by the composer for instrument or voice other than the original. Selections are Brahms' Sonata for Violin and Piano (from his Clarinet Sonata, op. 20. no. 1); selections from Copland's Billy the Kid and Rodeo; Stravinsky's Divertimento (from The Fairy's Kiss), and Erich Korngold's Suite, op. 11 (from his Much Ado About Nothing).

Described by The London Times as an "undemonstratively excellent violinist," Thomas Halpin has been a violin soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada, and has recorded works by Lou Harrison, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson and Christian Wolff.

He also has collaborated with Harrison, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass and Henry Brant in performances of their works. A graduate of Yale College, Halpin lives and teaches in Amherst, where he has been a member of the UB violin faculty since 1982.

Shirley Irek is a solo and collaborative pianist who has performed throughout the U.S. with noted vocal and instrumental performers. As a member of the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, she has appeared throughout the U.S. and in Portugal and France.

She appears regularly as a duo-pianist with Robert Chumbley. The two have toured the U.S. many times, as well as Africa and Europe, and premiered Memento for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Colgrass.

The former chair of the Piano Department at the University of Nebraska, Irek is now a visiting professor of music at UB. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School.

Concert V, 1995-96 Slee Visiting Artist Series; Walden Horn Trio: Robert Routch, horn; Ani Kavafian, violin; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Wednesday, March 27, 8 p.m., Slee Concert Hall, UB North Campus; $10, $8, $5, $4.

Program: The deeply melodic trio of Twilight Music by contemporary composer John Harbison, Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for Horn and Piano, and Debussy's Sonata for Violin and Piano, as well as their signature piece, Brahms' Trio in E flat for Piano, Violin and Horn, op. 40.

The members of the Walden Horn Trio have enjoyed diversified careers and are individually well-known for their chamber-music performances. They founded the trio in 1990 to give their own special life to the haunting rhythms and heart-tugging melodies of Brahms' Horn Trio and to explore other repertoire, including transcribing classic works such as Schubert's Trio and commissioning Henri Lazarof's 1994 Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano.

Robert Routch and Ani Kavafian are artist members of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center, with whom Routch performs and records. He has performed as a soloist with more than 50 orchestras throughout the world. Kavafian performs at many festivals and has appeared with virtually all of America's leading orchestras. She has been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.

Anne-Marie McDermott regularly appears at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and has been guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico.