At 8 p.m. tonight in Eisenhower Auditorium, The Brandenburg Ensemble will present an evening of Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring Peter Serkin as piano soloist. Serkin will play Bach's Concerto in A Major and Concerto in E Major.

The concert will be conducted by Alexander Schneider, who has over 100 recordings with leading chamber musicians, soloists and orchestras. He is the founder of the Casals festivals in Prades and Puerto Rico and participated in the Marlboro and Israel music festivals and Mostly Mozart in New York.

Serkin was raised in Vermont just a few miles away from the Marlboro Music Festival, which was founded by his father Rudolf Serkin. His father is a pianist and president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His grandfather Adolf Busch was a composer and violinist, and his great-uncle Fritz Busch was a conductor. Serkin's great-grandfather was an instrument maker.

The conductor of Serkin's first public concert when he was 12-years old at the Marlboro Festival was Schneider. He has since received national acclaim. He won the Deutsche Schallplaten Prize for his recordings of the six Mozart concertos written in 1784. He was also the first pianist to win the Premio Accademia Musicale Chigian Sienna, a new international prize.

Serkin made one other Artists Series performance in 1984.