GRAMMY® Award-winning percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion and Pulitzer Prize-finalist composer/performer/electronic musician Jlin join together in a program that explores the evolution of their decade-long partnership. In a collaboration that could have only originated in Chicago, this new evening delivers a fresh sound to the world’s concert halls, as TCP’s contemporary classical training meets Jlin’s visceral and innovative electronic practice. 

A proud native of Gary, Indiana, Jlin’s signature sound is influenced by her origins in the Chicago Footwork scene, but not defined by it. Equally inspired by West Chicago legend RP Boo as Igor Stravinsky and Philip Glass, Miles Davis and Eartha Kitt, Jlin’s complex percussion-driven work has a sophisticated and uniquely polyrhythmic sound of its own. Her collaborations with TCP represent Jlin’s early and pivotal entry points into composing for acoustic ensembles. Their “commandingly elegant” (NYTimes) and creative performances both inspire and converse with Jlin’s genre-busting compositions. 

Audiences will experience Jlin performing the electronic renditions of her compositions alongside acoustic realizations of the pieces performed by TCP. A brand-new work commissioned by 92Y combines the forces of all five musicians performing live together, conjuring an entirely new sonic universe.

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Jlin + Third Coast Percussion: Vernacular

Jlin: Summon, arr. Skidmore
Jlin: Embryo, arr. Dillon
Jlin: Precision of Infinity
Philip Glass: Mishima, arr. Martin
Jlin: Fourth Perspective, arr. Skidmore
Jlin: Grannie’s Cherry Pie, arr. Dillon
Jlin: Carbon 12, arr. Martin
Jlin: Premonition, arr. Connors

– – – Intermission – – –

David Longstreth: Butterfly Dancing Over A Barrel
Mvt. 1 – All Right All Along
Mvt. 2 – What You Call
Mvt. 3 – Drop Down Menu
Mvt. 4 – 21st Twentieth Century
Mvt. 5 – Coda
Jlin: A Dance With My Favorite Opponent
Jlin: Alkebulan, arr. Skidmore
Jlin: Five Perspectives, arr. Martin
Jlin: Fragmentation, arr. Connors
Jlin: Derivative, arr. Dillon

Fragmentation and Premonition were commissioned by The 92nd Street Y, New York, with additional support from the Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc., the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, and the Julian Family Foundation.

Butterfly Dancing Over A Barrel by David Longstreth was commissioned by Third Coast Percussion with support from Carnegie Hall, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, the Julian Family Foundation, and Third Coast Percussion’s New Works Fund.