We had an incredible 2014!  The members of TCP share some personal thoughts about the past year and what they are excited for in 2015 by each answering the following three questions:

1) What is your favorite funny TCP moment from the past year?

2) What is one musical moment that was a highlight for you of 2014?

3) What are you looking forward to doing with TCP in 2015?

Enjoy and we hope to see you in 2015!

DAVID:

1) What is your favorite funny TCP moment from the past year?

Definitely when we played Credo in US at U Chicago and the State Farm commercial came on. It’s sort of an inside joke, but TCP bears a special enmity towards State Farm  thanks to a nefarious incident involving Sean, a Honda CRV, State Farm, and the South Bend Police Department.

 

2) What is one musical moment that was a highlight for you of 2014?

Premiering Glenn Kotche’s Wild Sound felt like a big artistic achievement for us. This was by far the biggest project we’ve tackled – TCP collaborated with stage director Leslie Danzig, professor Jay Brockman and a team of engineers at the University of Notre Dame who designed instruments for us, lighting designer Sarah Prince, video artist Xuan, and audio and video engineers Dan Nichols and Pat Burns to create a multimedia performance project that we’re incredibly proud of. My wife also thought it was cool that I did a drumset duo with a rock drummer 🙂 

 

 

3) What are you looking forward to doing with TCP in 2015?

Two new pieces by Augusta Read Thomas, one of our favorite composers and a truly inspirational artist and collaborative partner. The first piece, Selene, is for TCP and string quartet, and we’re premiering the piece with the JACK Quartet at Miller Theatre in NYC in March. The second new piece hasn’t been announced yet, but will be a part of a REALLY AWESOME performance in Chicago, this summer!

PETER:

1) What is your favorite funny TCP moment from the past year?

Accidentally walking off with another percussionists gear from the same show at Le Poisson Rouge, dealing with that, then realizing that someone else walked off with our audio interface adapter, then dealing with that a couple of hours before a concert.   It becomes more humorous now that we are further away from it.  I’m not sure how funny it was at the time, but it was definitely memorable.

2) What is one musical moment that was a highlight for you of 2014?

seeing the WAVES project realized, first at Notre Dame but then being able to take it on the road to Colorado.

 

 

3) What are you looking forward to doing with TCP in 2015?

I’m really excited to be performing in Seattle with Third Coast for the first time.  It’s a great City with an amazing arts scene, and I’m really thrilled to bring our program to Town Hall there.

ROB:

1) What is your favorite funny TCP moment from the past year?

The Naperville High School Percussion Ensemble parodying our press photo as part of a promotion for their Drumshow 2014.

 

 

2) What is one musical moment that was a highlight for you of 2014?

Playing at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society International Convention).  It was a long time since we played there and it was a great opportunity to catch up our percussion community on what we’ve been doing.  Just felt great!

3) What are you looking forward to doing with TCP in 2015?

I’m immensely looking forward to our “In C” Project to celebrate Terry Riley’s 80th birthday.  It’ll be a great to bring together musicians of different ages and backgrounds to perform together in our hometown.

SEAN:

1) What is your favorite funny TCP moment from the past year?

Spending the night at Heathrow Airport with Dave…not so funny then, but definitely a great story.  Except now I seem to permanently be on their spam e-mail list… 

2) What is one musical moment that was a highlight for you of 2014?

Performing with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago was a real artistic highlight for me. TCP performed Reich’s Drumming, part 1 with the modern dance company, and Hubbard Street’s extraordinary level of performance quality and dedication to their art form was a huge inspiration.

 

 

3) What are you looking forward to doing with TCP in 2015?

I can’t wait to see what new works grow out of our collaboration with composers involved in our Emerging Composers Partnership.  Can’t wait to see what Jonathan, Danny, and Katie come up with in our studio!

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