Livestream Performance: Digital Third Coast Percussion: Danny Elfman
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Third Coast Percussion
Date: Friday, May 29, 2020
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents a livestream performance featuring Digital Third Coast Percussion with Danny Elfman on Friday, May 29, 2020.

Join Grammy Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion as it performs a new work composed by four-time Oscar nominee and renowned film composer Danny Elfman. The Moss Arts Center presents a livestream performance of Elfman's new work, “Percussion Quartet,” along with exclusive, never-before-seen interview footage with the composer, and a live question-and-answer session with the members of Third Coast Percussion.

To view the performance, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/digital-third-coast-percussion.html.

Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning, artist-run quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The four members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and since 2012, have served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting the audience to play along in a concert or educational performance, or inviting their fans around the world to create new music using one of their free mobile apps.

Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy touring schedule, with past performances in 32 of the 50 states plus Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and venues ranging from concert halls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and De Doelen to clubs and alternative performance spaces such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and the National Gallery’s West Garden Court.

The quartet’s curiosity and eclectic taste have led to a series of unlikely collaborations that have produced exciting new art. The ensemble has worked with engineers at the University of Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, dancers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and musicians from traditions ranging from the mbira music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people, to indie rockers, to some of the world’s leading concert musicians.

Links:

• http://thirdcoastpercussion.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/thirdcoastpercussion
• https://www.twitter.com/thirdcoastperc
• https://www.youtube.com/user/thirdcoastpercussion/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/thirdcoastpercussion/

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/digital-third-coast-percussion.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or call 540-231-5300.