Past Events › Chicago Concert Season

Preston Bradley Hall- 3:00 p.m. Free   ANDRES Austerity Measures (TCP commission, Chicago premiere) HJERTMANN Automatic Glitch (TCP commission, World premiere) SKIDMORE Trying (World premiere) Third Coast Percussion closes out the 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with a program of all new works by rising stars of American composition. Timo Andres' Austerity Measures uses Bach's first two-part invention as a jumping off point for a journey through unimagined sound worlds. The first work commissioned through TCP's new Emerging Composers Partnership, Chicagoan Ben Hjertmann's Automatic…

6:30 p.m. TCP goes on at 7:30 p.m. Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park A program featuring all new music by Chicago composers, including Augusta Read Thomas's epic "Resounding Earth," scored for over 125 bells from around the world. We are sharing the bill with Brooklyn-based grit pop band Ghost Beach. OWEN CLAYTON CONDON Fractalia MARC MELLITS Gravity DAVID SKIDMORE Percussion Quartets AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Resounding Earth Click here for more info.

6:30 p.m. TCP goes on at 7:30 p.m. Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park A program featuring all new music by Chicago composers, including Augusta Read Thomas's epic "Resounding Earth," scored for over 125 bells from around the world. We are sharing the bill with Brooklyn-based grit pop band Ghost Beach. OWEN CLAYTON CONDON Fractalia MARC MELLITS Gravity DAVID SKIDMORE Percussion Quartets AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Resounding Earth Click here for more info.

5:45 p.m. FREE Amy Briggs, piano Daniel Schlosberg, piano REICH Sextet Click here for more info.

7:30 p.m. "Haunt of Last Nightfall" CAGE Credo in US RZEWSKI Coming Together LITTLE Haunt of Last Nightfall This concert is the culminating event in a week of activities looking at the tragic events that occurred in the small town of El Mozote, El Salvador during that country's civil war in the 1980's. These events inspired composer David T. Little's work for Third Coast Percussion entitled Haunt of Last Nightfall. Events leading up to the performance include a display of photographer…

8:30 p.m. Doors at 8 p.m. Featuring guest artists Rachel Beetz (flute) and Ross Karre (percussion) APPLEBAUM Straitjacket PFEFFER Jonathan was killed in battle against the Philistines (World Premiere, TCP commission- Emerging Composers Partnership) CUTHBERT New Work (World Premiere, TCP commission) DILLON Ordering-instincts SOREY Trio for Harold Budd  Click here for tickets. TCP launches a new concert initiative, Currents, as part of their Chicago Concert Season, featuring premieres of newly commissioned works by emerging composers and other unique, boundary-pushing repertoire…

2 nights! "Wild Sound" featuring guest artist Glenn Kotche on drumset KOTCHE Solo Piece TBD REICH Music for Drums REICH Nagoya Marimbas KOTCHE Drumkit Quartet #51 KOTCHE Wild Sound Click here for more info. Wild Sound was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Additional support provided by The Saint Paul…

2 nights! "Wild Sound" featuring guest artist Glenn Kotche on drumset KOTCHE Solo Piece TBD REICH Music for Drums REICH Nagoya Marimbas KOTCHE Drumkit Quartet #51 KOTCHE Wild Sound Click here for more info. Wild Sound was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Additional support provided by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's…

6:30pm- Free Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park Third Coast Percussion celebrates the 80th birthday of Terry Riley with an epic performance of Riley's master piece "In C." TCP will lead an ensemble of 80 of Chicago's finest musicians brought together for this occasion, including stars of Chicago's contemporary, classical, jazz and rock scenes, and students from local universities, youth orchestras and community music schools. Join us for this celebration of the joy of collective music making! Featuring musicians from: Fifth House…

Doors open at 5:15pm; performance begins at 5:45 Free St James Cathedral, Chicago   Third Coast Percussion returns to Rush Hour Concerts with a program of music composed for the ensemble by Chicago-based composers, including excerpts from Glenn Kotche's "Wild Sound" and Augusta Read Thomas's "Resounding Earth," and TCP member David Skidmore's newest work, "Trying."