The Buffalo State Wind Ensemble will perform the world premiere of a special arrangement of a work by Karl Boelter, featuring Jacek Muzyk, who is the principal horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Rick Fleming, associate professor of music and director of bands, will conduct the concert, which takes place Wednesday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall.

“We will also present works by Strauss, which are very tonal,” said Fleming. “In fact, the audience will leave humming Strauss’s melodies. Boelter’s work, on the other hand,  is mysterious and contemporary, with extended chords and some dissonance. Listeners will have their ears stretched a little.”

Boelter’s work, Where the Broad Ocean Leans against the Land, is an arrangement of one movement from a three-movement orchestral tone poem for solo horn, Images from Goldsmith. Fleming asked Karl Boelter, director of the school of music at SUNY Fredonia,  to adapt it for a wind ensemble.

Muzyk, a native of Poland whose last name means “musician,” has performed throughout Europe and the United States. He was chosen as the principal horn for Krystian Zimerman's Polish Festival Orchestra, a select group of Poland's finest musicians. Their 1999 recording, Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, received a Grammy award.

Full-time students with ID will be admitted free of charge. General admission is $10.