Bassoonist Lynn Hileman, a member of the West Virginia University music faculty, will present a recital Sunday (Sept. 30) at the Creative Arts Center. She will be joined by pianist Michael Tan and bassoonist Rachael Elliott.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 3 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A). The show will focus on bassoon music of the last 30 yearsa mix of conventional, modern, conceptual and jazz/funk inspired styles.

The program includesSonata for bassoon and pianoby Nancy Galbraith;Duo Sonata for two bassoonsby Sofia Gubaidulina;Fopp for solo bassoonby Dennis DeSantis;legie for bassoon and pianoby Jacques Hétu; andLes Moutons de Panurge for variable ensembleby Frederic Rzewski.

Hileman is an assistant professor of bassoon and music theory, co-director of the WVU Double Reed Ensemble and a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet. She is dedicated to the reinvigoration of concert music through performance of postclassical contemporary and experimental music, orchestral and chamber music, and electronic music and interdisciplinary arts.

Hileman is principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse and New Haven Symphony orchestras; New Music New Haven, June in Buffalo festival and Eastman Musica Nova.

She has degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale University and Eastman School of Music, where she was the 2004 winner of the Andrew G. Bogiages Memorial Prize in Bassoon.

Prior to coming to WVU , she served on the faculties of Hamilton, Hartwick and Houghton colleges; Binghamton University and Hochstein School of Music and Dance.

She is a co-founder and former president of AV, an art gallery and performance space in Rochester, N.Y., that specializes in interdisciplinary and multimedia works. Her current work as a curator at AV aims to blur the distinction between classical and nonclassical genres by presenting concerts that feature contemporary concert music alongside experimental noise, folk or laptop and turntable width=100%-based music. In 2005, she exhibited a solo show of photography and instrumental installation.

Tan is an active accompanist in both the San Francisco Bay area and western New York. Born in Shanghai and raised in San Francisco, he received piano and composition degrees from the Julliard School of Music. He currently lives in Rochester, N.Y., where he is an accompanist at the Eastman School of Music.

Elliott is a freelance musician based in Vermont and a founding member of the chamber ensemble Clogs with whom she has toured the United States and Europe and recorded several critically acclaimed albums.

Elliott studied bassoon with Janet Polk and went on to earn performance degrees at the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music, where she studied with Frank Morelli. She currently teaches at the University of Vermont, Middlebury College and Kinhaven Music School.