2011

1/3 - 28 > Music & Dance

NT directs the Chapman Percussion Ensemble in the Collaborative Spirit, a month-long exploration of Music & Dance collaboration. Featuring the works of Reich, Rzewski, and Cage.

1/14 > Echos of the Pacific Rim

NT performs Sean Heim's Neak Ta with Susan Ung as part of A Confluence of Cultures: Echos of the Pacific Rim

1/24 > Johannes Fischer

NT hosts celebrated percussion virtuoso Johannes Fischer @ Chapman University. 7:30pm, free admission

2/12 > Percussion Symposium

NT hosts the 4th Chapman Percussion Symposium. Free admission, all are welcome

2/16 > Composition Recital @ Chapman

Come listen to four compositions by NT, including three premieres! Concert begins at 6pm in Salmon Hall.

Program:

Etude #1, Christina Cheon - marimba
Modicum's Semblance, Craig Shields - percussion & Brian Walsh - bass clarinet
Three Pieces for Violin, Andrew McIntosh
Distortion I - III, Kristina Driskall - soprano, Jillian Risigari-Gai - harp, Craig Shields & Christopher Bright - percussion

2/23 > UCLA

World Premiere of Adam Gilberti's Celestial Neighbors for percussion, clarinet(s), & piano

8pm, Jan Popper Hall, Schoenberg Music Building

3/1 > Taiwan

NT performs Sean Heim's Neak Ta with violist Susan Ung @ National Concert Hall

3/6 > Hong Kong

NT performs Sean Heim's Neak Ta with Susan Ung @ Hong Kong Arts Centre

3/12 > Fresno

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • Central California Day of Percussion @ California State Fresno
  • evening performance, details TBA

3/13 > San Francisco

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • San Francisco State University
  • LAPQ presents an afternoon concert as part of the Morrison Artist Series
  • McKenna Theater, 3pm, free

3/29 > Boulez & Disney Hall

Performing Sur Incises with Meastro Pierre Boulez as part of a tribute concert for the late Ernest Fleischmann

8pm, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

4/3 > Ventura

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • Ventura College
  • 3pm, Guthrie Hall
  • $5 student, $10 general admission

4/4 > Sacramento

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • Sacramento State University
  • LAPQ presents an evening concert
  • Music Recital Hall, 8pm, free

4/5 > Hayward

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • California State University - East Bay
  • Rafael Hernendaz, host
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Music Building room 1039

4/6 > Santa Cruz

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet

4/7 > San Francisco

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  • LAPQ presents a masterclass & performance for students of the SF Conservatory
  • 11am, free & all are welcome

4/8 > Bakersfield

NT with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
  • University of California - Bakersfield
  • LAPQ presents a masterclass & performance
  • 1pm, free & all are welcome

4/14 > Music & Dance

NT co-directs The Collaborative Spirit with dancer/choreographer Liz Maxwell
  • Featuring students from Chapman University's College of Performing Arts
  • 7:30pm, Chapman Auditorium, $15 general admission

4/20 > Whispering with XTET

Performing Don Crocket's Whispering in the Dark with XTET
• 7:30pm, Newman Hall, USC

4/22 > Pomona College

NT and cellist Roger Lebow perform works by Tom Flaherty and Osvaldo Golijov
• 8pm, Bridges Auditorium

5/7 > Jacaranda

NT performs Alberto Ginastera's Cantata para America Magica with Jacaranda: music at the edge
• 8pm, Barnum Hall

6/10 & 11 > PARTCH @ REDCAT

PARTCH returns to REDCAT for their annual triumph
• advance purchasing of tickets highly recommended!

8/19 - 21 > LAPQ Recording, Skywalker Studio

LAPQ records for Sono Luminus, Skywalker Studio

9/10 > LAPQ @ Zipper Hall

The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet performs an evening concert at Zipper Hall (at the Colburn School)

10/29 > Crumb Part 1 & Nigerian Spam

  • Performing George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening with percussionist Justin DeHart & pianists Genevieve Lee and Nadia Shpachenko @ Chapman University's Salmon Hall. 7:30 pm
  • Also on the same program, the long awaited world premiere of Shaun Naidoo's Nigerian Spam, an opera for solo percussion, pre-recorded percussion, computer voices, and Nigerian Spam emails

11/5 > LAPQ @ Music & Conversations

The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet returns to one of LA's best music salons, Music & Conversations

To be performed:
  • Repousee, by Joseph Pereira
  • Catfish, by Mark Applebaum

GAM Arts Center, 4975 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, 90019
Concert @ 8pm, wine and hors d'oeuvres @ 7:15
Tickets available here

11/6 > Crumb Part 2

  • Performing George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening with percussionist Justin DeHart & pianists Genevieve Lee and Nadia Shpachenko, and Nigerian Spam by Shaun Naidoo.
  • Pomona College "Little Bridges" Theater, 2pm

11/13 > Los Angeles Master Chorale

  • Performing the music of James Newton, Disney Concert Hall, 7pm

11/16 > Crumb Part 3

  • Performing George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening with percussionist Justin DeHart & pianists Genevieve Lee and Nadia Shpachenko, and Nigerian Spam by Shaun Naidoo.
  • CalPoly (Pomona, CA), 8pm

11/17 > Chapman Percussion Ensemble

  • The Chapman Percussion Ensemble presents their fall concert
  • Salmon Hall (Chapman University, Orange, CA), 7:30pm
  • Performing the music of Shaun Naidoo, Frank Zappa, Guo Wenjing, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich

12/6> Fred Katz's Jade Mountain

The LAPQ joins others to premiere Fred Katz' Jade Mountain for percussion, flute solo, and piano
 • Salmon Hall (Chapman University), 8:00pm
2012

1/7 & 15 > Lotosblume

  • Recording the music of Heim, Yi Ka Hoe, Chaipruck Mekara, and Wolfgang Seirel for ein klang, featuring sopranos Stacey Fraser and Anne Harley


1/21 > Jacaranda Music Forte Awards

NT performs Veronika Krausas' dramatic solo Intermezzi as part of Jacaranda Music's Forte Awards

1/29 > Maximusic @ Pacific Standard Time

NT performs James Tenney's Maximusic as part of Los Angeles' Pacific Standard Time

3/3 > PARTCH in San Diego

PARTCH helps celebrate the 75th anniversary of San Diego State University with a greatest hits program: Sonata Dementia, Castor & Pollux, Barstow, Lewis Carrol Songs, etc!!!

  • more details TBA

3/5 > Zipper Hall, LAPQ with Smoke & Mirrors

The LAPQ joins with Smoke & Mirrors to present an evening of percussion chamber music
  • Zipper Hall, 200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles
  • 8pm

3/11 > PARTCH in San Francisco

PARTCH shares the stage with the San Francisco Symphony in a program celebrating American Mavericks

3/17 > LAPQ premieres Phelps & Miller @ Chapman

The LAPQ presents an evening of new music for percussion quartet @ Chapman University

  • what: Alex Miller's Disappearance & Ben Phelps Year of Solitary Thinking...in Metal
  • where: Chapman University's Salmon Hall
  • when: 7:30pm, $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors, free for Chapman staff/faculty/students

3/26 > Monday Evening Concert

NT performs the music of Stefan Wolpe as part of Jazz Encounters

  • 8pm, Zipper Hall (Colburn School, Los Angeles)

4/18 > Confluence of Cultures @ Chapman

NT to perform works by Sean Heim and others celebrating a Confluence of Cultures

  • details TBA