Free and open to the public, the hour-long concert will feature an array of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments, according to Tony Oliver, director of percussion studies.

Among the selections will be "Norrsken" by Anders Astrand, which features mallet instruments depicting the Northern Lights; "Amores" by John Cage, an avant-garde work using a trio of percussionists plus a piano player; and "Clapping Music" by Steve Reich, which, said Oliver, is minimalist music featuring subtly changing rhythmic patterns that have an "almost hypnotic quality and requires great concentration on the part of the players."

Other featured works will include "Dotty Dimples" by George Hamilton Green, a ragtime xylophone solo that was a popular genre in the 1920s; "Quartet for Paper Bags" by Larry Spival; and "Ku-Ka Illimoku" by Christopher Rouse, a complicated arrangement with numerous instruments portraying aspects of a Hawaiian war god.

Along with the regular members of the ensemble (Sharon David, Jered Piepenbrink, Chris Gosda and Bendan Murphy), students from the music department’s Percussion Techniques class (Matt Henning, Dustin Bennett, Brian Jordan and Heather West) will join the ensemble to perform on two pieces.

Oliver said that most students take the class as part of the education sequence preparing them to teach in public schools. "This concert should give them good firsthand experience in what it is like to perform as percussionists," he added.