PSU Percussion Ensemble: Sculptures in Rhythm

• Andrés Pinzón, percussion

Garth Neustadter — Seaborne ("I. Above"; with film by Kjell van Sice)
Daniel Levitan — Variations on a Ghanaian Theme
George Hamilton Green — Log Cabin Blues
Ayanna Woods — Double Drum Dutch
Rudiger Pawassar — Sculpture in Wood
Terry Longshore — Kangaroopak Sardha

The PSU Percussion Ensemble presents contemporary works for chamber percussion ensemble.

Seaborne (by Emmy-award winner composer Garth Neustadter features coordination with live film projection, and for this piece, we're featuring graduate collaborative pianist Charlie Copeland and undergraduate pianist AJ Allida. "Above" is the first movement of a three-movement work, which was premiered by The Percussion Collective. Log Cabin Blues is a ragtime xylophone work by George Hamilton Green featuring percussion major Andrés Pinzón as xylophone soloist. Double Drum Dutch is a recently-composed work by Ayanna Woods, and was commissioned and premiered by Chicago's Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion. Lastly, Kangaroopak Sardha by Terry Longshore will feature the entire ensemble and is based on both North and South Indian traditional forms and rhythms.

About Portland State University Percussion Ensemble

https://www.pdx.edu/music-theater/percussion

About Portland State University School of Music & Theater

https://www.pdx.edu/music-theater/

About Andrés Pinzón, percussion

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSbDmkV6GK1ln0I_l84g3Xw/videos