Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert
$25
- Jen Baker, trombone
- Robert Black, double bass
- David Byrd-Marrow, French horn
- Vicky Chow, piano
- David Cossin, percussion
- Arlen Hlusko, cello
- Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
- Mark Stewart, electric guitar
- Ken Thomson, clarinet
Nick Dunston — Fainting is Down, Whooshing is Up (world premiere arrangement)
Fred Frith — Which It Is (world premiere)
Soo Yeon Lyuh — See You on the Other Side (world premiere arrangement)
Tomeka Reid — UNTETHERED (world premiere)
Aeryn Santillan — disconnect. (world premiere arrangement)
Ken Thomson — Performative (world premiere)
Trevor Weston — Rainbows and Butterflies (new arrangement)
Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert returns with a high-octane concert of world premieres and an expanded nine-piece Bang on a Can All-Stars lineup! World premieres by Tomeka Reid, Ken Thomson, and Fred Frith. New arrangements of works by Nick Dunston, Aeryn Santillan, Jeffrey Brooks, Trevor Weston, and Soo Yeon Lyuh.
$15 student tickets are available. Call the box office at (212) 501-3330.
All guests must wear a mask properly at all times while in the building. Audience members will need to be fully vaccinated with an FDA or WHO approved vaccine and must show proof of vaccination along with a government-issued photo ID. Audience members under the age of 12 (under the age of 5 beginning March 1, 2022) or patrons who are not able to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief must show proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time.
View Kaufman Music Center's full COVID-19 Policies here: https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/covid/
About Jen Baker, trombone
About Robert Black, double bass
About David Byrd-Marrow, French horn
About Vicky Chow, piano
About David Cossin, percussion
David Cossin is a specialist in new and experimental music who has worked across a broad spectrum of musical and artistic forms to incorporate new media with percussion. He has recorded and performed internationally with composers and ensembles including Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Meredith Monk, Tan Dun, Cecil Taylor, Talujon Percussion Quartet, and the trio Real Quiet. Numerous theater projects include collaborations with Blue Man Group, Mabou Mines, and director Peter Sellars.
Cossin was featured as the percussion soloist in Tan Dun's Grammy and Oscar-winning score to Ang Lee's film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He joined Sting for the world tour Symphonicities and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
His ventures into other art forms include sonic installations, which have been presented in New York, Italy, and Germany. He is an active composer and has also invented several new instruments that expand the limits of traditional percussion. David Cossin is the curator for the Sound Res Festival, an experimental music festival in southern Italy, and he also teaches percussion at Queens College in New York City.
https://www.msmnyc.edu/faculty/david-cossin/