Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood

Featuring

David Skidmore
Robert Dillon
Peter Martin
Sean Connors
David Friend
Oliver Hagen

Matthew Duvall
Third Coast Percussion
Steve Reich

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Steve Reich's music is known for its steady pulse, repetition, and canons, combining rigorous structures with propulsive rhythms and seductive instrumental color.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Steve Reich's musical studies included Gamelan, African drumming at the University of Ghana, and traditional forms of chanting Hebrew scriptures.

Performer Biography

Third Coast Percussion is the Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Composer Biography

Steve Reich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, has been called "America's greatest living composer" and "the most original musical thinker of our time."

Cultural Impact

Steve Reich's music has inspired the percussion field, with its rhythmic drive and perpetual cycle seeming to have marimbas and vibraphones "in its very DNA."

Performer Biography

Third Coast Percussion, hailed for its "virtuosity and deft, precisely timed wit," was founded in 2005 and performs hundreds of concerts globally.

Interpretation

The members of Third Coast Percussion are part of the second generation of musicians to perform Steve Reich's music, having grown up with it already established.