by Dolores Fox Ciardelli text: Piano fans, take note: Mark Anderson and Tamriko Siprashvili have put together another exciting program for their annual two-piano concert next Saturday, Feb. 12.

The internationally acclaimed pianists - who met at the Leeds Piano Competition in England in 1990, married in 1993 and settled in Pleasanton - give a concert each year to benefit the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council's Arts in the Schools program.

The concert, sponsored by Civic Arts Presents, will begin with "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46," which includes "Morning," "The Death of Ase," "Anitra's Dance" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Next it's "Three Preludes" by George Gershwin and the "Hallelujah Junction" by John Adams. After intermission, it is time for waltzes, with Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz," Brahms' "Five Waltzes" and Ravel's "La Valse."

"We try to make a balanced program, a little old, a little new," Anderson has explained in the past.

Their compact disk recorded last year, a two-piano transcription of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," will be for sale at the concert. The CD has been well received internationally, said Anderson, resulting in an invitation to participate in the prestigious December Evenings Festival Series in Moscow.