West Virginia University music faculty member Keith Jackson and guest artist John Olsson will present a trombone recital at the WVU Creative Arts Center on Monday, March 28.

The concert begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Recital Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public. The program will feature music for one, two or more trombones, including music by Eric Ewazen, Pittsburgh composer Wes Ward, Nick Woud, Howard Buss and others.

Olsson will be assisted by pianist Lya Cartwright and the group Osteology.

Jackson teaches trombone, euphonium, jazz arranging and chamber music at WVU . Currently he is lead trombonist with the U.S. Air Jazz Orchestra, a traditional Big Band that performs throughout the United States and Europe. He also performs with the Mountain State Brass Quintet.

Olsson is artist-in-residence at Kent States Stark Campus and is instructor of trombone/euphonium at Mount Union College and Youngstown State Universitys Dana School of Music. He holds a bachelors degree in music education from Youngstown State and a master of fine arts degree in trombone orchestral performance from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a featured soloist with the Sounds of Sousa Band and is currently a member of the Canton and Wheeling Symphony Orchestras; the Jazz Heritage Orchestra, the Woodlands and Metropolitan Brass Quintets; the Canton Concert Band and First Class Big Band.

He has performed with the Cleveland Light Opera, Cleveland Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, the River City Brass Band of Pittsburgh, and the Akron, Youngstown and Westmoreland Symphony Orchestras, among other groups.

He has also performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and with such notables as Slide Hampton, Tommy Harrell, Jerry Lewis, Keith Lockhart, Maureen McGovern, Michael Martin Murphy, Jim Nabors, Doc Severenson, The Temptations, Toni Tennille, Barry Tuckwell and Frankie Valli, among others.

For more information about the concert, contact the College of Creative Arts at 293-4841 ext. 3108.