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From concert and album reviews to feature articles, Third Coast Percussion is in the news.
We are fortunate to have garnered critical acclaim and recognition for so many of our performances and projects. See for yourself what the buzz is all about by reading what the press has to say! Browse reviews, articles, and much more below.
NPR Music’s 100 Best Songs of 2018
January 7, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
We are thrilled that "Madeira River" from Paddle to the Sea was listed at #17 on NPR's 100 Best Songs of 2018! This listing includes music of all genres. Many thanks to NPR Music! See our listing and the rest of the honorees here.
The ArtsDesk: Best of 2018
, by Third Coast Percussion
Many thanks to Graham Rickson from The Arts Desk for listing Paddle to the Sea in the Best of 2018: Classical Albums! "Third Coast Percussion’s collectively composed Paddle to the Sea (Cedille), based on an iconic Canadian children’s book tracing a toy canoe’s journey downstream, is a mesmerising collage of bewitching sounds." See the original article and full listing here.
Second Inversion: Top 10 Albums of 2018
, by Third Coast Percussion
Many thanks to Second Inversion for listing Paddle to the Sea in their Top 10 Albums of 2018! We loved working with this fantastic classical music organization when we visited Seattle in January 2018. Second Inversion also presented the video premiere of Paddle to the Sea, which they graciously included in their 2018 Year in Review. Thank you to everyone at Second Inversion and their host, 98.1 KING FM in Seattle! Check out the video here, and the full Top 10 listing here.
The Wallis Presents Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Third Coast Percussion
December 17, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
December 11, 2018 by BWW News Desk Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the highly anticipated West Coast premiere of excerpts from the first collaboration between the acclaimed Chicago-based company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, considered a major force in contemporary dance, and Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion with three performances on Thursday, January 10 through Saturday, January 12, 2019, at 7:30 pm. The new works, both by Los Angeles choreographers, include "For All Its Fury" by YouTube sensation Emma Portner, who gained international attention for her video and tour choreography for Justin Bieber, and "Everything Must Go," by Teddy Forance, whose work has been featured on the hit television show "So You Think You Can Dance." Inspired by the principal of sustainability and loosely intertwined, the works feature a powerful score by British singer/songwriter/composer Devonté Hynes, also known as Blood Orange, that will be performed live on stage…
BLAA musical director Mauricio Peña: Music for the masses
, by Third Coast Percussion
We are very excited to perform in Bogotá, Columbia, in 2019! We'll perform at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (BLAA), where music director Mauricio Peña is working "to make music affordable and go beyond the classical." Check out this profile of Peña from The Bogotá Post. December 13, 2018 by Franziska Bujara Mauricio Peña, the musical director of the BLAA, tells us about how they work to make music affordable and go beyond the classical. The Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango celebrated its 60th birthday this year. As well as a library housing two million books, the huge space in the Candelaria is home to a popular concert hall which was built a few years later. We caught up with musical director Mauricio Peña to find out more about the story of this extraordinary space. He starts by explaining that their mission is to preserve and promote all Colombian music, which is not…
Philip Glass review: World premiere of joyous ‘Perpetulum’
November 12, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
November 10, 2018 by Howard Reich "...virtuosity and extroverted spirit..." "...Glass wrote the piece so meticulously – and TCP articulated it so crisply – that every note, phrase and line rang out lucidly." "A sense of joy pervaded all this music, thanks to the intricately interlocking figures Glass wrote and TCP’s fastidious execution of them." The listeners who packed Francis W. Parker School’s auditorium on Friday evening encountered Philip Glass in three guises: pianist, composer and raconteur. Two of them were quite appealing. Glass, 81, came at the invitation of the Chicago Humanities Festival and Third Coast Percussion, a Chicago ensemble that commissioned the composer to do something he’d never done before: write a stand-alone work for percussion quartet. The prospect of hearing a world premiere of a potentially significant opus by Glass, who next month will pick up a Kennedy Center Honor, explains why the event long had been…
Third Coast Percussion tackle a Philip Glass commission—and the ‘great composer’ problem
, by Third Coast Percussion
November 7, 2018 by Kerry O'Brien Many, many thanks to Kerry O'Brien for this wonderful feature article about our newest commission: Perpetulum, Philip Glass's first-ever work for percussion ensemble. We had a fantastic world premiere on November 9 at the Chicago Humanities Festival and can't wait to take Perpetulum on the road. Read excerpts from Kerry's insightful feature here, or read the whole article to learn more about Philip, the history of minimalist music, our own commissioning process, and how Perpetulum came to be. Thanks again to Kerry and the Chicago Reader! Philip Glass arrives in town this Friday to appear as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, but he's no stranger to the city. He first came here in 1952 to begin his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago at the prodigious age of 15. He remembers sitting outside jazz clubs like the Beehive in Hyde Park, too young to be admitted, listening to bebop waft…
Philip Glass and Third Coast Percussion launch a world premiere for Humanities Fest
November 6, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
November 6, 2018 by Howard Reich Come Friday night, Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion will make a bit of music history. For as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival,the unconventional quartet will play the world premiere of Philip Glass’ “Perpetulum,” which the ensemble commissioned. Not that it’s easy to get a composer of Glass’ stature to write music for you. “We kind of never dreamed he would actually say yes,” explains TCP ensemble member and executive director David Skidmore. “We hoped he would, of course.” Why Glass? “One of the really important artistic missions for our organization is commissioning iconic composers – composers who are in the history books already and still writing music,” explains Skidmore. “Because no one asked Bartok to write a percussion quartet, no one asked Stravinsky to write a percussion quartet, no one asked Shostakovich to write a percussion quartet. “If we don’t ask them,” adds Skidmore,…
OU Wind Symphony to collaborate with Grammy Award-winning percussion ensemble
October 30, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
October 28, 2018 by Sydney Walters Ohio University is known for connecting its students to world-renowned groups and individuals, and the School of Music is next in line to provide such an opportunity. On Tuesday, the Ohio University Wind Symphony with be performing a concert with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble, Third Coast Percussion. Third Coast Percussion is a quartet of percussionists from Chicago that also serves as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. “We bring excellent performances of percussion music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the country and around the world,” David Skidmore, the executive director of Third Coast Percussion and an ensemble member, said in an email. Skidmore said he hopes the ensemble shows students’ similar exciting performances to those he experienced when he was a student listening to professionals. “It was always thrilling when professional musicians were brought to campus so…
New York Times: 10 Dance Performances to See This Weekend
October 22, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
October 18, 2018 by Gia Kourlas Thanks to the New York Times for including our performances with Seán Curran Company in "10 Dance Performances to See This Weekend"! We are looking forward to performing at BAM's Next Wave Festival, October 24-27 at 7:30pm. If you're in NYC, stop by and say hello! SEAN CURRAN COMPANY AND THIRD COAST PERCUSSION at BAM Harvey Theater (Oct 24-27, 7:30 p.m.). Curran celebrates his company’s 20th anniversary with live music by Third Coast Percussion and, naturally, some dances. Along with two early works, “Abstract Concrete” (2000) and “Quadrabox Redux” (2001), the choreographer unveils the New York premiere of “Everywhere All the Time.” Featuring a set by the landscape architect Diana Balmori, who died in 2016, and percussion music by the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, “Everywhere” promises to be lively: Curran, a former member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, started out as a traditional Irish step dancer. 718-636-4100, bam.org…
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