The Percussion Ensemble’s first concert of the year is framed around both canonic and recent works for percussion quartet, quintet, and sextet. A huge variety of percussive chamber works will take the listener from the raw power of Xenakis' multi-drums, to a millennial's take on pristine bell sounds. Both works frame a listening experience around rhythmic and melodic interplay across beats, grooves, modes, melody, and meter. Works by Iannis Xenakis, Evan Chapman, Dinuk Wijeratne, Toru Takemitsu, and Per Andreassen will be featured.