DePaul University’s School of Music will host a Composition Faculty Recital featuring the world premiere of composer Jeffrey Kowalkowski’s “Concerto for Two Oboes” on Oct. 27. Also on the program are “Three Quarter Tone Pieces” by Charles Ives and “Three Quarter Tone Pieces,” by Kowalkowski. Double-reed virtuosi Robbie Hunsinger and Kyle Bruckman will perform, with chamber accompaniment. The free concert begins at 8 p.m. in the DePaul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave., on the university’s Lincoln Park Campus.

The two oboes in the concerto will be joined by a small chamber group consisting of violin, viola, cello, trumpet and electric guitar. Kowalkowski will conduct and peform the “Quarter Tone” pieces, which are scored for two pianos. A member of DePaul’s School of Music faculty, Kowalkowski is a composer who has focused primarily on collaborative forms of composition for the past several years. He is artistic director of the Milkwood Foundation (www.milkwood.org), a not-for-profit sound art production company, which he founded in 1998.

His opera collaboration, “Bosch Tapped the Gas Pedal and the Caprice Moved Forward,” premiered in Hamburg, Germany, in 1996 and was released on CD by No Harm Done Digital Media and Publishing, New York, in 2000. With DePaul alumna and percussionist Carrie Biolo, he has released three CDs under the name Jack the Dog. His music has been performed by ensembles in the Unites States and Western Europe. In addition to his work with DePaul, he has also taught at the Experimental Sound Studio and The School of the Art Institute.

For more information about this concert and other DePaul School of Music performances, call 773/325-7664.