U of M School of Music & MacPhail Center for Music Kick Off New Chamber Series with ‘An Evening of Collaborative Percussion’

The University of Minnesota School of Music and MacPhail Center for Music will present the first of four concerts in a new chamber series with An Evening of Collaborative Percussion on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 8 p.m. at MacPhail’s Antonello Hall. The evening will feature U of M School of Music Professor Fernando Meza, MacPhail President, COO and Teaching Artist Paul Babcock, the U of M Percussion Ensemble, and the MacPhail Rimshots! Percussion Ensemble. Events in this series are free and open to the public.

The program will be an eclectic mix of percussive works, including Emmanuel Séjourné’s Akadinda Trio, Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble, Mvt. 4, Bob Becker’s Mudra, for prepared tom-tom and percussion ensemble, John Cage’s Third Construction, Edgar Varése’s Ionisation, and Ney Rosauro’s Samba.

Upcoming concerts in the series: Guitar Concert: Six Strings Valentine with Maja Radovanlija (SOM professor) and Alan Johnson and Jean Seils (MacPhail teaching artists) and MacPhail students on February 14, 2013; Collaborative Brass concert with performances by David Baldwin (SOM professor), Allison Hall and Timothy Bradley (MacPhail teaching artists) on March 8, 2013; and Voice Concert: Songs of Spring with Adriana Zabala (SOM professor) and MacPhail teaching artists and students on April 3, 2013.