The University of Iowa School of Music will present a faculty recital by Jeffrey Agrell, associate professor of horn, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall in downtown Iowa City. Agrell will be joined by guest artists Matt Smart (piano), William Koehler (bass), and Sean Connors (percussion).

The recital is free and the public is welcome.

The program will feature some pieces that will be wholly invented at the concert. The concert will feature the following titles:

• Down and Dirty by Jeffrey Agrell
• What’s in a Name (improvisation)
• Andalus by William Koehler
• Etude #1 by Ricardo Matosinhos
• Perforations by UI composition graduate student Jason Palamara
• Depiction (improvisation)
• September Elegy by Jeffrey Agrell
• Movements from Variations on How Dry I Am by Jeffrey Agrell
• Sonata Libera (improvisation)

Agrell joined the UI as horn professor in 2000 after a first career as a professional symphony musician. He has won awards as both a writer and composer, with more than 100 published articles and many compositions published, recorded on CD, and performed and broadcast worldwide. He has been a member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society and is very active as a performer and educator, frequently giving concerts and workshops nationally and internationally.

Connors is an ensemble member and technical director of Third Coast Percussion, a percussion quartet based out of Chicago. He has performed with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Signal, and Metropolis Ensemble.

Koehler is professor of music at Illinois State University where he teaches double bass, string techniques and pedagogy, and graduate courses in music education, including the psychology of music, and improvisation. Koehler has performed and given clinics and master classes in England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia and Belo-Russia, Puerto Rico, and throughout the United States.

As a pianist and improviser, Smart has toured nationally and internationally with such groups as Savoy Express, the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus, and Butler University’s Jordan Jazz, among others. He has freely improvised at venues in Brazil, Hong Kong, and domestically, most recently at Iowa City’s IHearIC. In 2005, Smart wrote the music for a full-length musical adaption of Little Women, where he improvised the entire score from the vocal parts in its 16-show run.

The School of Music is part of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For accommodations at the concert contact the School of Music at 319-335-1603. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.