Catch up on the latest TCP news and behind-the-scenes action on our blog.

Are you looking for program notes from a Third Coast Percussion concert? Interested in learning more about our illustrious interns? Curious about how our Production Manager makes things happen? All of this and more can be found in our semi-regularly updated blog.








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Intern Spotlight: Sammy DeAngelis

Where are you from?  Spring Hill, FL What is one thing about yourself that you want everyone to know?  I guess the one thing people should know is I own

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Intern Spotlight: Luciano Medina

Where are you from? Munster, IN. What is one thing about yourself that you want everyone to know? In my free time, I like to go outside and just walk

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Intern Spotlight: George Warner

Where are you from? Flower Mound, TX What is one thing about yourself that you want everyone to know? As a side hustle, I make 30 second YouTube ads that

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Announcing our 2021/22 Currents Creative Partners!

Congratulations to Suzanne Kite and Machado Mijiga, the composers selected for our 2021/22 Currents Creative Partnership! We will be collaborating with both Kite and Machado to create new works to be premiered

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Intern Spotlight: Ethan Hall

Where are you from? Flower Mound, TX What is one thing about yourself that you want everyone to know? This is my zip code 75028 What are you up to

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Program notes for “Aguas da Amazonia” — September 13, 2022 at the Field Museum

PROGRAM Aguas da Amazonia by Philip Glass (b. 1937) / arr. Third Coast Percussion*“Tiquiê River”“Madeira River”“Xingu River”“Paru River”“Amazon River”“Purus River”“Tapajós River”“Negro River”“Metamorphosis No. 1” Perpetulum by Philip Glass *U.S. and

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Announcing our 2022/23 Currents Creative Partners!

Congratulations to Brian Ellis, Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Florence Anna Maunders, the composers selected for our 2022/23 Currents Creative Partnership! We will be collaborating with Ellis, Vanderveer and Maunders to create new

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Program Notes for “Currents” – June 26, 2022

PROGRAM Matters/Mind by Alexis C. Lamb the season of Big rain (Mbura ya Njahĩ) by Nyokabi Kariũki Wógligleya (Tȟuŋkášila Čečiyelo) by Kite in collaboration with Santee Witt** Intermission Etude 1

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Intern Spotlight: David Kortes

David at his "COVID graduation" -- celebrating at home. Where are you from? Milwaukee, WI. What is one thing about yourself that you'd want everyone to know? I will be

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TCP’s 2020-21 Season Annual Report

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Office Holiday Party: More Info!

Archetypes : Our recent GRAMMY®-nominated album Our collaborative album Archetypes with Sérgio and Clarice Assad has received nominations for a GRAMMY® Award in 3 categories: Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best

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WAVES: Behind the scenes of our new digital education program!

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Program Notes for digital_TCP: “Currents” – June 29, 2021

PROGRAMBulldog by Andrea Venet ...hence the term, well adjusted. by Robert Dillon Narratology by Hunter Ewen the season of Big rain (Mbura ya Njahĩ) by Nyokabi Kariũki R.I.N. by Andys

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Join our STEM+Music Summer Camp: It’s FREE!

"Making Waves" is an informal STEM + Music class in which students learn about the science behind sound, build their own instruments, and compose original music on those instruments. This summer,

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Program Notes for digital_TCP: “Frank Lloyd Wright / Architecture and Music” — June 8, 2021

PROGRAMCommon Patterns in Uncommon Time by David Skidmore (b. 1982)Prelude - Material Study 1Mvt. 1 - EntityMvt. 2 - DesignMvt. 3 - ReposeInterlude - Material Study 2Mvt. 4 - DiversityMvt.

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Thursday, October

24

TCP Fall Benefit

2145 W Walnut St
Chicago, IL United States

TCP Fall Benefit with Twyla Tharp

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Saturday, October

26

Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts

Schaumburg, IL


Monday, November

18

Denison University

Granville, OH