8:35 a.m., July 19, 2010----The University of Delaware Department of Music will present a pair of concerts in early August.

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A jazz vibe concert will be held at 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 6, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building, and a ragtime concert will be held at 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 7, in Puglisi Orchestra Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

Tickets for each concert are $5 -- cash or check only -- and will be available only at the door.

The Aug. 6 jazz vibe concert will feature performances by David Friedman and Tony Miceli, and also students who participate in a workshop led by those renowned artists. The workshop will meet Aug. 1-6 at UD.

The Aug. 7 ragtime concert will feature world-renowned xylophonist Bob Becker, UD faculty member Harvey Price and members of the 10th annual Bob Becker Ragtime Xylophone Institute to be held Aug. 2-7 at UD. Participants in the institute travel from all over the world to work on the art of ragtime xylophone interpretation and improvisation.

David Friedman is an internationally renowned vibraphonist, marimbist, composer and jazz educator who has his own musical message, born of diverse musical influences. He has performed and recorded with such varied musical personalities as Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Berio, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter and Yoko Ono.

Friedman also has been heard either live or on recordings with, among others, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Johnny Griffin, Jane Ira Bloom, Ron Carter and John Scofield. His compositions are featured on Chet Baker's award winning Enja release, Peace, with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Joe Chambers. Friedman is also the featured soloist on this recording.

Tony Miceli received a bachelor's degree in percussion from the University of the Arts in 1982 and is a renowned performer and teacher who counts Milt Jackson as his favorite vibe player. He has performed throughout Europe and locally is a leader or sideman in countless jazz clubs and concert halls including the Kimmel Center and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Miceli has performed with Dave Liebman, Ken Peplowski, John Blake, John Swana, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Slagle and others. He conducts master classes at the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music and is on the faculty at the University of the Arts and Rowan University. In addition, he serves as a consultant to music and arts organizations.

Bob Becker is considered to be one of the world's premier virtuoso performers on the xylophone and marimba. He is also a founding member of the percussion ensemble Nexus.

Becker's performing experience spans nearly all of the musical disciplines where percussion is found. He has been percussionist for the Marlboro Music Festival and timpanist with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under Pablo Casals. For several years he was percussionist with the Paul Winter Consort, and he has performed and recorded with Gil Evans, Steve Gadd, Paul Horn and Chuck Mangione.

As a member of Nexus he has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, and has received the Toronto Arts Award and the Banff Centre for the Arts National Award.