Percussion – Upcoming Concerts
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fonema Consort
Thursday, September 30, 2032 @ 10:45pm – 10:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Kelley Sheehan – Eyes On
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Mathew Arrellin – Umbra II
Luis Fernando Amaya – Studies for Bestiario: seis
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Fat Pigeon, with Daniel Robles Lizano
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 2:30pm – 3:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Collective improvisation performance from Fat Pigeon (Emily Beisel, bass clarinet; Luis Fernando Amaya, percussion; Craig Davis Pinson, electric guitar) with visual art from Daniel Robles Lizano.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Zafa Collective
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 3:30pm – 4:15pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Liza Sobel – Five Scenes for String Quartet
Eliza Brown – Figure to Ground
Maria Kaoutzani – jaune doré
George Lewis – Signifying Riffs: Unison for string quartet & percussion
Eliza Brown – Figure to Ground
Maria Kaoutzani – jaune doré
George Lewis – Signifying Riffs: Unison for string quartet & percussion
Free (Free)
Composers Concordance & Austrian Cultural Forum New York: CompCord & Entertaining Science
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Concert combining a short lecture by renowned scientist/facial recognition specialist Christina Pressl, with performances by trumpet soloist Franz Hackl, drummer Jonathan Kane, & the CompCord String Quartet.
Free (Free (RSVP required to attend in person))
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: F-PLUS
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 4:15pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Jessie Montgomery – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion (world premiere)
Liza Sobel – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion
James Budinich – Fractured Matter
Liza Sobel – Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Percussion
James Budinich – Fractured Matter
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: DePaul Ensemble 20+, with members of Ensemble Dal Niente
Friday, October 1, 2032 @ 5:15pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
George Lewis – Connectome (US premiere)
Thurman Barker – Pandemic Fever (world premiere)
Renée Baker – WUNDERKAMMER 3097: BLACKed IMAGINATION
Thurman Barker – Pandemic Fever (world premiere)
Renée Baker – WUNDERKAMMER 3097: BLACKed IMAGINATION
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Garrett Mendelow, percussion/voice
Saturday, October 2, 2032 @ 9:30am – 10:00am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Garrett Mendelow performs Rodrigo Bussad's 2019 work Atlas Vocalis I for percussion, vocalization, & electronics.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Zachary Good & Tonia Ko
Saturday, October 2, 2032 @ 4:00pm – 4:45pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Tonia Ko (bubble wrap) & Zachary Good (clarinets & recorders) present the world premiere of their composition Up High, an Ear Taxi Festival Commission.
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: City Beautiful, featuring Marianne Parker, Michael Hall, & Megan Ihnen
Sunday, October 3, 2032 @ 9:00am – 9:45am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Pierce Gradone – Power Ballade
Steven Snowden – Twenty-Five Million Candles
Dennis Tobenski – Good Bones
Francine Trester – The Daniel Burnham Suite (world premiere)
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Landscapes
Steven Snowden – Twenty-Five Million Candles
Dennis Tobenski – Good Bones
Francine Trester – The Daniel Burnham Suite (world premiere)
Regina Harris Baiocchi – Landscapes
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Peter Ferry, percussion
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 9:45am – 10:30am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Marc Mellits – Zodiac for solo marimba
Marc Mellits – Parkland for solo vibraphone
Marc Mellits – Stick for solo snare drum
Marc Mellits – Parkland for solo vibraphone
Marc Mellits – Stick for solo snare drum
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Crossing Borders Music
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 11:00am – 11:45am (PDT)
Online and in-person
Sabrina CD Jean Louis – La Cité
Jean R. "Rudy" Perrault – Brother Malcolm for cello & piano
Gifrants – Fraternitas! Fraternitas! Dei Patris Nomine for piano quintet
Jean Paul Coffy – New work TBA
Jean R. "Rudy" Perrault – Brother Malcolm for cello & piano
Gifrants – Fraternitas! Fraternitas! Dei Patris Nomine for piano quintet
Jean Paul Coffy – New work TBA
Free (Free)
Ear Taxi Festival Mainstage Concerts: Unsupervised with Chicago Composer's Consortium
Monday, October 4, 2032 @ 11:45am – 12:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Laura Schwendinger – Celestial Bodies (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Kyong Mee Choi – MOMENT
Lawrence Axelrod – Of Wind and Sky
Elizabeth Start – O, Aedicatio; O, Vita (world premiere)
Martha Horst – Quiltage (world premiere)
Free (Free)
Roulette: Experiments in Opera & Restless NYC Present 'Rainbird'
Thursday, October 7, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Improvised arias over loops, original folk songs, & textural spaces are featured in director/librettist Mallory Catlett & composer Aaron Siegel's operatic adaptation of a novel by New Zealand author Janet Frame.
Free (Free ($20-$25 in person))
Our House is On Fire
Thursday, October 7, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Livestreamed concert of world premieres urging immediate action to address the global climate crisis, featuring an interdisciplinary team of composers, poets, performers, & sound designers from across the US.
Free (Free)
Ensemble Dal Niente with Ken Vandermark at Washington University
Friday, October 8, 2032 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Roscoe Mitchell – Last Trane to Clover Five for solo saxophone & ensemble (world premiere)
Nicole Mitchell – Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, & percussion
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble
Wang Lu – After some remarks by CW on his work for harp & clarinet
Anthony Braxton – Composition Nos. 193 + 228 for large ensemble
$15 online | $0-$20 in person
SAM Performs: Timber
Saturday, October 9, 2032 @ 1:00pm – 2:05pm (PDT)
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Math rock meets sound bath in this performance of Timber, Michael Gordon's 65-minute tour-de-force scored for six virtuosic percussionists on tuned 2x4s.
Free
SAM Performs: Timber
Saturday, October 9, 2032 @ 5:00pm – 6:05pm (PDT)
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, United States
Math rock meets sound bath in this performance of Timber, Michael Gordon's 65-minute tour-de-force scored for six virtuosic percussionists on tuned 2x4s.
Free
Wayward Music Series: Skyros Quartet + arx duo – Bows & Mallets
Tuesday, October 12, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works for string quartet & percussion by Michael Laurello & Christopher Dietz, plus works from the 20th & 21st Centuries.
$5-$15 donation
University of Puget Sound: Flowerpot Music Noon Convocation
Wednesday, October 13, 2032 @ 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PDT)
Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Perform a composition by composer Elliot Cole using an unlikely but beautiful percussion instrument – the flowerpot! SOM faculty James Doyle hosts this lively gathering inspired by the annual Make Music Day.
Free (Free (pre-registration & proof of full vaccination required))
MEXAM NW Festival: Conciertos de Musica de Camara
Wednesday, October 13, 2032 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Passing through different musical genres, Trío Guadalevín & the Eleanor Quartet present chamber works from the most important traditional and Latin American repertoire.
Free (Free (registration required to attend in person))