Faculty from three institutions performing at Sandoz Center Sunday

The new group, which has named itself the Trans-Nebraska Players, will kick off its series of concerts at the Chicoine Atrium of the Sandoz Center at 3 p.m. The group will entertain the audience with a portion of J.S. Bach’s “The Musical Offering.”

The Trans-Nebraska Players feature Margetts on piano. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln is represented by David Neely, violin, and Clark Potter, viola. Completing the group are two University of Nebraska at Kearney educators, Franziska Nabb, flute, and Noah Rogoff, cello.

Margetts said Nabb presented the idea to him during the CSC educator's performance last year in Kearney with his friend and flutist Chris Chafee. The Trans-Nebraska Players have rehearsed just once -- while Margetts was traveling to Omaha for a professional conference earlier this year. Its second rehearsal will be Saturday.

“It’s a little crazy, but the music is fun and the individual performers are really great people,” Margetts said. “We’re not all playing on every number, which will make for some nice variety, I think.”

He said the Atrium is a “perfect” venue for their type of performance and that it will be a treat to have classical string players in concert on campus.

In addition to the Chadron concert, the group plans to perform in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Sioux City, Iowa, during next week’s mid-term break. The concert is open to the public free of charge.