“Cutting-Edge Queens” Concert

Experience world premieres and poetry-inspired music
in New York’s most adventurous borough

Percussia brings three world-premiere performances to Queens in this concert featuring modern works inspired poetry. Six acclaimed composers wrote each work especially for this Queens-based contemporary chamber music ensemble. Renowned soprano Melissa Fogarty will sing the lyrics featuring the words of W.H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, Gertrude Stein and more.

Free Admission!

October 10, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Jackson Heights Library
35-51 81st. Street
Jackson Heights, New York

Musicians: Ingrid Gordon & Andrea Pryor, percussion; Susan Jolles, harp; Margaret Lancaster, flute; Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, viola; and special guest artist Melissa Fogarty, soprano

Composers: Jamie Keesecker, Scott J. Ordway, David Roberts, Dennis Tobenski, Matthew Welch and Alejandro Viñao.

Percussia: Beating a path to modern world music.

This concert is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with funding from the DCA and the Decentralization Progam, a regrant program of the NYSCA, and funds from the Queens Library program department and the Music Trust Fund.

 

Inspired by Gamelan

A Campuran of Western Instruments and Indonesian Music

Experience a concert of modern works influenced by the gamelan music of Java and Bali. The performance features seven eclectic compositions from composers inspired by this intricate, magical tradition. The program includes works by Michael Tenzer, Colin McPhee, Gareth Farr and Steve Reich; an arrangement of a West Javanese gamelan piece by Percussia's Ingrid Gordon; and a world premiere by New York composer Matthew Welch.

Free admission!

September 6, 2008, at 2 p.m.
Langston Hughes Library
100-01 Northern Blvd.
Corona, New York

Musicians: Ingrid Gordon & Andrea Pryor, percussion; Susan Jolles, harp; Margaret Lancaster, flute, Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin, viola; Matthew Welch, conductor

This concert is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with funding from the DCA and the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the NYSCA, and funds from the Queens Library program department and the Music Trust Fund.


Percussia premiered Matthew Welch’s “Variasi Ombak” on September 9 2008, at the Langston Hughes Library in Corona, Queens.