There’s more to being a member of the Iowa State music faculty than just teaching lessons.

Just ask Iowa State cello professor George Work, who finds time to perform solo concerts and tour with the Ames Piano Quartet in addition to his busy teaching schedule.

“If you’re a performer and dedicated to performing, you play as often as you can,” Work said.

And Work is happy to play as often as he can.

He said he would do more than one solo concert a year if he thought Iowa State needed it, but for now, he believes one concert a year is sufficient.

“If I played more at Iowa State, I would saturate [the audience] and people would stop coming,” Work said.

For the concerts he does play, Work spends a considerable amount of time in preparation, but not every piece on the program gets equal attention.

Different levels of rhythmic and intonation difficulties require varied amounts of practice time, but some pieces need less attention because they have been rehearsed in previous years.

“Most of the time, I’m playing pieces I learned or performed at another time in my life,” Work said.

The same holds true for organ professor Lynn Zeigler, who has had opportunities to perform pieces from her concert Friday night in venues all around the world.

“I did some of these pieces in Denmark and the Netherlands in 1997,” Zeigler said.

Another reason Zeigler is so well accustomed to the music scheduled for her Friday night recital is that she has already recorded many of the pieces on her third album titled, “Notes From Iowa.”

Scheduled for release in 1999, the album features Zeigler on organ and fellow music faculty members Elizabeth Sadilek playing flute and Kevin Schilling on oboe.

“Elizabeth is featured on one piece, and Kevin is featured on two of the pieces,” Zeigler noted.

Although Zeigler has been known to concentrate on music from the baroque period, she said this concert will be far from baroque.

“All of the music on the program is 20th century American music,” Zeigler said.

Zeigler’s organ performance will be held tonight at 7:30, and Work’s performance will be held Sunday night at 7:30, both in Recital Hall at Music Hall.

The concerts are free to the public.