On Wednesday, June 22 at 7:30pm, as part of the adventurous YALE IN NEW YORK series, the Yale Percussion Group brings high-energy works by Steve Reich and David Lang to the stunning Galapagos Art Space stage in Brooklyn (16 Main Street).
The dynamic ensemble will present the so-called laws of nature, a monumentally virtuosic percussion quartet by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Yale School of Music faculty member
David Lang. Written for So Percussion in 2002, this piece explores explore the limits of the scientific method through varied forms of fractured repetition, and features instruments built by the percussionists specifically for the piece. These instruments range from tuned metal pipes and planks of wood to teacups and flowerpots. Fresh from their performance of Steve Reich's Sextet in Zankel Hall last December, the ensemble will also perform Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood, a polyrhythmic tour-de-force of sound.
Founded in 1997 by Robert van Sice, the Yale Percussion Group is composed of talented and dedicated young artists who have come from around the world for graduate study at the Yale School of Music. The YPG earned acclaim for its performances at Make Music New York's Xenakis festival in Central Park last summer and two appearances last year in Zankel Hall at
Carnegie Hall (both presented by Yale in New York). Members of the YPG have gone on to form the acclaimed quartet So Percussion and to perform with Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Two, the
Carnegie Hall Academy Ensemble and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Yale percussion students and graduates have recently won the Linz International Marimba Competition in Austria and the Concert Artist Guild Competition.
The current members of the Yale Percussion Group are: Michael Compitello '11MMA;
John Corkill '11AD;
Ian Rosenbaum '11AD; Yun-Chu Candy Chiu '11MM; Leonardo Gorosito '11MM; and
Adam Rosenblatt '12MM.
