UW Percussion Ensemble – Past Concerts

The UW Percussion Ensemble, comprising graduate and undergraduate percussion students, performs many genres of contemporary music arranged …

Caroline Shaw — Selected works
Elena Rykova — Selected works
Qu Xiao-Song — Selected works
Pauline Oliveros — Selected works
George Lewis — Selected works
Stacey Bowers — Selected works

Edgard Varèse — Ionisation
Amadeo Roldán — Ritmicas
James Tenney — Selected works
Gabriela Lena Frank — Selected works
Nicholas Hubbell — Selected works
Edgard Varèse — Ionisation

Traditional — Selected works (arrangements of calypso, salsa, reggae, soca, & other dance styles)
CHARI (Chari Glogovac-Smith) — They Named Her Hurricane (world premiere)
Melissa Wang — Your Turn: A Family Game (world premiere)
Ryan Baker — 41 Marimba (world premiere)
Jenny Beck — By the time we look for it
Joe W. Moore III — Crescent
Arun Chandra — Crocker (for percussion and tape; presented by the graduate percussion trio)

The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents a year-end performance shared with the UW Steel Drum Band (Shannon Dudley, d…

FOREST FEST brings a NYC/San Diego-based, collective percussion quintet, The Forest (Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, Lesley Mok…

The University of Washington Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents its Autumn Quarter concert.

The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) & UW Steel Band (Shannon Dudley, director) present live-streamed & pre-recorded performances in their Spring 2021 virtual concert.

Shared concert marking the conclusion of the Harry Partch residency at the UW.

The University of Washington Percussion Ensemble presents a year-end performance with the UW Steel Drum Band and the UW Gamelan Ensemble.

Music by Oliver Schneller, Jason Eckardt, Eric Wubbels, and Wang Lu – featured composers in the UW School of Music’s Spring Composers Colloquium – as well as works by UW composition students.

A lecture-concert for a performance art piece that is a response to the well-known Innocents Project, which works to exonerate wrongly convicted individuals and advocates for reforms to the criminal justice system.

A musical response to the Innocence Project, using spoken word, electronics, field recordings, found objects, and traditional percussion to focus on the exoneration of those wrongly convicted and reform of the criminal justice system.

Yiheng Yvonne Wu – Violent Tender
Edgard Varèse – Ionisation
Philip Schuessler – The Glass Abattoir

Bonnie Whiting leads students from the UW School of Music Percussion Studio in an end-of-the-year program of music from around the globe.

An interactive performance featuring music from Bay Area composer Danny Clay's Playbook, a set of whimsical scores and instructions utilizing found-object and traditional percussion. Audience members are welcome to bring their own instruments and participate.

University of Washington artist-in-residence Bonnie Whiting directs students from the UW percussion studio.

The UW Percussion Ensemble, Steel Drum Ensemble, and Gamelan Ensemble present music from a variety of musical traditions.

Thomas Collier directs the UW Percussion Ensemble.

Students of Tom Collier perform works for percussion.