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FREE and open to the public This event is not ticketed Third Coast Percussion is ensemble-in-residence at the 2nd annual Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC) ISAAC SCHANKLER - Blindnesses STEVEN SNOWDEN - A Man with a Gun Lives Here CHRIS FISHER-LOCHHEAD - On Tenterhooks (commissioned by Third Coast Percussion) CARL SCHIMMEL - Serving Size 4 Bunnies Click here for more info

TIANGE ZHOU Beginning of Origin KUI DONG Scattered Ladder LEI LIANG Inkscape (Chicago premiere, co-commissioned by the Chinese Fine Arts Society) featuring Daniel Schlosberg, piano and Michael Lewanski, conductor GUO WENJING Parade $15/$20 Buy tickets

7:30 p.m. Third Coast Percussion brings the idea of using a single type of material in performance—a wood table, in the case of Belgian composer Thierry de Mey’s piece, and a drumhead in Donnacha Dennehy’s new work inspired by playing techniques of the Irish bodhrán drum. The ensemble rounds out the program by honoring Steve Reich’s 80th birthday with his iconic Sextet, in celebration of the ensemble's release of an all-Reich album on Cedille Records THIERRY DE MEY Table Music DONNACHA…

Third Coast Percussion presents its interactive WAVES program, exploring the science behind sound, as part of the Logan Center for the Arts Family Saturday Festival. $5 single tickets, $20 families of 5+ Click here for details.

FREE! Here & Now I Featuring music by members of Third Coast Percussion! Peter Martin- BEND Robert Dillon- Ordering-instincts David Skidmore- Take Anything You Want/Torched and Wrecked Click here for more info.   Doors open at 5:00pm Pre-concert conversations at 5:15pm 30-minute concert starts at 5:45pm Broadcast live on 98.7 WFMT and wfmt.com

This performance has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. The amazing Swiss/German EarDrum Duo joins TCP for an evening of European music at Constellation NICOLAUS A. HUBER - Fingercapriccio DIETER MACK - Jonico JOHANNES FISCHER - What is any ocean but a collection of drops? IANNIS XENAKIS - "Peaux" from Pleiades Click here for more info.   Third Coast Percussion's collaboration with Eardrum is supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's International Connections Fund.

with special guests Spektral Quartet Ear Taxi Festival is a city-wide celebration of Chicago's thriving contemporary music scene. THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Reaction Yield (world premiere)* AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Selene (Chicago premiere)** Click here for more info. *Reaction Yield was commissioned by Glenn Prestwich and Sounds of Science **Selene was co-commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center in honor of its 75th Anniversary Season, with generous support from Deborah and Philip Edmundson; and by Miller Theatre at Columbia University; and by Third…

Ear Taxi Festival is a city-wide celebration of Chicago’s thriving contemporary music scene. Featured performers include Mary Stolper, Kuang-Hao Huang, Third Coast Percussion, Spektral Quartet, MAVerick Ensemble, Fonema Consort, and Michael Hall. Program to include works by Nicole Mitchell, Marc Mellits, LJ White, Christopher Jones (World Premiere), Aaron Cassidy (Chicago Premiere), and Marta Ptaszynska. Click here for more info.

Already obsessed with different kinds of time—human time, the “spectral” time of sleep, the compressed cycles of insect noise—French composer Gérard Grisey was bowled over when he heard the percussive and regular emissions of pulsars, the super-dense remnants of stars that have gone super-nova. Third Coast Percussion perform the striking result, Le Noir de l’Etoile, an unforgettable composition for six percussionists and tape with the musicians surrounding the audience. GÉRARD GRISEY Le Noir de l'Etoile with special guests Gregory Beyer…

Whisper(s): Matthew Duvall and guests Click here for more info.