Past Events

TCP presents Perpetulum: a recital program that has something for everyone. The ensemble reinvents the classical music experience with music that is as inviting as it is unexpected. With repertoire ranging from living legend Philip Glass to contemporary music master Augusta Read Thomas to pop polymath Devonté Hynes (AKA Blood Orange), live camera projections and video art, and instruments from around the world, this is an evening of music that will thrill both first time concert-goers and contemporary music super fans alike. Perpetulum DANNY ELFMAN…

TCP will present the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Asheville-based electro-acoustic artist Bana Haffar. Program ROBERT DILLON Ordering-instincts AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Resounding Earth, Mvt. II: Prayer MARK APPLEBAUM Aphasia BANA HAFFAR Shed *world premiere* Click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

Third Coast Percussion (TCP) brings an immersive concert experience of exciting new works for percussion to the Gallery. Although Devonté Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange) is best known as a performer and producer in the R&B and pop-music spheres, he also wrote Perfectly Voiceless and two other classical and minimalist-inspired compositions for the ensemble, which are featured on TCP’s latest album, Fields. Indie-pop star Ryan Lott (a.k.a. Son Lux) composed Quartered for TCP, calling on the performers to surround the audience and constantly stretch and bend…

TCP presents Perpetulum: a recital program that has something for everyone. The ensemble reinvents the classical music experience with music that is as inviting as it is unexpected. With repertoire ranging from living legend Philip Glass to contemporary music master Augusta Read Thomas to pop polymath Devonté Hynes (AKA Blood Orange), live camera projections and video art, and instruments from around the world, this is an evening of music that will thrill both first time concert-goers and contemporary music super fans alike. Perpetulum DANNY ELFMAN Percussion…

Accompanying the Oscar®-nominated film Paddle to the Sea live, Third Coast Percussion interweaves original compositions with water-inspired works to create a piece both spirited and serene. Paddle to the Sea THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Paddle to the Sea PHILIP GLASS Aguas da Amazonia (arr. by Third Coast Percussion) JACOB DRUCKMAN Reflections on the Nature of Water TRADITIONAL Chigwaya (arr. by Musekiwa Chingodza) Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. This project is supported by the Paul M. Angell Family…

Third Coast Percussion is honored to be the headlining act at the Boulanger Initiative's second annual WoCo Fest. In their second annual celebration of International Women’s Day, the Boulanger Initiative presents WoCo Festival 2020 at Big Bear Cafe and All Souls Church on March 8th, 2020, with the theme of local action and grassroots. The one-day festival will feature numerous composers, ensembles, and artists doing ground-breaking work towards gender equity in classical music, and the daytime festivities will highlight local…

Half of the renowned guitar duo The Assad Brothers, Sérgio Assad joins his daughter, pianist and composer, Clarice Assad, one of the most widely performed Brazilian concert music composers of her generation, and the Grammy-winning percussion ensemble and Stave Sessions alum Third Coast Percussion for a unique and fascinating pan-cultural journey. This concert will explore the universal symbolic archetypes that appear in stories, legends, and myths throughout the world—great floods, creation, paradise, apocalypses—as well as characters that appear in stories across cultures. With Archetypes, the…