Two guest artists will perform violin sonatas by three well-known composers Sunday, Sept. 14, at West Virginia University.

The recital by violinist David Sariti of the University of Virginia and pianist Lise Keiter-Brotzman of Mary Baldwin College will begin at 3 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) of the Creative Arts Center.

The program will feature Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven;Sonataby Aaron Copland; and Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 13 by Edvard Grieg.

Sariti is a performer, teacher and author. His activities as a chamber musician include regular concerts with the University of Virginia Rivanna Quartet. Accomplished also on the Baroque violin, he performs with harpsichordist Bradley Lehman and the Washington Bach Consort and is featured on the forthcoming CDMusic from Monticello,a recording of works from the collection of Thomas Jefferson. He also performs at the University of Virginia as principal second violinist of the Charlottesville and University Symphony.

Sariti has taught violin and music history at the Hartt School and is a coach and clinician. He completed his doctorate at Hartt in the Honors Chamber Music program and recently edited a sonata by Heinrich Lizkau for its first-ever publication by Kings Music of London. He also has degrees from the University of Akron and Ithaca College.

Keiter-Brotzman has performed nationwide as a solo recitalist, collaborative artist and soloist with orchestra. In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship to study at the Internationale Academie de Musique in Gargenville, France. In 2006, she returned to France to perform two concerts as part of the International Roussel Festival. In November 2006, she was the featured soloist in a performance of Beethovens Third Piano Concerto at Elon University, and she also recently performed GriegsPiano Concertowith the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra.

Keiter-Brotzman joined the faculty at Mary Baldwin College in 1998 and is currently the chair of the music department. Her work at Mary Baldwin led to her interest in the music of women composers, and in 2005, she developed an all-women composers program of solo piano works in honor of the bicentenary year of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. She was awarded a sabbatical leave during the 2008 spring semester and returned to the women composersproject with a series of recitals, lectures and master classes throughout the United States.

Originally from Charleston, Ill., Keiter-Brotzman has a bachelors degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a masters degree and doctorate from Indiana University.

For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4841 ext. 3108.