Recent Appearances

2009-2010 Season

Sunday Salon Concert

February 14, 2010

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.

Eastman School of Music

February 7, 2010

Concert / Master Class
Rochester, NY

Featuring the music of Cage, Manoury, Takemitsu, and Muhly

Dickinson College, Guest Artists Series

February 6, 2010

Rubendall Recital Hall
The Weiss Center
Carlisle, PA

7 p.m.

Featuring the music of Cage, Manoury, Takemitsu, and Muhly

University of St. Francis Guest Artist Series

January 31, 2010

Harold and Margaret Moser
Performing Arts Center
Joliet, IL

3 p.m.

Featuring the music of Cage, Manoury, Takemitsu, and Muhly

The Midwest Clinic - An International Band and Orchestra Conferance

December 18, 2009

McCormick Place West
2301 S. Indiana Avenue
Chicago, IL 60616

4 p.m.

Third Coast Percussion presents a clinic that examines unconducted literature for the intermediate Percussion Ensemble. Music of Reich, Harrison, and more.

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Alone / Aligned / Opposed

December 15, 2009

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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.

Lake Forest Lyrica

September 13, 2009

3:00 pm
Lake Forest College
Holt Memorial Chapel
555 N Sheridan Rd
Lake Forest, IL
$15/$5

Featuring music of Nico Muhly, Lukas Ligeti, John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, Tobias Brostrom, David Skidmore and Owen Clayton Condon.

Residency at Taliesin Preservation, Frank Lloyd Wright Institute Spring Green, WI

September 8 - 11, 2009

Performance, “The Architecture of Music,” Friday, Sept 11 at 7:30 at the Hillside Theater, featuring works by Iannis Xenakis, Philippe Manoury, Toru Takemitsu and Paul Lansky. Pre-concert talk w/ Sidney Robinson, Architecture Scholar

2008-2009 Season

Rush Hour Concerts at St James Cathedral

August 25, 2009

Season Finale
65 E Huron St
5:15 reception
5:45 concert
FREE

Featuring the premiere of David Skidmore’s “Fanfare for a New Audience,” as well as music by Owen Clayton Condon, Dennis DeSantis, and Christopher Deane.

Dusk Variations: A Chamber Series

June 15, 2009

Presented by the Chicago Cultural Center
Pritzker Pavilion
Millennium park
Chicago, IL

"The Inevitable Direction" at the Chopin Theatre

April 7, 2009

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.

Roundtop Music Festival

March 14, 2009

Showcase Concert
Roundtop, TX

University of Texas - Austin

March 10 - 12, 2009

Residency
Presented by Tom Burritt

Texas Day of Percussion

March 6, 2009

Tarleton State University
Tarleton, TX

Texas A&M University - Commerce

March 4, 2009

Showcase Concert
Commerce, TX

University of North Texas

February 27, 2009

Showcase Concert
Denton, TX

Tennessee Tech University

February 21, 2009

Showcase Concert
Cookeville, TN

University of Kentucky

February 18, 2009

Masterclass / Showcase Concert
Lexington, KY

Southeast Missouri State University

February 17, 2009

Masterclass / Showcase Concert
Cape Girardeau, MO

University of Illinois

February 13, 2009

Masterclass / Showcase Concert
Urbana-Champaign, IL

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

January 4, 2009

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.

Third Coast Percussion and Sonic Inertia at Sherwood Conservatory

January 3, 2009

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.

"Minimum and Maximum" at Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University

January 2, 2009

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.

Season Preview: Classical Mondays at the Chicago Cultural Center

January 1, 2009

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