In celebration of 20 years at UNLV, music professors Janis McKay, bassoon, and Andrew Smith, cello, perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, in the Doc Rando Recital Hall in the Beam Music Center. The program includes music by Beethoven, Glinka, Cassad?, Lars Erik Larsson, and Vivaldi. Additional performers include Mykola Suk, Timothy Hoft, and Anthony Barone.

Admission is free.

McKay performs as principal bassoon for the Classical Music Festival in Austria and as Contrabassoon for the Reno Philharmonic. She has held positions and performed with numerous orchestras including the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, among many others. A busy freelance musician in Las Vegas, McKay has performed and/or toured with such artists as Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Charlotte Church, John Williams, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, Metallica, Stevie Wonder, and Tony Bennett.

Smith performs regularly as a member of The Cerberus Trio. He is a member of the Camerata Dei?, a group founded in 2001 to be the resident ensemble with The Festival Internacional de Dei?, a summer festival in Mallorca, Spain. He is also a founding member of The Adriatic Chamber Music Festival, a summer music program in southern Italy. He has taught and performed with the program since its inception in 1998.