The First Tuesday Concert Series features "A Night of a Classical String Duet" on March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. This concert is free and open to the public.

The First Tuesday series, now in its 14th year, features regional professional artists on the first Tuesdays of five months during the year. Dr. Susan Roe, director of music for the School of Liberal Arts, is the First Tuesday program director.

"A Night of a Classical String Duet" spotlights "Nephina," a duo comprised of violinist Nina Lutz and guitarist Nephtali Santiago. The duo's programming features the music of Bach, Nin Culmell, Albeniz Lauro and Astor Piazzolla, as well as arrangements for guitar and violin works from the "Great American Song Book."

Lutz is the string area chair at Valdosta State University and has been concertmaster of the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the VSU Faculty String Quartet since 1992. She also teaches applied violin, music theory and functional piano at VSU.

Santiago's first teachers included Harold Cobo and Bill Viola. He received a bachelor's degree in guitar performance at Temple University, where he studied with Peter Segal and was active as a teacher and performer. He was also the first Temple guitarist to win the Concerto Soloists Competition. He teaches guitar at VSU.