The Ohio University Lyric Duo, featuring Alison Brown Sincoff and Gail Berenson, will present a 2 p.m. guest artist concert Sunday (Jan. 27) at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center.

The program will take place in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A). It is free and open to the public. Music will include works by Claude Debussy, Keith Gates, John La Montaine, Otar Taktakishvili and Daniel Kelley.

Brown Sincoff and Berenson are faculty members at the Ohio University School of Music. They are frequent master class and workshop presenters.

Brown Sincoff will present a flute and piccolo master class immediately following the recital, also in Bloch Hall. She is a laureate of several national and international competitions, including first prize in the 1995 National Flute Association (NFA) Orchestral Excerpts Competition and first prize in the 1996 NFA Piccolo Artist Competition.

Brown Sincoff was also a semifinalist in the 1999 Myrna Brown Flute Competition, and was one of only two Americans selected to participate in the Fourth International Flute Competition held in Kobe, Japan.

She holds a bachelors degree in music from the University of Illinois and a master of music from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In addition, she has done doctoral study in flute performance at the University of Cincinnatis College-Conservatory of Music.

Berenson is professor of piano at Ohio University, having served as Keyboard Division Chair for 23 years. She previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

As a result of her distinguished work as a piano pedagogue, along with her reputation as an expert on musician wellness, she is much in demand as a performer, clinician, master class artist, adjudicator, author, reviewer and pedagogy consultant.

She has performed and lectured in more than 30 states, as well as in Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, Portugal and Canada. She holds degrees in piano performance from Northwestern University and is the president of Music Teachers National Association.