EUGENE–Jazz standards, traditional and contemporary gospel music, operatic scenes and arias, Baroque and Renaissance pieces and the vocal artistry of soprano Ann Liebeck will be featured in the five concerts scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

For more information, call the UO School of Music weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

The Oregon Opera Ensemble, directed by Francis Graffeo, will perform scenes and arias from famous operas at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

Graduate and undergraduate voice students will perform selections from "The Magic Flute," "Die Fledermaus," "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Pasquale," "Manon" and other operas. Assistant directors are graduate teaching fellows David Howell and Sarah Dornblaser.

Though the emphasis is on the singing, the numbers will be performed with simple staging and costuming. Piano accompaniment is by graduate students Komiko Shimizu, Lynn Riihamaki and Charlane Lines.

The Oregon Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Bands will give their fall concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and seniors.

Jazz saxophonist Dan Gailey will be the featured guest artist with the Oregon Jazz Ensemble, conducted by graduate teaching fellow Pat Dixon. The ensemble will perform "Got a Match?" by Chick Corea, "First Circle" by Pat Metheney and "Empty House" by Jim McNeely.

Gailey, a freelance saxophonist in Seattle, Denver and Kansas City, is director of jazz studies at the University of Kansas and previously was associate director of jazz studies at the University of Northern Colorado. While at UNC, Gailey received five Downbeat "deebee" Awards for his writing and playing, three of them in consecutive years as winner of the Best Original Composition category. He also won the Grand Prize for composition in the 1986 Elevox Open Jazz Competition.

The Jazz Lab Bands, directed by graduate teaching fellows Jared Burrows and Chad Sullivan, will perform such selections as "Skylark" by Hoagy Carmichael, "Nica’s Dream" by Horace Silver and "Take the ‘A’ Train" by Duke Ellington.

The University Gospel Choir, under the direction of Julia Neufeld, will perform gospel selections at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

Selections on the program include "Holy Is The Lord," "Dance All Night Long," "You Brought The Sunshine," "What A Fellowship," "I Exhalt Thee," "Can’t Stop Praisin’," "King Jesus is a-Listening" and "Go Tell It On The Mountain."

The University Gospel Choir is made up of more than 100 UO students, with instrumental backup provided by Dustin Lanker, Mark Schneider, Jason Palmer and Nick Levine.

Soprano Ann Liebeck, a professional singer from England, will give a vocal recital at 5:30 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is free.

Liebeck, accompanied by UO faculty pianist Gregory Mason, will perform small groupings of songs by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Claude Debussy. Also on her program is "How Fair is this Spot" by Rachmaninoff, "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Russian Nightingale" by Alabiev and "Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios" by Rodrigo.

Liebeck studied at the Royal College of Music’s Opera School, where she won numerous prizes, including the Shakespeare Prize Bursary, enabling her to complete her studies at the Vienna State Opera Studio.

She made her American debut as the Queen of the Night ("The Magic Flute") with the Pittsburgh Opera, a role she also has performed at the Vienna Volksopera, the National Theatre in Prague, Braunschweig Staatstheater, and on tour in Paris and Spain. In addition, Liebeck has sung Lucia ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Gilda ("Rigolett") and Constanze ("The Abduction from the Seraglio") for the Czech State Opera in Prague and for Scottish Opera-Go-Round.

Her concert work includes Verdi’s "Requiem" with Sir Colin Davis, Handel’s "Messiah" with Sir David Willcocks, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Mozart’s "Requiem" and "Exultate Jubilate" with the London Festival Orchestra, and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Salem summer festival in New York.

Liebeck has recorded the role of Frasquita (Carmen) on the Naxos label with Alexander Rahabari and "Carmina Burana" and Handel’s "Messiah" for the German record label BMG Arte Nova. She has appeared on Austrian and German television, and her performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, Italian Radio and France Musique.

The Collegium Musicum will perform music of the Baroque and Renaissance periods at 8 p.m. in Room 198 of the Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free.

The program contains a variety of chamber, theater and church music from the late 16th to late 18th centuries, including selections by Marenzio, Schein, Colonna, Pergolesi, Bach, Mozart and others.

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