UW Music to Present Guest Artist Recital Oct. 7

The University of Wyoming Department of Music will present a chamber recital Monday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m.

Zach Buie, on trumpet, will perform in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

Buie will be accompanied by UW Department of Music Professor Theresa Bogard on piano and joined for a collaboration by visiting Assistant Professor Sarah Herbert on trumpet. The recital will tie together common threads of new music for trumpet and music adapted for trumpet. The recital features works by Debussy, Turrin, Plog, de Falla and Shchedrin.

The recital also will feature the premiere of a new work for trumpet and piano by UW music Professor Anne Guzzo, titled “The Long Road.”

Buie is the assistant professor of trumpet and music history at Boise State University and previously served on the faculty at Western Wyoming Community College. He has performed with numerous orchestras, chamber ensembles and commercial groups, both nationally and internationally, including the Utah Symphony, Macao Orchestra and the Boise Philharmonic. Buie is a former member of the Waco and Round Rock Symphonies, and he toured with Soul Track Mind, a seven-piece original soul/funk band based in Austin, Texas.

Buie champions new music by composers in the Mountain West and is active as a recitalist throughout the region.

Bogard is an active performer and collaborative pianist combining varied interests in historical performance practice, contemporary music, chamber music and the music of women composers. She has presented programs of solo and chamber music both nationally and internationally, including the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. She is featured on a recording of solo piano works by Louise Talma.

Bogard is a Steinway Artist and is currently the head of the Keyboard Area at UW.

Herbert teaches and conducts the UW Trumpet Ensemble. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Miami University Regionals in Hamilton, Ohio.

She also served as director of instrumental music for grades 6-12 at the Menaul School in Albuquerque, N.M. Herbert has performed with diverse ensembles, including jazz/commercial ensembles, orchestras and chamber groups, and numerous musical theater orchestras in Cincinnati and Albuquerque.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirisk@uwyo.edu.