Calling all flutes! Tonight some of the best flute players in the Ames area will be performing a concert dedicated to their art, and they are giving anyone with the interest and ability to play the flute the chance to join them on stage for one song.

Tonight the Iowa State Music Department will be sponsoring a concert by the 17-member ISU/Ames Flute Choir. The concert, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Music Building, will feature the members of the group playing en masse and in smaller groups, said Elizabeth Sadilek, the group’s director and assistant professor of music at Iowa State.

The performance will include pieces by a diverse selection of artists who have written pieces specifically for flute ensembles. The first piece of the evening will be “Laudate Dominum in Tynpanis,” a G.P. da Palestrina piece arranged Evan Tonsing, which will be performed in an antiphonal style.

It will feature members of the group playing at different locations around the auditorium, surrounding the audience with the music.

The evening will also feature the directing debut of members of the ensemble. The piece “Masques” by Anne McGinty will be directed by Vicki Mignogna, and James Christainsen’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Air From the Suite in D” will be directed by Heather Webb.

The Bach piece is also unique in the fact that it is also one in which the audience is invited to participate. Sadilek said that anyone who can play the flute is welcome to join the ensemble on stage for this piece.

The choir as a whole will also be performing C. Hugo Grimm’s “5 Etudes,” “Moderate Solemne-Poco Allegro,” “Andante-Allegro,” “Andante Teneramente” and “Allegro Giocoso.” Pieces performed by the smaller groups coming from the ensemble will be “Kanonische Etuden I from Flotenmusik” by Gunter Bialas, “Musical Snuff Box,” by Anatol Liadoff and arranged by Archie Wade, Jr., and “Flutes En Vacances” by Jacques Casterede.

Student members of the ensemble include Julie Anderson, Robyn Berning, Tracy Brogelman, Amanda Fier, Christine Gordon, Amy Jensen, Sara McPhail, Elizabeth Morse, Mindy Radke, Lisa Solberg, Cathy Thompson and Melissa Welsh. Other community members playing are Gary Lieberman, Dena Maxwell and Ginger Primrose.

The concert is free and open to the public.