Andrew Bliss and the University of Tennessee Percussion Ensemble were invited to the 2015 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (San Antonio, TX) to present the New Literature Showcase Concert. This is live footage from their Thursday, November 12, 2015 performance in the Lila Cockrell Theatre.
The concert featured 12 pieces in a kaleidoscopic fashion where each piece was played back-to-back and the audience was asked to hold their applause to the end of the performance. 10 pieces are performed here live, while George Aperghis' "Retrouvailles" and David Hollinden's "Time & Space" were pre-recorded by UTPE and shown on video during the concert between sets.
Please note that these performances are excerpts of many of the full pieces. They have been edited from their original form, and in some cases have been drastically cut in time, as a way of sharing them in a clinic / concert format.
Full Program:
night light(ning) by Evan Chapman *
The Blue Flame Quintet by Michael Burritt (Matthew Bimstein, soloist)
The Great Knot by Thomas Meadowcroft
Fleeting by Arnold Marinissen
Retrouvailles by Georges Aperghis
Augmented Realities by James Campbell
Music for Percussion Quartet by David Crowell *
Home by Sundown by Ralph Hicks
Time & Space by David Hollinden
Pas de Quatre by Sarah Wald
Rule of Inference by Marcus Schmickler
Relative Riffs by Alejandro Viñao *
* = world premiere performance & commissioned by UTPE
The University of Tennessee Percussion Ensemble
Directed by Andrew Bliss
Matthew Bimstein, Joshua Dreyer, Wesley Fowler, Nathaniel Gallagher, Emory Hensley, Will Hoover, Jared Hopland, Jordan McFarland, Lawrence Montgomery, Peter Naughton, Kevin O'Bryan, Alexandrea Richard, Ethan Spangler, Brianna Stock, Christian Swafford, Dwight Van de Vate, Konstantine Vlasis, Nicolas White, and Nathan Williamson.
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