Percussionist

On the heels of her 2025 Pulitzer Prize in music, singular Filipinx-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra returns to NS+ with a program featuring U.S. and New York premieres, as well as tales of collecting sound over time in remote, rustic corners of the world.

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NationalSawdust+ presents Susie Ibarra's Parallels and Confluence: Bugang and Pasig Rivers

National Sawdust

Blending ancient aesthetics with cutting-edge creativity, this trio of internationally acclaimed musicians, Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen, and Susie Ibarra, utilize classic instruments, stylized vocal techniques, electronic effects, and improvisations to make a musical style all their own. With performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, they have engaged audiences with their unique spins on traditional sound, individually and collectively.

Asian Sound Revolution

Logan Center

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra reunites her genre-crossing Talking Gong Trio alongside Claire Chase and Alex Peh—and enlists vocal ensemble HEX—for a program celebrating sound as a physical phenomenon. Anchoring the evening is the world premiere of her new work with librettist Jeffrey Yang, The Water Dreams of Animals, inspired by Ibarra’s meditative sound studies of historical waters and our connections to them. This new work, commissioned by the LA Phil, will have its concert premiere on a program opening with works from Tania León, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and José Maceda that honor sonic traditions from Hawaiʻi to Cuba to the Philippines.

Percussionist

Susie Ibarra

Events

Upcoming events

May 25, 2027

Water Dreams and Air Songs · Los Angeles Philharmonic

Past events

Oct 7, 2025

NationalSawdust+ presents Susie Ibarra's Parallels and Confluence: Bugang and Pasig Rivers · National Sawdust

Oct 13, 2024

Asian Sound Revolution · UChicago Presents

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