Percussionist

For over a decade Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas has been thrilling audiences with their “engaging musicality and easy sense of ensemble” (Cleveland Classical) and “superb” performances (Boston Globe). Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat (she/her) and marimbist Matt Sharrock (they/them) relish the creative potential of working with living composers, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others” and a commissioned repertoire of over 90 works. Since 2017, they have hosted their annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Alba Music Festival, Festival of New American Music, Music on the Edge, New Music Miami, and Red Note New Music Festival, among others. Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Miami, New York University, and Longy’s Divergent Studio. They have three albums – Right now, in a second; Sift; and Wired – released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris and Marimba One. For more information, visit www.transientcanvas.com.

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Guest Artist Series Recital – Transient Canvas

University of Arizona

Hinge Quartet presents Fractured Time, a program of contemporary music ranging from Cole Reyes’s beautiful ambient soundscapes to the intense and brutal noise sculptures of Sam Pluta, and from the the rigorously freeform improvisations of Anthony Braxton to the ritualistic theatricality of Sarah Grace Graves. This concert will showcase the wide diversity of musical expressivity of composers of the 21st century.

Hinge Quartet: Fractured Time

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Transient Canvas (clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock) presents the premiere performance of their new touring program, “Only Breath,” featuring music by Jennifer Bellor, Tina Tallon, Badie Khaleghian, Jon Yu, and Mikhail Johnson, with the world premiere of “Preliminary studies on fluidity and sensuality” by Luis Quintana.

Faculty Recital: Transient Canvas

Matt Sharrock leads Boston Conservatory Composers Performance Ensemble in a concert featuring chamber music from the standard repertoire, as well as new works by Boston Conservatory composition students.

Boston Conservatory Composers Performance Ensemble

Renowned Swiss ensemble Lugano Percussion presents a concert of music for large percussion by leading Swiss and Italian composers. They are joined by soprano Rose Hegele (M.M. '18) and percussion soloist Matt Sharrock (M.M. '11 and instructor of core studies), performing two previously unheard pieces by beloved Boston composer William Thomas McKinley.

Guest Ensemble: Lugano Percussion Ensemble

In person over here, virtual over there, the supernatural vs. reality, what are the dualities in ourselves?
Our program unfolds around TULPA, composed and produced by composer Curtis K. Hughes, music by Angélica Negrón, and more with vocalist Danny Rivera, violinist Shaw Pong Liu, pianist Brian Friedland, percussionist Aaron Trant, soprano Rose Hegele, clarinetist Alexis Lanz, bass clarinetist Amy Advocat, bassoonist Jensen Ling, pianist Sarah Bob, vibraphonist Brian Calhoon, marimba player Greg Simonds, violinist Lilit Hartunian, cellists Bri Tagliaferro and Ben Baker, cello, conductor Matt Sharrock, and paintings by Ola Aksan.

New Gallery Concert Series • BEGIN THERE • Sarah Bob, Founding Artistic Director

First Church In Jamaica Plain

Guest ensemble Hinge presents the premiere of their program Clockworks, which explores themes of mechanization and dehumanization in contemporary society and features works by Chaya Czernowin, Katherine Young, Louis Andriessen, Laurie Spiegel, and Meshuggah.

Matt Sharrock

Percussionist

Events

Feb 17, 2024

Guest Artist Series Recital – Transient Canvas · University of Arizona School of Music

Jan 26, 2024

Hinge Quartet: Fractured Time · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Sep 23, 2023

Faculty Recital: Transient Canvas · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Apr 30, 2023

Boston Conservatory Composers Performance Ensemble · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Feb 24, 2023

Guest Ensemble: Lugano Percussion Ensemble · Boston Conservatory at Berklee

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