This concert, one of the 1995-96 UB Ensemble Series, will feature the following student performers:

Alex Kort is pursuing a master's degree in the humanities in music and media study. Also on the program will be percussionist Christopher Swist and mezzo-soprano Barbara Cooper, winners of this year's Baird Concerto Competition.

Kort will present Mindstream, an arrangement of a song by the techno group Meat Beat Manifesto, later remixed by The Orb. This version by Kort, written for orchestra and film, is a low-tech marriage of sound and image employing projections of cameraless animation accompanied by unamplified acoustic instruments.

Swist, now in the fourth year of his UB music-performance program, studied for three years under Jan Williams and is now studying under Tony Miranda. He has performed with UB's Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble and Jazz Combo, and has been the timpanist in the UBuffalo Symphony for two years.

Although Swist is a performer, he also composes for marimba and recently finished a piece for solo marimba that he will premier at a student recital later his year. Here, he will perform contemporary composer Ney Rosauro's Marimba Concerto.

Cooper is an experienced and seasoned professional vocalist who has performed with many distinguished orchestras and ensembles, including the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Chorus Pro Musica, the Russian Chamber Chorus of Boston and the Boston Symphony's regular and summer season programs. She also has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She is pursuing a master's degree in vocal performance at UB under Sylvia Dimiziani.

Cooper will present Mahler's four romantic Songs of a Wayfarer, which record the young composer's experiences with an unhappy love affair while working at the Kassel court theater in Germany in the mid-1880s. Here, Mahler evokes the rejected lover wandering through town and country in helpless sorrow, resigned to a quiet, lonely death.

The performance groups will include the UB Wind Ensemble; UBuffalo Symphony; UB Symphonic Band; Buffalo CHIPS, the UB men's a cappella swing group; UB Guitar Ensemble; UB Choir; UB Flute Choir; UB Piano Trio, and the UB Flute and Violin Chamber Ensemble.

The ensembles will be placed throughout Slee Concert Hall, and will perform one immediately after the other and without applause. The choreography will be reinforced by special lighting that focuses the audience's attention on the performing ensemble and changes as the performing groups change.

The complete program will be announced at a later date. Call Slee concert manager Phil Rehard at 645-2921 after March 1 for details.