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October 2016
Fall for Dance North – Performance 1
with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago STEVE REICH Drumming (movement: Jiří Kylián's "Falling Angels") Click here for more info.
Find out more »Ear Taxi Festival – Harris Theater
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…
Find out more »Ear Taxi Festival – Blowout Party!
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.
Find out more »Yellow Barn Residency
We are spending two weeks in beautiful Putney, VT composing music for a concert presentation centered around the classic children's film, Paddle to the Sea, premiering in 2017. Most of this residency is not open to the public, but we will offer a preview performance of the work in progress at the end of the residency. Click here for more info.
Find out more »November 2016
Yellow Barn – Preview Performance: Paddle to the Sea
This preview performance of our new project, Paddle to the Sea, happens at the culmination of our two week creative residency at Yellow Barn. Paddle to the Sea tells the story of a Native Canadian boy who carves a wooden figure called Paddle-to-the-Sea and sets him on a journey through all five Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and finally to the Atlantic Ocean. The story underscores the geographic, economic, and cultural connections formed by our shared waterways, and asks us to…
Find out more »Chicago Humanities Festival
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…
Find out more »Percussive Arts Society International Convention
Focus Day Evening Performance GERARD GRISEY Le Noir de l'Etoile Click here for more info.
Find out more »Peak Performances – Montclair State University – 1
We perform a 4-night run of a new production created by the multi-media art house Cryptic. "See You Later" PETER GARLAND Apple Blossom GAVIN BRYARS The Other Side of the River (world premiere)* DAVID T. LITTLE Haunt of Last Nightfall** Click here for more info. *Commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University and The University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center for Third Coast Percussion **Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion
Find out more »Peak Performances – Montclair State University – 2
We perform a 4-night run of a new production created by the multi-media art house Cryptic. "See You Later" PETER GARLAND Apple Blossom GAVIN BRYARS The Other Side of the River (world premiere)* DAVID T. LITTLE Haunt of Last Nightfall** Click here for more info. *Commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University and The University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center for Third Coast Percussion **Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion
Find out more »Peak Performances – Montclair State University – 3
We perform a 4-night run of a new production created by the multi-media art house Cryptic. "See You Later" PETER GARLAND Apple Blossom GAVIN BRYARS The Other Side of the River (world premiere)* DAVID T. LITTLE Haunt of Last Nightfall** Click here for more info. *Commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University and The University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center for Third Coast Percussion **Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion
Find out more »Peak Performances – Montclair State University – 4
We perform a 4-night run of a new production created by the multi-media art house Cryptic. "See You Later" PETER GARLAND Apple Blossom GAVIN BRYARS The Other Side of the River (world premiere)* DAVID T. LITTLE Haunt of Last Nightfall** Click here for more info. *Commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University and The University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center for Third Coast Percussion **Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion
Find out more »February 2017
University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
with special guest Rachel Calloway, mezzo soprano CHRISTOPHER CERRONE Goldbeater's Skin* GYÖRGY LIGETI Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Reaction Yield PETER MARTIN Bend Click here for more info. *- World Premiere Goldbeater’s Skin was commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting and the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Third Coast Percussion’s Cerrone/Ligeti Project is made possible by generous support from the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
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