Joseph Gramley, director.

The famed U-M Percussion Ensemble presents their first concert in SMTD’s new Hankinson Rehearsal Hall. This program features post-tonal and post-minimalist music by leading composers of the 20th century: Alfred Schnittke, Michael Gordon, and Steve Reich. Gordon’s work Timber, will serve as a U-M premiere by the founder of Bang on a Can. This same work will return on the Power Center Dance Series in February, to be filmed and choreographed by Rudolf Arnheim Distinguished Professor of Dance Peter Sparling. Reich’s seminal Six Marimbas, coached by DMA candidate Jonathan D. Smith and Schnittke’s Percussion Quartet will also be performed.