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Acclaimed pianist, composer and drummer Steve Grover performs with his jazz ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Grover, the 1994 winner of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz/BMI Jazz Composers Competition for Blackbird Suite, also garnered recognition as a winner in the 1996 JAZZIZ magazine Percussionists on Fire talent search. In addition to teaching ensembles, drum set and jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, since 1984 Grover has been director and faculty member for the Maine Jazz Camp, a two-week summer program held each summer on the University of Maine at Farmington campus.

As a jazz drummer, Grover has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Tate and Lenny Breau, among many others, and has recorded two CDs, Blackbird Suite and In the G Zone.

The concert is co-sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concerts Committee and the college’s music department.