Percussionist James Dreier, a faculty member in the jazz studies program of the University of Iowa School of Music, will feature special guests Joel Vanderheyden, saxophone, and Brian Smith, trumpet, in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

Other members of his ensemble will be percussionist Chris Reichmeier, bassist Scott Barnum, and guitarist Jose Emilio Gobbo Jr.

They will perform Dreier’s “Schlooze” and “Ciente,” “Well You Needn’t” by Thelonious Monk, Gobbo’s “Partido,” “Orfeu Negro” by Louis Bonfa, and Vanderheyden’s “Tanzania Life Project.”

Dreier is a busy Iowa percussionist and educator, and was a founding member of the venerable Latin/jazz group Orquesta Alto Maiz, which has released eight CDs. He has written articles for Percussive Notes (Journal of the Percussive Arts Society) and Modern Drummer Magazine. He directs the UI Latin/jazz Ensemble and the World Beat Ensemble, and co-leads the Afro Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble.

Vanderheyden, a UI alumnus, is currently director of jazz at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo. His UI doctoral studies in classical saxophone with Kenneth Tse and studies in jazz with Chris Vadala at the University of Maryland have contributed to his broad approach to the saxophone and musical expression. As part of his UI studies he recorded the acclaimed CD “Complete Life.” Vanderheyden and Smith are members of the Koplant No ensemble.

The School of Music is a unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the live event, contact the school at 319-335-1603. For UI arts events, visit the new Arts Iowa website.