ISU Percussion Ensemble
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009 from 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm |
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| Location: | Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Building |
| Cost: | Free |
| Phone: | 515-294-3831 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Iowa State University Percussion Ensemble (ISUPE) under the direction of Matthew Coley will
perform an evening of unique and varied music on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:30pm. The concert will
include a tuneful marimba quartet and mixed keyboard percussion pieces, theatrical works for eight
cymbal players, and luscious sounds from the full ensemble of 13 players. Some of the composers
featured on the concert are Jeffrey Smith, Torbjorn Iwan Lundquist, John Cage, and David Gillingham.
ISUPE explores an enormous range of repertoire and the students get a chance to experience the
modern reality of percussion in the fullest sense. Everything from performing on traditional percussion
instruments such as snare drum, xylophone, and timpani, to dipping gongs in tubs of water, bowing
antique cymbals and vibraphones, performing on world percussion instruments, to performing classical
transcriptions in marimba ensembles is explored in ISUPE. This experience is unique to any other
ensemble in the school of music for the percussion student and is extremely important in their training.
ISUPE is made up of very talented percussion students from freshmen to seniors that are majoring in
either percussion performance, music education, Bachelors of Art in Music, or a minor in music at Iowa
State University. The ensemble is directed by the new percussion professor at ISU, Matthew Coley. Mr.
Coley came to Ames from Chicago where he was a freelance percussionist primarily focusing in solo
and chamber music work, and completing a Doctor of Music in percussion performance from
Northwestern University.
Mr. Coley and ISUPE have exciting concerts planned for February 23 and April 12, 2010 with the
premiere of a new work written for them by Chicago composer Bjorn Berkhout, a sampling of old
American rudimental drumming in collaboration with the flute studio of ISU, intriguing works for
percussion and electronics, and always more marimba. For more information on ISUPE concerts please
visit the ISU Department of Music website at www.music.iastate.edu.