The World Percussion Ensemble presents a concert of music that draws rhythms from the drumming cultures of Africa, the Middle East, India, the Caribbean and South America. The performance includes presentations on the origins of the music being played and its historical development.
ASU's Folkloric Percussion Ensembles Join With Special Guests the Mallet Masters from Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School.
On day three of the PRISMS Festival, you'll hear music by members of ASU's composition and theory faculty: Garth Paine, Fernanda Navarro, Jody Rockmaker and Spency Arias. You'll also hear ASU clarinet professor Robert Spring play a new piece written for him by local composer Barry Moon, and ASU alum Bonson Lee play Shelley Washington's tribute to Charles Mingus, MO'INGUS.
The second entry in ASU's PRISMS Festival includes the winner of our call for scores: Julie Zhu's lawrence st., a saxophone quartet that the composer describes as "a mathematical sweep, constructed from swirls and grids." The program also includes chamber music by Becky Brown (US), Yader Ugarte (Nicaragua), Iván-Manuel Tapia Bruno (Chile), and ASU composition students Kylar Gardner, Tommy McPhee, Noemy Esparza-Isaacson and R Kelvin McCartney Adesso.
The first concert in this year's PRISMS Festival features Pierre Boulez's monumental Sur Incises, a piece described by music critic Tim Page as "charged with a bright, cold, hard brilliance, like a spray of crushed ice." Rounding out the program are works for instruments and electronics by ASU faculty members Alex Temple, Gabriel Bolaños and alejandro t. acierto.
A concert featuring the voice students of Professor Nathan Myers.
In this fluid confluence of lecture and performance, Karim Nagi leads a tour into the soul of traditional Arab music, revealing what rhythm & melody teaches us about culture. Nagi demonstrates his tradition’s musical systems and percussive traditions, discussing aspects of form, ornamentation and improvisation. He performs on multiple percussive instruments from Egypt, Syria, Morocco and the Arabian Peninsula, along with a 7-string version of the Buzuq lute.
Hyeongji Choi presents a piano recital in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music degree requirements.
Student degree recitals are subject to cancellation.
Isabella Kolasinski presents a horn recital in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music degree requirements.
Shauna Bierly performs works by Haydn, Brahms, Ravel and Komitas
Shauna Bierly presents a piano recital in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music degree requirements.
Muyuan Liu presents a piano recital in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music degree requirements.
Student degree recitals are subject to cancellation.