EUGENE–Three concerts featuring music for voice, horn and piano, new musical compositions and trumpet repertoire from classical to contemporary are scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

For more information, call the music school 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.

Soprano Ann Tedards, pianist Gregory Mason and guest hornist Mary Bisson will give a Faculty Artist Series recital titled "Music for Voice, Horn and Piano" at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The program includes various combinations of the three artists, performing "Five Folksongs" by John McCabe, "Evening Song" by V. Buyanofsky, "Don’t Let That Horse" by Judith Weir, "Nocturnes" by Arnold Cooke and "Le Soir" by Charles Gounod.

Tedards, an associate professor of voice at the University of Oregon, has performed as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony, Austrian Radio Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Vienna Boys Choir, Washington Bach Consort, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, New York Pro Musica Antiqua, Amor Artis Orchestra (New York), and numerous chamber ensembles in the United States and Europe.

Her opera experience includes performances at opera houses in Germany and Austria. Festival appearances include solo performances with the Viennese Schubertiade, Carinthian Summer Festival, Oregon Bach Festival and the Indianapolis Festival of Music.

Tedards has performed as a soloist with the Oregon Repertory Singers, Classical Consort of Seattle, Oregon Bach Festival, and the Third Angle New Music Ensemble (Portland). She is the recipient of the Mozart Prize from the Françisco Viñas International Voice Competition in Barcelona, and she has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society and Orfeo labels.

Bisson has had a dual-track career as an accomplished performer and teacher of the horn. She began her professional career at age 18 as principal hornist of La Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo in Venezuela. Since then, she has been a member of La Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, the Louisville Orchestra and the Chautauqua Symphony. She joined the Baltimore Symphony in 1983.

She has toured the United States as a soloist and chamber music artist, and performs on the classical and baroque horns with Pro Musica Rara. In 1992 Bisson joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

Mason is a member of the UO piano faculty, where he teaches accompanying and chamber music. Among his recital credits are tours of Central and South America, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, the Casals Festival, the United Nations, the Yale Collection of Historic Instruments, and Carnegie Recital Hall. Mason also has given recitals in Chicago, Cincinnati, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Reno, and he has done a PBS recital with baritone William Warfield.

Mason worked for seven years as coach and accompanist in New York City, where he was pianist for the American Music Competition, the Vincent La Selva opera classes at the Juilliard School, and a Placido Domingo master class at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1999, Mason performed a recital of German lieder at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with Grammy-winning soprano Susan Dunn.

The Oregon Composers Forum will present new music by undergraduate composition majors at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is free.

Among the program selections are "The Last Lullaby," a piano solo by Tamara Turner; "String Quartet #1" by McKenzie Stubbert; and "An American Suite" for piano by Jacob Groff.

Trumpet students of George Recker will give a class recital at 8:15 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is free. The program will feature a wide variety of trumpet solos and small group selections, ranging from classical to contemporary composers.

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