The W.D. Packard Concert Band will play the music of Spain at its next concert.

Guest conductor will be Benjamin Lorenzo, an associate professor of music and the director of bands at Kent State University’s Glauser School of Music. He conducts the Kent Wind Ensemble, teaches conducting, and provides leadership for university bands.

Lorenzo, a native of Cuba, earned a bachelor’s degree in trombone performance from Florida International University and his master’s and doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin.

Passionate about wind bands in Latin America, Lorenzo has worked with musicians in Mexico, Panama, Peru, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. He also conducted bands in Kuala Lumpur and was a clinician for the Malaysian Band Directors Association Conducting Workshop.

The program will include Victoriano Valencia’s “Paso Doble La Municipal,” Astor Piazzolla’s “Street Tango” and “Oblivion,” Manuel Palau’s “Coplas de mi tierra,” Michele Fernandez’s “La Fiera Asturiana,” Aguirre Agustin Lara’s “Solamente Una Vez,” S. Lope’s Concert Paso Double: “Gerona,” Pablo Luna’s “La Picara Molinera,” Adam Gorb’s “A Little Tango Music,” Soutullo y Vert’s “La Leyenda Del Beso” and Jaime Texidor’s Spanish march “Amparito Roca.”

The concert also will include the presentation of the Stephen L. Gage “Love Music” Honors Award, which was created in 2024 in memory of the Packard band’s conductor, who died in 2023.

This year’s recipients are musicians and educators Kathryn Thomas Umble and James Umble.

Kathryn Umble is principal flute with the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Western Reserve and second flute/piccolo with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. She taught for more than 20 years at Youngstown State University.

James Umble is a professor of saxophone at YSU and has appeared as a guest soloist with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C.; the W.D. Packard Concert Band, Firelands Symphony and YSO. He also has performed several times with the Cleveland Orchestra as a guest woodwind performer.

The concert starts at 3 p.m. Sunday at Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. Admission is free, and funding is provided by the W.D. Packard trust.