Random Access Music: TOKYO TO NEW YORK 東京とNY
$25 ($10 senior/student)
- Alicia "Lish" Lindsey, flute
- Thomas Piercy, clarinet
- Tomina Parvanova Lyden, harp
- Josh Perry, percussion
- Tengku Irfan, piano
Toru Takemitsu — Rain Spell
Joji Yuasa — A Winter Day
Gilbert Galindo — Where are you, Spirit Most High (world premiere)
Masatora Goya — Deep Dive (world premiere)
Frances White — Phases of the Moonflower (world premiere)
Random Access Music, under the Artistic Direction of Thomas Piercy, presents masterpieces from 20th-century Japanese avant-garde composers Yoshio Hachimura, Toru Takemitsu, and Joji Yuasa. These three pieces, rarely performed together in concert, are joined by world premieres composed for the same instrumentation by NYC-based RAM composers Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, and Frances White.
These quintets for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano are performed by the award-winning members of the RAM Players: Lish Lindsey, flute; Thomas Piercy, clarinet; Tomina Parvanova, harp; Josh Perry, percussion; and Tengku Irfan, piano.
The Hachimura, Takemitsu, and Yuasa works were composed for the critically acclaimed and ground-breaking Sound Space Ark ensemble. Piercy regularly works with composer Yuasa, and performed these Sound Ark pieces in a 2017 concert in Tokyo at the National Noh Theatre with the original Sound Ark pianist Aki Takahashi.
About Alicia "Lish" Lindsey, flute
About Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital, and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Described by The New York Times as “Brilliant... playing with refinement and flair… evoking a panache in the contemporary works…,” Mr. Piercy presents audiences to varied and exciting concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations.
Piercy's repertoire ranges from the Classical period to premieres of compositions written for him by some of the most outstanding composers of today, including Ned Rorem, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Jennifer Higdon, Fernando Otero, and Shoichi Yabuta.
http://www.thomaspiercy.com/About Josh Perry, percussion
Percussionist Joshua Perry is a passionate advocate for contemporary music and interdisciplinary performance mediums. Acclaimed by The New York Times as a "creative percussionist," Perry is an ensemble member of Iktus Percussion, ensemble mise-en, and Hotel Elefant. Recently, Perry has been a featured soloist at the Kroumata Percussion Center in Stockholm, Sweden, the Transplanted Roots Symposium in Guanajuato, Mexico, Audio Trading Manual in Seoul, South Korea, and at the Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Festival appearances include Donaueschinger Musiktage, NIME 2021, SEAMUS, New Voices-New Music at Carnegie Hall, June in Buffalo festival, MATA festival, and the Bang on a Can Marathon. He has recorded for New Focus Recordings, New Amsterdam Records, Albany Records, Gold Bolus Recordings, and Navona Records labels. A proponent for composer-performer collaboration, he consistently works with living composers and has premiered well over 100 works for percussion and mixed ensemble. Perry received his Doctorate of Music (DMA) from Stony Brook University. He currently serves as adjunct professor of percussion at Molloy University.
https://joshperry-music.com/