WHEN:
November 1, 2025
WHERE:
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street
Boston, MA
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The program opens with the ... percussion quartet STUDY No. 1 (2023) by one of today’s leading female artists, the Grammy Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery (b.1981). Inspired by marching band cadences and the West African “talking drum”, STUDY No. 1 explores a wide range of timbres and various types of pitch bending and speech-like rhythmic patterns. ...
Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour ...Celestial Circus (2013) is a 25-minute suite composed for two pianos and three percussionists that uses electrifying, inventive effects to showcase the spectacular deftness and multifarious sounds of the percussion. Featuring a trio of drumming masters, this compelling work requires precise coordination ...
2025 marks the centennial of Gunther Schuller’s birth (1925-2015). Ranking among the most eclectic of his generation or any other, Schuller was a composer, conductor, jazz and classical performer, author/historian, music publisher, record producer, and creator of a revolutionary, hybrid style known as “Third Stream.”Schuller served as President of the New England Conservatory, where he established a successful degree-granting jazz program, from 1967-1977. He was the winner of several major honors including the MacArthur Genius Award, DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award, a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, and inaugural membership in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame..."
Performers:
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)
Aaron Likness, piano
Yoko Hagino, piano
Lisa Pegher, percussion
Robert Schulz, percussion
Nick Tolle, percussion
Craig McNutt, percussion
Matt Sharrock, percussion
Mike Williams, percussion
Bill Manley, percussion
Jonathan Hess, percussion
Gil Rose, conductor
Program:
Jessie Montgomery, Study No 1 for percussion quartet (2023)
Richard Danielpour, Celestial Circus (2013) Boston premiere
Gunther Schuller, Grand Concerto for Percussion and Keyboards (2005)
