Trumpeter Amy Schendel will be joined by two of her University of Iowa School of Music faculty colleagues—pianist Rene Lecuona and organist Greg Hand—and pianist Jason Sifford in a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Schendel and Lecuona will open the program with the Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Iowa City native Wayne Lu, president and founder of the Veritas Musica Publishing Company in Eldora; and Hand will be featured in a performance of the Sonata for Trumpet in C and Organ by German composer Harald Genzmer, who was a student of Paul Hindemith.

With Sifford, Schendel will perform In Memoriam by contemporary American composer Joseph Turrin, L’esprit de la trompette by Chicago composer and trumpeter James M. Stephenson, and Turrin’s arrangement of George Gershwin’s Someone to Watch Over Me.

"Wayne Lu is a friend and fantastic horn player. His sonata was written for his close friend, Kurt Gorman, professor of trumpet at the University of Tennessee at Martin," Schendel says. "Gorman premiered the piece last April. I will be recording Lu's sonata this fall as well as Harald Genzmer's sonata for trumpet and organ."

The L'esprit de la trompette by James Stephenson was written this past June for Brittany Hendricks and premiered at the Grand Valley State University International Trumpet Seminar in July. This piece was commissioned by more than 100 people.

Bio-sketches of the faculty artists are accessible on the School of Music website.

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The School of Music is a unit in the Division of Performing Arts of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.