DESCRIPTION:
"Bend" by Peter Martin

Performed by Third Coast Percussion
Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore

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ABOUT THE PIECE:

BEND draws inspiration from the player piano compositions of Bruce Goff, a wonderfully unconventional architect and amateur composer. Many of Goff's piano rolls were highly stylized geometric designs perforated into the scrolls, resulting in music that created very clear sonic "shapes". Whereas these shapes would create the pitch and rhythm of a player piano performance, BEND translates this visual imagery into volume, tone, and gesture. The composer's experience with the piano rolls through a blurry, decades old video inspired an unconventional sound palette created with alternative techniques on the two marimbas.

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ABOUT THE COMPOSER:

Peter Martin is an ensemble Ensemble Member and Finance Director of the Grammy-winning percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion. Peter has performed with many leading new music ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Eighth Blackbird, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble, Opera Cabal, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Ensemble Signal, and was a founding member of the award-winning contemporary music group Ensemble Dal Niente. His recorded work can be heard on the Cedille, New World, New Focus, New Amsterdam, Mode, Ears & Eyes, Harmonia Mundi, and Narooma labels.

As an educator, Peter was an Assistant Professor and Director of Percussion Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA from 2009-2013. He held previous teaching positions at Northwestern University and Trinity International University.

Peter holds Doctor of Music and Master of Music Degrees degrees from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and a Bachelor of Music Degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. While a student, Peter was awarded first prize at the Percussive Arts Society International Solo Marimba Competition. His teachers include Michael Burritt, She-e Wu, and Leigh Howard Stevens.

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ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE:

Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy Award-winning, artist-run quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The four members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and since 2013, have served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting the audience to play along in a concert or educational performance, or inviting their fans around the world to create new music using one of their free mobile apps.

Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy touring schedule, with past performances in 32 of the 50 states plus Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and venues ranging from concert halls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and De Doelen to clubs and alternative performance spaces such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and the National Gallery’s West Garden Court.

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