UNL’s Karen Becker will play a world premiere in a 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15 faculty recital in Kimball Hall. Admission is free.

Becker, professor of cello, will be joined by Jay Mauchley, guest pianist, in playing the premiere of Laurence Sherr’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano: Mir zayen do.” Becker and Mauchley will also perform Richard Strauss’ “Sonata for Cello and Piano.”

Sherr will attend the performance and give a brief talk about his new work. Also, Kate Butler, associate professor of voice, will perform three Yiddish songs that provided inspiration for Sherr’s sonata.

The performance will be webcast live.

Becker is an active soloist and avid chamber player, having performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Mexico and Puerto Rico. She is faculty artist with the Red Lodge Music Festival and has served as faculty artist with Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Praque.

Sherr is composer-in-residence and a professor of music at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. He is active as a composer of Holocaust memorial music and is a lecturer on music and the Holocaust.

Renowned as a brilliant soloist and chamber musician, Mauchley has played hundreds of recitals to critical acclaim throughout the United States and Europe including numerous duo-piano concerts. He is currently professor emeritus of piano at the University of Idaho.

For more information, go to http://arts.unl.edu/news/music.