Third Coast Percussion, a classical percussion ensemble comprising four NU alumni, took home a Grammy award Sunday night. Its album “Steve Reich” won the award for Best Chamber Group/Small Ensemble ...

The percussionist, whose Metal Wood Skin festival continues in London, explains how music became a lifelong inspiration Metal Wood Skin, my percussion festival at London’s Southbank Centre, is a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so ...

Third Coast Percussion final show for Friends of Chamber Music season. Michael Kirsty The Friends of Chamber Music is wrapping up its season by presenting another quartet – but hold-on before you go ...

Leif Segerstam can be a maddeningly inconsistent conductor, a musician whose recordings can frustrate as much as they inspire. He’s recorded Mahler 4 before, unremarkably, with Danish forces on ...

Classical Classroom, Ep. 168: Third Coast Percussion Plays At 1.21 Gigawatts Sean Connors of Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion talks about what being in a percussion-only ensemble is all about.

The GRAMMY-nominated group Sandbox Percussion, the first percussion ensemble to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has revealed its 15th season, highlighting the group's collaborations with some of ...

The GRAMMY Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (TCP) has announced its Chicago and touring schedules for the 2025-2026 season. As the first percussion ensemble ever ...

You probably know him as the current Executive Director of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera. But did you know that Giuliano Kornberg is no typical administrator and also has a degree in classical ...

Clockwise from left: Philip Glass and Third Coast Percussion members Peter Martin, David Skidmore, Sean Connors, and Robert Dillon Credit: Rebekka Federle Philip Glass arrives in town this Friday to ...

"I had a flair for rhythm,” the trailblazing percussionist and tabla artist Anuradha Pal told my students at Ahmedabad University, while describing how she came to learn the tabla as a child. A child ...

Louise Farrenc’s music is good as you’d expect from a precocious talent who’d studied piano with Hummel and composition with Reicha. Born in 1804, Farrenc’s misfortune was to be a female composer in ...