Jerry Tachoir, jazz vibraphone and marimba performer, will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in UALR’s Fine Arts Building, sponsored by the UALR Department of Music and hosted by Charles Law, director of percussion studies.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Tachoir, a native of McKeesport, Pa., has performed at jazz festivals and concert halls and, as an artist and clinician for the Ludwig-Musser division of Conn-Selmer, presented jazz improvisation clinics and mallet master classes at colleges and universities in North America and Europe.

A grammy nominated artist, Tachoir has numerous recordings released with his band, the Group Tachoir, and is the author of “A Contemporary Mallet Method: An Approach to the Vibraphone and Marimba,” published through Riohcat Music.