Chicago Season

2010-2011 Season

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John Cage/ Philippe Manoury

September 18, 2010

Chicago Concert Season - Concert 1

7:30pm

Merit School of Music
Gottlieb Hall
38 South Peoria Street
Chicago IL 60607

$15/$5

Third Coast Percussion opens
their 2010-11 Chicago Concert Season
with masterpieces from two great composers.

John Cage First Construction
John Cage Second Construction
John Cage Third Construction
Philippe Manoury Le Livre des Claviers

To purchase tickets email info@thirdcoastpercussion.com.

This concert has been generously
supported by the French-American
Fund For Contemporary Music,
a program of FACE with major support
from SACEM and BMG Music Publishing.

 

Place Your Body Upon the Gears...

December 14, 2010

Chicago Concert Season - Concert 2

7:30pm

Chopin Theatre
1543 West Division
Chicago, IL

$15/$5

Featuring the premiere of a
new large-scale work by the
"dramatically wild", "rustling,
raunchy, and electic" composer
David T. Little.

Dennis DeSantis Shifty
Bruno Mantovani Moi, Jeu
Third Coast Percussion Improvisation
David T. Little New Work

Snow in June

February 4, 2011

Chicago Concert Season - Concert 3

with Nick Photinos, cellist

8:00pm

Northeastern Illinois University
Auditorium
3701 West Bryn Mawr
Chicago, IL

$15
$10 for NEIU faculty/staff
Free for all students with student ID

Special guest Nick Photinos, cellist
with acclaimed Chicago-based chamber
ensemble eighth blackbird, joins Third
Coast Percussion for the headline concert
of the Northeastern Illinois University Percussion Festival.

David Lang Little Eye
Lou Harrison Song of Quetzecoatl
Clay Condon New Work
John Cage Credo in US
Tan Dun Elegy Snow in June

For tickets go to www.tickets.com
or call (773) 442-4636.

Bells and Whistles

May 24, 2011

Chicago Concert Season - Concert 4

with Tim Munro, flute

7:30pm

Location TBA

$15/$5

Special guest Tim Munro of the
acclaimed Chicago-based chamber
ensemble eighth blackbird, joins
Third Coast Percussion for a concert
featuring the premiere of a new work
by the ground-breaking Australian
phenom Anthony Pateras.

Anthony Pateras New Work
John Cage Quartet
Lou Harrison First Concerto for Flute and Percussion
Bruno Mantovani Un Souffle
George Crumb An Idyll for the Misbegotten

2009-2010 Season

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The Architecture of Music

w/ Sidney Robinson, Architecture Scholar
Ganz Hall
Roosevelt University
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

Pre-concert discussion with
Sidney Robinson: 6:30pm
Concert: 7:30pm
$15/$5
Exploring the connections between architecture and music, with works by Iannis Xenakis, Philippe Manoury, Toru Takemitsu and Paul Lansky.

Alone / Aligned / Opposed

with Lee Keenan, Lighting Designer
Chopin Theater
1543 W. Division St.
Chicago, IL
$15/$5

7:30 p.m.

Musical forces combine and collide in a newly commissioned, large scale work by rising star Matthew Barnson, Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Alejandro Viñao’s Arabesco Infinito, and Fredrik Andersson’s The Lonelyness of Santa Claus, all staged with dramatic lighting at Wicker Park’s historic Chopin Theatre.

Sunday Salon Concert

presented by
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
with Lisa Moore, piano
3:00 p.m. – Chicago Cultural Center
Preston Bradley Hall
78 E Washington St. Chicago
FREE

TCP performs a diverse program including Guo Wenjing’s Parade, John Fitz Rogers’ astoundingly rapid Once Removed and a sneak preview of an upcoming work from composer and rock drummer David T. Little. Finally, “queen of the avant garde piano” Lisa Moore joins Third Coast for Martin Bresnick’s powerful Caprichos Enfaticos.

Descent

co-sponsored by International House
Global Voices Performing Arts Program
with Cliff Colnot, conductor
Greg Beyer and Ross Karre, percussion
7:30 p.m. – International House Assembly Hall at University of Chicago
1414 E. 59th St, Chicago
$10/$5

Third Coast journeys into new sound
worlds with David Skidmore’s Fanfare for a New Audience, Marcos Balter’s dark rooms, and the premiere of a new work by Otto Muller. The program will culminate in Wolfgang Rihm’s explosive and visceral sextet Tutuguri VI, inspired by Artaud’s writings on the Tarahumara indians’ Rite of the Black Sun.

2008-2009 Season

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Season Preview: Classical Mondays at the Chicago Cultural Center

Featuring music from Third Coast’s touring and Chicago seasons, including music by John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, David Skidmore and Lukas Ligeti.

"Minimum and Maximum" at Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

Masters of the modern piano Amy Briggs and Daniel Schlosberg join Third Coast for Reich’s Sextet, Berio’s Linea, Lukas Ligeti’s Pattern Transformation and the premiere of Constellations by Kirsten Broberg.

Third Coast Percussion and Sonic Inertia at Sherwood Conservatory

Third Coast performs David Skidmore’s driving In Contact and Casey Farina’s video score Bitsmoke, and Sonic Inertia performs works featuring the hammer dulcimer.

"New Music in the Gallery" at Packer-Schopf Gallery

Featuring the premiere of new percussion works by members of the Chicago Composers Forum, as well as Phillippe Manoury’s marimba duo from Le Livre des Claviers and Alejandro Vinao’s Estudios de Frontera, featuring internationally renowned marimba soloist She-e Wu.

"The Inevitable Direction" at the Chopin Theatre

Third Coast explores the relationship between modern music and politics, with Rzewski’s Coming Together and To the Earth, Andriessen’s Workers’ Union, David Little’s Speak Softly and the premiere of Ted Hearne’s Thaw.