EUGENE–A scholarship benefit concert featuring progressive acoustic jazz and a chamber music performance "in the Viennese tradition" highlight the two 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.

Percussionist Charles Dowd and a group of School of Music faculty and friends will honor the late Edward Kammerer during a Kammerer-Dowd Jazz Reunion at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge at Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St.

Tickets for the Faculty Artist Series concert, available at the door, are $7 for general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. The evening also will include a jam session and a compact disc release party.

Kammerer, who died of leukemia in 1993, was an accomplished jazz pianist and horn player as well as a beloved member of the UO music faculty for more than 20 years. In 1982, Gov. Victor Atiyeh named Kammerer Oregon’s musician laureate.

The Charles Dowd "Goodvibes" Jazz Quartet will host the event, which will benefit the Kammerer Jazz Piano Scholarships at the School of Music. Performers–all former jazz musicians with Kammerer–include Dowd on vibraphone, Forrest Moyer on acoustic bass, Steve Owen on saxophones and Alan Keown on drums. The concert will feature progressive acoustic modern jazz selections, including works by Kammerer, Dowd, Gary Burton, Bobby Hutcherson, Chick Corea, Bobby Shew, Milt Jackson and others.

The reunion jam session will feature bassist Edwin Coleman and saxophonists Thom Bergeron, Carl Woideck and Jim Olsen, along with trumpeter Ernie Carbajal, guitarist Don Latarski and other prominent Oregon jazz musicians.

A compact disc featuring Kammerer’s jazz piano work will be released on the CDM Productions label, pressed by Sony Disc Manufacturing of Springfield. Kammerer’s son David is executive producer of the project. All proceeds from the CD benefit jazz piano scholarships.

The Altenberg Trio, an Austrian chamber ensemble in the "Viennese tradition," will give a Chamber Music Series concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave.

Reserved-seat tickets range from $8 to $22, available in advance from the Hult Center, (541) 682-5000, or from the Erb Memorial Union Ticket Office, 346-4363. Student tickets will be sold at the door for $5 and $9.

The program will include a set of six etudes by Robert Schumann, plus Beethoven’s "Piano Trio in D Major" and Mendelssohn’s "Trio in D Minor." The concert will be preceded by a free talk at 7:15 p.m. in Room 198 of the music school, with insights and recorded examples of the concert repertoire.

The Altenberg Trio draws its inspiration from the period of 1862—1938 when Vienna was considered one of the world’s most important cultural centers.

Formed in 1994, the Altenberg Trio enjoys a splendid reputation among international chamber music ensembles. They have been enthusiastically received in the United States, Canada and such European countries as Denmark, France, Switzerland, Holland, the Czech Republic (Prague Spring Festival) and Italy. They often perform throughout their native Austria and are the trio-in-residence at the Musikverein in Vienna, where they have their own concert series.

The three musicians–Claus Christian Schuster, Martin Hornstein and Amiram Ganz–have impressive individual chamber music reputations, and they take great pride in remaining faithful to the style and tradition of the "Viennese sound" so often admired in reviews. They chose their name in honor of the renowned Viennese poet Peter Altenberg, who was a contemporary and compatriot of several famous Viennese artists at the turn of the century, including composers Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler and Erich Korngold, and painters Egon Schiele, Oscar Kokoschka and Gustav Klimt.

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