DeKALB – The Northern Illinois University School of Music will host a concert featuring guest artists Anthony Stoops on double bass and Ching-chu Hu on piano with School of Music faculty member David Maki on piano. The concert will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building located at 400 Lucinda Ave. in DeKalb.

The program will include new and recent works by Hu, Maki and John Allemeier. Three works received their world premieres during the Austin Bass Fest at the University of Texas in September. All of the pieces will be recorded this winter at NIU for commercial release in the spring of 2013.

Stoops has established an international reputation as a leading pedagogue and versatile performer on the double bass. He is an artist/teacher of double bass at the University of Oklahoma School of Music, and his students have won prizes in important competitions and have been placed at both the undergraduate and graduate level at leading schools of music throughout the country.