If you’re in the area and you’d enjoy a musical serenade to go along with your peanut butter and banana sandwich, head on over to The College of New Jersey in Ewing for today’s “brown bag” concert.

Laura Oltman, who has taught guitar at Princeton University for over three decades, will join her husband, Michael Newman, who is new to the TCNJ faculty. Newman & Oltman will perform works for guitar duet by Ferdinando Carulli, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Astor Piazzolla.

In addition, flutist Jayn Rosenfeld will join Oltman for Mauro Giuliani’s Gran Duetto Concertante, Op. 52. The hour-long concert will be held at Mayo Concert Hall in the college’s music building, beginning at 12:30. Bagged lunches are welcome.

Oltman and Rosenfeld will repeat the Giuliani work on Sunday, as part of concert by Richardson Chamber Players, to be held at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, beginning at 3. The predominantly wind program will also include works by Mozart and Francis Poulenc. Oltman will preface Poulenc’s Sextet with a late guitar work, the “Sarabande,” from 1960.

Newman also teaches at Mannes College of Music in New York, and Oltman at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo is ensemble-in-residence at Mannes.

Husband and wife will reunite for a Christmas concert at Villa Milagro Vineyards in Finesville, NJ, on Dec. 6 at 6:30 p.m.

To learn more about it – and them – check out my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/11/classical_music_newman_oltman.html

PHOTO: Newman & Oltman: Zing! go the strings of their art