Composer Gabriela Lena Frank will present a public lecture and piano recital Monday as part of her stay at Kansas University as an artist-in-residence.

The presentation is 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Frank, praised by the Washington Post as a composer of “unself-conscious mastery,” will spend six weeks teaching KU students in group and individual lessons. Her stay will comprise three separate two-week residencies this year and next.

Frank’s compositions, incorporating South American mythology, art, poetry and folk music into Western classical forms, reflect her Peruvian-Jewish heritage and have been heard across North and South America. Frank is also a concert pianist who recently recorded a CD of music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Leslie Bassett. She is featured on a forthcoming CD of her chamber music.