Two guest artists from Kent State University will join the W.D. Packard Concert Band for its next performance.

Ben Lorenzo, an associate professor of music and the director of bands at Kent’s Glauser School of Music, will be the guest conductor. He previously served as associate director of bands and director of athletic bands at the University of Arkansas, where he led the Razorback Marching Band and Wind Symphony. Lorenzo also taught at Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and high schools in Florida and Texas.

Amanda Bekeny will be the featured trumpet soloist on Alexander Goedicke’s “Concert Etude,” Leroy Anderson’s “Trumpeter’s Lullaby” and George Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me.”

Bekeny is a trumpet instructor at Kent State, co-founder of the Olympic Brass Quintet and a member of CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Firelands Symphony Orchestra and Diamond Brass Quintet. She has performed as a substitute member with the Akron Symphony and Cleveland Pops Orchestra.

Other selections on the program include Andrew Boysen Jr.’s “Kirkpatrick Fanfare,” Gershwin’s “Second Prelude,” Malcolm Arnold’s “Siciliano and Rondo” prelude, Victoriano Valencia’s “Huayno” and “Danzon,” Gabriel Musella’s “Don Ricardo,” Allessandro Marcello’s “Concerto in C Minor: III,” Julie Giroux’s “Castaways” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Folk Dances.”

The concert starts at 7 p.m. Sunday at the south lawn bandshell of Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. Admission is free, and funding is provided by the W.D. Packard trust.