EUGENE–A University Symphony concert featuring three outstanding student soloists and a Faculty Artist Series recital showcasing trumpet and percussion repertoire 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.

The University Symphony, under the direction of Professor Wayne Bennett, will accompany three outstanding student soloists in its annual Concerto Competition concert at 3 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.

The soloists, who were selected last term from a school-wide competition designed to showcase outstanding performers in a formal symphony concert format, are:

• So Yun Jeong, a junior music from Beaverton, who will perform the first movement of Haydn’s "Cello Concerto in C." Jeong is a student of Steven Pologe.

• Ezra Bartz, a junior majoring in piano performance from Eugene. He will perform the first movement of Prokofiev’s "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra." Bartz studies with Victor Steinhardt.

• Dan Mitchum, a doctoral degree student in clarinet performance from Eugene. He will perform the final movement of Carl Maria von Weber’s "Concerto No. 2" for clarinet and orchestra. Mitchum is a student of Wayne Bennett.

In addition to accompanying the three soloists, the orchestra will perform two suites from "The Three-Cornered Hat" by Manuel de Falla.

Trumpeter Stephen Dunn and guest percussionist John Pennington will give a Faculty Artist Series recital at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

Program selections include "Incantation" by Howard Buss, "Five Spanish Songs" by Manuel de Falla, "Mosaic" by UO Assistant Professor David Crumb and "Interludes" by Marilyn Harris and Mark Wolfram. In addition, they will perform a new composition by a UO graduate student.

Dunn joined the UO brass, theory and jazz faculty in 1999 and is a member of the Oregon Brass Quintet. Currently a doctor of musical arts degree candidate at Arizona State University, Dunn earned a Master of Music degree in trumpet performance at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree at the University of North Texas. He also has studied music at the Yale Summer School of Music and the Freiburg Music Hochschule in Germany.

Dunn performed for years as a member of the Denver Brass–an 11-piece ensemble with a lengthy concert series and several recordings–and with the Aries Brass Quintet, which has been established for more than 20 years and concertizes internationally. He also has performed with numerous professional orchestras, including the Utah and Phoenix symphonies.

A soloist with several orchestras and bands across the country and in Germany, Dunn performs with the Music in the Mountains festival and the Oregon Festival of American Music.

Pennington, an associate professor of music at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo., is the percussion and music theory instructor as well as artistic director of the Animas Music Festival. A graduate of the universities of Michigan, Arizona and Arizona State, he is an orchestral percussionist who performs with the Santa Fe Opera, the Music in the Mountains International Music Festival, the Animas Music Festival, Flagstaff Festival for the Arts, San Juan Symphony, Arizona Opera and Ballet, and the Phoenix, Ann Arbor, Saginaw and Tucson symphonies. He also has performed and recorded with Ensemble 21 and Summit Brass, and recorded for the Summit, OCP and Equilibrium labels.

Recent recordings include "Transformations," which is a collection of stories with music composed and performed by Pennington. Other releases include "In The Heart of the Desert," "Behind and Before Me" and "As One Unknown" with Cyprian Consiglio, as well as the Grammy-nominated album "Amancer" by Peter Rubalcava, on which Pennington was a marimba soloist. He also recorded all the percussion to the soundtrack for the Touchstone film "Dinosaurs" and recorded on Disney’s "Electric Light Parade" production.

Pennington recently completed a three-city concert tour in Italy and has performed concerts all over North America, as well as in Russia, Poland and Estonia. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meet the Composer Series, and was the 1996 recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Co-Vision Recognition Award.

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