Concert: Steven Schick with Iowa Percussion
Part of the Steven Schick Residency
Presented by Hancher in collaboration with Iowa Percussion at the University of Iowa School of Music
In celebration of Steven Schick’s residency at the institution, Iowa Percussion will present a gala concert. The performance will feature Edgard Varèse’s seminal work Ionisation, conducted by Schick, as well as a pair of virtuoso solo works long associated with Schick. To close the evening, Schick will conduct Mau Mau Suite, the best-known piece by his Iowa teacher and mentor Thomas L. Davis.
Iowa Percussion will lead off the program with the world premiere of a piece by alumnus Peter Naughton titled Eroica Transformation (a contemporary reimagining of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3) and follow with Dan Moore’s new arrangement of Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte.
PROGRAM:
Peter NAUGHTON: Eroica Transformation
Caroline SHAW / arr. Dan MOORE: Entr’acte
Thomas DAVIS: Mau Mau Suite
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN: Zyklus (Steven Schick solo)
Brian FERNEYHOUGH: Bone Alphabet (Steven Schick solo)
Edgard VARÈSE: Ionisation
HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
Stephen & Victoria West
West Music
This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.
View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31141
This concert is free and open to the public.