of UMF students, community members and local high school students, will perform its fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, in Nordica Auditorium at University of Maine at Farmington’s Merrill Hall.

Guest musicians from two additional Maine schools will be joining this year’s performance. The Colby College Jazz Ensemble, a top-notch 17-piece big band under the direction of Eric Thomas, will be opening the concert with a selection of traditional and contemporary jazz arrangements. The Bowdoin College Brass Quintet, which includes UMF Band director Anita Jerosch on trombone, will be soloists in “Shadowcatcher” by Eric Ewazen. This concerto for brass instruments and band was inspired by Edward Curtis’s photographs of American Indians.

For the rest of the program, Jerosch will be leading the band in Morton Gould’s “American Salute;” James Kirby’s “Garden of the Gods,” with early childhood education major Janelle Thuotte playing Native American flute and several seasonal holiday songs.

Jerosch, a versatile bass trombonist and euphonium player, is a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and directs the Edith Jones Project—a modern, big band jazz group. She has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Maine State Music Theater and has played for Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Barry Manilow and The Manhattan Transfer and performed at both inaugural balls for President Clinton.

Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance and are priced at $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and are free to UMF students with University I.D. For more information, please contact the UMF Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry at 207-778- 7072.