VALPARAISO | A Valparaiso University music professor who recently released an album featuring romantic violin songs by Scandinavian composers will perform selections from the CD during a Nov.

9 recital.

Gregory Maytan, an assistant professor of music who grew up in Sweden, will perform works from "Scandinavia" during his recital, which begins at 3 p.m. in Valparaiso's Center for Arts. The recital is free and open to the public.

Maytan will perform works by Swedish and Norwegian composers including Amanda Maier's Sonata in B minor, Edvard Grieg's Sonata No. 1 in F Major and Tor Aulin's "Four Watercolors." He will be accompanied by pianist Nicole Lee.

"As a young violin student I studied Scandinavian music in Sweden but found, upon moving to the United States, that most of this music is virtually unknown to the rest of the world," Maytan said. "It is my hope that this music will give people a glimpse of the musical treasures of my native Scandinavia."

Maytan won the 2004 International Chamber Music Festival competition in Austria and in 2006 took third prize in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's competition for young Swedish violinists.

In addition to Dr. Maytan's faculty recital, upcoming student recitals are:

 Nov. 12 n Robert Herrold, a senior music education major from

Westville, will perform classical guitar works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Albeniz, Agustin Barrios and Federico Moreno Torroba. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts.

 Nov. 14 n Doug Fry, a senior music performance and chemistry

major from St. Charles, Ill., will perform piano works by Beethoven, Ravel and Prokofieff; and Fritz Gross, a junior music performance major from Oak Park, Ill., will perform violin works by Beethoven, Vivaldi, Jarnefelt and Beriot. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts.

--For The Times