Chapman University Conservatory of Music
4th Chapman Percussion Symposium

Nick Terry, Symposium Host & Director

Date:   Saturday, February 12, 2011

Time:   1:00pm – 10:00pm

Place:   Crean Orchestral Recital Hall (afternoon), Chapman Auditorium (evening concert)

The 2011 Chapman Percussion Symposium is a daylong celebration of percussion music, featuring many Southern Californian artists, educators, and ensembles, as well as many world-class guest artists.  Held in Chapman University’s comfortable and intimate Oliphant Hall, the Symposium makes it easy to listen, discuss, network, and re-connect with musicians, teachers, and enthusiasts who help to make Southern California one of the nation’s most vibrant percussion communities.

1:00pm – 3:45pm (Crean Orchestral Recital Hall)

·      Join the Hands On’Semble for an interactive workshop & performance in which high school and collegiate percussion ensembles will be coached on selections from the “Hands On’Semble Songbook”.  Orchestration, groove & feel, non-Western hand drumming, and improvisation ideas will be discussed.  Student workshops will alternate with exciting performances by the Hands On’Semble, allowing for an enlightening and comprehensive journey through their award-winning, sonically exotic music.

Merce Cunningham - MinEvent

4pm (Chapman Auditorium)

·      Students from the Chapman University’s College of Performing Arts Department of Dance and Conservatory of Music combine to present one of the most important music & dance collaborations of the 20th century.  Featuring segments of Merce Cunningham choreography performed alongside works by John Cage, the MinEvent is a site-specific, effervescent, and not-to-be-missed experience for all.

Third Coast Percussion
http://thirdcoastpercussion.com

7:30pm (Chapman Auditorium)

·      Returning to Chapman’s campus by popular demand, Chicago's "sonically spectacular" quartet, Third Coast Percussion, presents a concert at the Chapman Percussion Symposium featuring the music of John Cage and David T. Little. Third Coast will perform music from their upcoming DVD/CD of Cage's percussion music, followed by David T. Little's "Haunt of Last Nightfall", commissioned by Third Coast and inspired by Little's passion for heavy metal and his reaction to a long-forgotten but tragic event.

I look forward to welcoming you and your students to the Conservatory of Music,