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Sō Percussion: World Premieres and more!
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Sun, Feb 4, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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As the contemporary musical landscape continues to evolve and thrive, Princeton’s own Sō Percussion operates at the forefront of a diverse international movement to champion forward-thinking composers. On this concert, the Edward T. Cone performers-in-residence focus on the work of four visionary artists who challenge the way we listen and experience sound. With world premieres of works written for Sō by Claire Rousay and Leilehua Lanzilotti (who joins as a performer!), plus important pieces by trailblazers Pauline Oliveros and Pamela Z, Sō will explore various spaces in the Lewis Center for the Arts in a truly immersive concert experience.
Concert begins at the Forum, Lewis Arts Complex and continues at the CoLab and Lee Rehearsal Room.
Program
Claire Rousay – In Places (performed by So Percussion plus Beth Meyers ) (World Premiere)
Pamela Z- 20 Answers (performed by Sō, Leilehua, Beth)
Leilehua Lanzilotti- koʻu inoa (performed by Leilehua)
Pauline Oliveros – Future of Anonymity (performed by Sō)
Leilehua Lanzilotti- sending messages (performed by Sō) (World Premiere)
Program Notes
Sō Percussion presents four pieces which use space, time, ambience, and deep listening to engage the senses. The voluminous Lewis Center for the Arts will provide the setting for the world premiere of Leilahua Lanzilotti’s sending messages, for tuned flowerpots and bells, as well as works by Pauline Oliveros, Pamela Z, and Claire Rousay. Come and walk around the space as we perform in three different rooms, where you will also see and hear marimbas, piano, voice, viola, river rocks, the divination of magic 8-balls, an amplified chair, and much more!
About Sō Percussion
For twenty years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker). They are celebrated by audiences and presenters for a dazzling range of work: for live performances in which “telepathic powers of communication” (The New York Times) bring to life the vibrant percussion repertoire; for an extravagant array of collaborations in classical music, pop, indie rock, contemporary dance, and theater; and for their work in education and community, creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the immense possibility of art in our time.
Recent highlights have included performances at the Elbphilharmonie, Big Ears 2022 – where they performed Amid the Noise, premiered a new work by Angélica Negrón with the Kronos Quartet, and performed their Nonesuch album with Caroline Shaw, Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part – and a return to Carnegie Hall where they performed new collaborations with Nathalie Joachim, and Dominic Shodekeh Talifero. Their Nonesuch recording, “Narrow Sea,” with Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, won the 2022 Grammy for Best Composition. Other albums include A Record Of.. on Brassland Music with Buke and Gase, and an acclaimed version of Julius Eastman’s “Stay On It” on new imprint Sō Percussion Editions. This adds to a catalogue of more than twenty-five albums featuring landmark recordings of works by David Lang, Steve Reich, Steve Mackey, and many more.
In Fall 2023, Sō Percussion performs twice at Carnegie Hall (once with the Kronos Quartet for its 50th Anniversary concert and once in a solo show with friends). This Fall also marks Sō’s tenth year as the Edward T. Cone performers-in-residence at Princeton University. Rooted in the belief that music is an elemental form of human communication, and galvanized by forces for social change in recent years, Sō enthusiastically pursues a range of social and community outreach through their nonprofit organization, including partnerships with local ensembles including Pan in Motion and Castle of Our Skins; their Sō Laboratories concert series; a studio residency program in Brooklyn; and the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, an intensive two- week chamber music seminar for percussionists and composers, hosted on the Princeton University campus.
Sō Percussion is – Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting.
www.sopercussion.com
Musicians
Sō Percussion
Program
Claire Rousay – In Places (performed by So Percussion plus Beth Meyers ) (World Premiere)
Pamela Z- 20 Answers (performed by Sō, Leilehua, Beth)
Leilehua Lanzilotti- koʻu inoa (performed by Leilehua)
Pauline Oliveros – Future of Anonymity (performed by Sō)
Leilehua Lanzilotti- sending messages (performed by Sō) (World Premiere)
Program Notes
Sō Percussion presents four pieces which use space, time, ambience, and deep listening to engage the senses. The voluminous Lewis Center for the Arts will provide the setting for the world premiere of Leilahua Lanzilotti’s sending messages, for tuned flowerpots and bells, as well as works by Pauline Oliveros, Pamela Z, and Claire Rousay. Come and walk around the space as we perform in three different rooms, where you will also see and hear marimbas, piano, voice, viola, river rocks, the divination of magic 8-balls, an amplified chair, and much more!
About Sō Percussion
For twenty years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker). They are celebrated by audiences and presenters for a dazzling range of work: for live performances in which “telepathic powers of communication” (The New York Times) bring to life the vibrant percussion repertoire; for an extravagant array of collaborations in classical music, pop, indie rock, contemporary dance, and theater; and for their work in education and community, creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the immense possibility of art in our time.
Recent highlights have included performances at the Elbphilharmonie, Big Ears 2022 – where they performed Amid the Noise, premiered a new work by Angélica Negrón with the Kronos Quartet, and performed their Nonesuch album with Caroline Shaw, Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part – and a return to Carnegie Hall where they performed new collaborations with Nathalie Joachim, and Dominic Shodekeh Talifero. Their Nonesuch recording, “Narrow Sea,” with Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, won the 2022 Grammy for Best Composition. Other albums include A Record Of.. on Brassland Music with Buke and Gase, and an acclaimed version of Julius Eastman’s “Stay On It” on new imprint Sō Percussion Editions. This adds to a catalogue of more than twenty-five albums featuring landmark recordings of works by David Lang, Steve Reich, Steve Mackey, and many more.
In Fall 2023, Sō Percussion performs twice at Carnegie Hall (once with the Kronos Quartet for its 50th Anniversary concert and once in a solo show with friends). This Fall also marks Sō’s tenth year as the Edward T. Cone performers-in-residence at Princeton University. Rooted in the belief that music is an elemental form of human communication, and galvanized by forces for social change in recent years, Sō enthusiastically pursues a range of social and community outreach through their nonprofit organization, including partnerships with local ensembles including Pan in Motion and Castle of Our Skins; their Sō Laboratories concert series; a studio residency program in Brooklyn; and the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, an intensive two- week chamber music seminar for percussionists and composers, hosted on the Princeton University campus.
Sō Percussion is – Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting.
www.sopercussion.com