HATTIESBURG -- Faculty artists in the School of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a concert at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 6 at Marsh Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus. 

As part of the 2005-06 Camerata Faculty Artist Chamber Music Series, the concert will open with Mozart's “Serenade,” K. 388 for eight winds, featuring a collection of current and former Southern Miss music faculty.  Lois Leventhal and Joe Brumbeloe will perform the “Sonata for Two Pianos,” K. 521, followed by Mozart’s “Flute Quartet,” K. 285b, featuring new Southern Miss faculty member Danilo Mezzadri as flutist.  Jorge Gonzalez, Hsiaopei Lee and Alexander Russakovsky will collaborate on strings.

The concert will close with Mozart's most beloved choral piece, “Ave verum corpus,” sung by Kerrin Hightower, Beth Everett, Byron Johnson and J. Taylor Hightower, accompanied by a woodwind quintet.

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to benefit the School of Music scholarship fund.   For more information, call the School of Music at 601.266.5543.