FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington will present a full-length evening of creative exploration entitled “A Night of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry,” featuring critically-acclaimed jazz pianist Angelica Sanchez. This free public event will take place at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Nordica Auditorium, in UMF’s Merrill Hall.

Included will be performances with Gustavo Aguilar, UMF assistant professor of experimental performance, the UMF Experimental Arts Ensemble and members of the UMF Language of Performance class. The evening will also include a sound/visual installation featuring “Red Medicine” and a live exposition of the “Identity Project” presented by members of the UMF First-Year Seminar on Art and Social Change.

The evening presentation will culminate Sanchez’s two-day residency at UMF during which she will be working closely with students with UMF’s Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry.

Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Ariz. She moved to New York in 1995 and has since played with Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Trevor Dunn, Mark Dresser, Ed Schuller, Judy Silvano, Greg Tardy, Reggie Nicholson, George Schuller, Jeff Williams, Daniel Carter, Mike Sarin, Tony Moreno, Scott Maclemore, Ben Monder and many more. Sanchez leads her own quartet featuring Tony Malaby, Drew Gress and Tom Rainey. Her debut recording “Mirror Me” was chosen as one of the Best New Releases for 2003 in “All About Jazz” and made the top 10 “JazzTimes Critics’ Picks” list 2003.