University of Wisconsin-Madison Percussion Program

Aaaaaand we are home!!! We had such a blast in Valencia and Llíria playing music, meeting other percussionists, exploring the city, and premiering Michael Udow’s “12 Labors of Hercules”! Logging off for now to get over the jet lag 😵‍💫

We have arrived in Valencia!!!

About to board for the Edeta Arts Festival in Valencia! 🇪🇸

The UW-Madison percussion studio is SO ready for Spain!!

We are gearing up tor the Edeta Arts Festival in Lliria, Spain next week! Our world and chamber percussion ensembles will be performing on multiple concerts and a premiere piece by Michael Udow.

The percussion studio enjoyed our last studio class, an MSO weekend featuring our grad students and professors, and a zoom meeting with Michael Udow in preparation to our trip to Spain this summer!

We had a great Symphonic Orchestra concert!!! We played The Planets (Holst), The B-Sides (Bates), and Claire de Lune (Debussy).

Congrats Graduate Percussion Group on their final performance of the year! They performed Evergreen (Honstein), Table Music (de Mey), and Threads (Lansky).

Spread the word! Join us for our World Percussion gig at The Sett this Friday at 8:00 pm!

We had a great Chamber Percussion Ensemble concert, thanks to all who joined us! Tune in this Friday for the World Percussion Ensemble concert at the Sett!

Congratulations to our Symphonic Wind Ensemble on a stellar performance at the with MSO Organist Greg. Repertoire included Wagner, Strauss, Daugherty, and Tell.

CONGRATS PROFESSOR ON A GREAT RECITAL!!!! Repertoire included works by Di Sanza, Hill, Nørgård, and .

Our double recital is complete with ’s final Master’s recital! Repertoire included works by Psathas, Duckworth, Bach, Saariacho, and Daughtrey.

Congrats to on a phenomenal Senior recital! Repertoire included works by Thierry de Mey, Psathas, Gerassimez, Ravel, Snowden, Cangelosi, and Rossini.

Performance class!

Congrats Stmphonic Orchestra on a great concert! Repertoire included Austin’s Incatenatura, Sibelius 5, and Mozart’s Requiem.

We had a fun performance class ahead of a bunch of recitals coming up!

Congrats Symphonic Wind Ensemble on a great concert before spring break! 💐

Yay, Concert Band!! Phenomenal concert :)) Repertoire by Nicole Piunno, Brian Balmages, Norman Dello Joio, Michael Markowski, and Frank Ticheli.

Some more moments from our studio recital yesterday!

We had a fun performance class today!

We enjoyed a great recital by DMA student Matt Schneider! Congrats on his first recital at UW-Madison!

Congrats DMA student .demartinis on an amazing jazz recital!

We loved having ’s timpanist Dean Borghasani come in for a Masterclass!

Thank you grad students .demartinis and for the audio class pt. 2! We learned about using an interface and post-production.

Congrats to .demartinis and on their duo recital!

Symphony Orchestra closed out a busy cycle of concerts! Works performed were Shuying Li’s Purple Mountains (Wisconsin Premiere), Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, and Price’s First Symphony.

We had a great Chamber Percussion Ensemble concert tonight! Thanks to all who joined us, we had a great time :)

We LOVED hosting Caitlyn Jones for a lovely day of learning and playing! From her presentation on musician health maintenance to her constructive comments on student pieces, we learned a lot! She capped off the day with a great recital featuring studio members .kendal, , and . Thanks so much for joining us!

We are very excited to release EIGHT new chamber and world percussion ensemble performance videos! This video bundle is headlined by Juri Seo’s Spoons (performed on…well….a bunch of spoons). We were very lucky to have Juri in Madison to coach the piece before the recording session!

We are also excited to present two premier performances in this video collection! Untitled by Trygve Lebakken (a member of the percussion studio) and Sylvan Nights by Michael Shingo Crawford.

Members of the world percussion ensemble are featured in three videos of original compositions by Adam Goren, Marc Hill, Robert Rockman and Michael Walling.

We hope you enjoy these performances!

Spoons – by Juri Seo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sH24mUnYo
Untitled – by Trygve Lebakken (premier performance)
https://youtu.be/DPH8zqWU2ZM
Sylvan Nights – by Michael Shingo Crawford (premier performance)
https://youtu.be/TNDx3ZTFnoU
Mists – by Matthew Burtner
https://youtu.be/7n3Oi1k6N6Q
Imaginary Landscape No. 2 – by John Cage
https://youtu.be/gGNqTaXmcSU
Chaos in Malfuf - by Adam Goren
https://youtu.be/h7auBMpFUzs
Ritmica – by Marc Hill
https://youtu.be/qsTAcCqGvZE
{R2D2 Scream} - by Robert Rockman & Michael Walling
https://youtu.be/6O1u_OnrbJ4

Spoons by Juri Seo The University of Wisconsin - Madison Chamber Percussion Ensemble performs "Spoons" by Juri Seo. We were very lucky to have Juri coach the performers before ...