Faculty and guests to perform arrangements of contemporary poets

KALAMAZOO—School of Music jazz studies faculty members Andrew Rathbun, saxophone; Jeremy Siskind, piano; and Keith Hall, drums, will perform with jazz vocalist Christine Correa, composer and pianist Frank Carlberg and bassist Jay Anderson at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, in the Dalton Center Recital Hall.

Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 for seniors and $5 for students, and are available from Miller Auditorium at millerauditorium.com/som or by calling (269) 387-2300 or (800) 228-9858.

About the guest artists

Jay Anderson, professor of jazz bass studies at the Manhattan School of Music, has been featured on over 300 recordings, including work with Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Chaka Khan, Allen Ginsberg and Celine Dion.

Frank Carlberg is the director of jazz studies at New England Conservatory. His latest album release is titled "Big Enigma" and features compositions set to poems by Ken Mikolowski.

Christine Correa is an associate professor of music at Columbia University and a member of the Frank Carlberg Quintet, which is dedicated to performing Carlberg’s settings of 20th and 21st century poets.

For more information about the concert, call (269) 387-4704 or (269) 387-4678, or visit wmich.edu/music.