New Music Collective presents So Percussion at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music March 28, 2009

Since coming together at the Yale School of Music in 1999, So Percussion has been creating music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. Realizing that percussion instruments can communicate all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility, it has not been an easy music to define.

Their music runs the gamut from percussion classics (Steve Reich’s Drumming), to new commissions (David Lang’s the so-called laws of nature), to original music (group member Jason Treuting’s Amid the Noise).
So Percussion has performed this music all over the United States, with concerts at the Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, Stanford Lively Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and many others. In addition, recent tours to Russia, Australia, Italy, Germany, and the Ukraine have brought them international acclaim.

Now in its sixth year, the Brooklyn Conservatory’s New Music Collective commissions and premieres new music while providing a professional performance forum for New York-based composers and performers of contemporary music. Nurturing contemporary and emerging composers is essential to the advancement of music and is a part of the Conservatory’s artistic philosophy. Past performers in the series include David Del Tredici, Lucy Shelton, Margaret Leng Tan, and more than 100 others. The series has hosted some 25 world premieres by many of New York City’s leading composers.