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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."

FREE and open to the public This event is not ticketed Third Coast Percussion is ensemble-in-residence at the 2nd annual Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC) ISAAC SCHANKLER - Blindnesses STEVEN SNOWDEN - A Man with a Gun Lives Here CHRIS FISHER-LOCHHEAD - On Tenterhooks (commissioned by Third Coast Percussion) CARL SCHIMMEL - Serving Size 4 Bunnies Click here for more info

TIANGE ZHOU Beginning of Origin KUI DONG Scattered Ladder LEI LIANG Inkscape (Chicago premiere, co-commissioned by the Chinese Fine Arts Society) featuring Daniel Schlosberg, piano and Michael Lewanski, conductor GUO WENJING Parade $15/$20 Buy tickets

7:30 p.m. Third Coast Percussion brings the idea of using a single type of material in performance—a wood table, in the case of Belgian composer Thierry de Mey’s piece, and a drumhead in Donnacha Dennehy’s new work inspired by playing techniques of the Irish bodhrán drum. The ensemble rounds out the program by honoring Steve Reich’s 80th birthday with his iconic Sextet, in celebration of the ensemble's release of an all-Reich album on Cedille Records THIERRY DE MEY Table Music DONNACHA…

Third Coast Percussion presents its interactive WAVES program, exploring the science behind sound, as part of the Logan Center for the Arts Family Saturday Festival. $5 single tickets, $20 families of 5+ Click here for details.