The Grammy Award–winning Third Coast Percussion performs an entire concert of New York premieres by four singular composers. Featured among them is a work by tabla master and global icon Zakir Hussain, who performs alongside the group in a must-hear moment for percussion fans. The program also features new music by Jlin, a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her previous collaboration with Third Coast Percussion (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall); Armenian jazz pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan; and New York City’s own Jessie Montgomery, whose music is acclaimed as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).

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Third Coast Percussion

Carnegie Hall

Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a Coast-to-Coast tour featuring her Olivier-nominated Diabelli Variations, set to Beethoven’s masterpiece of the same name. The first and only choreographer to take on the intensely demanding and demonically complex work, Tharp makes visible the elegant humor and depth of the composer’s layered genius.

Twyla Tharp Dance: Diamond Jubilee

Detroit Opera House

Dvořák’s gift to America in 1893 was nothing less than a symphonic sound we could call our own. Guest Conductor David Danzmayr makes his GTMF debut with the highly influential “New World” Symphony and a performance of co-commissioned work for Third Coast Percussion by Clarice Assad called “Play!” that is about “finding awe in the little things.”

Festival Orchestra: New World Symphony

Walk Festival Hall

Third Coast Percussion’s Think Outside the Drum program is a fun, interactive and educational presentation for all ages. Families will learn about the building blocks of music through active participation in a series of activities including clapping, singing and a listening game.

FamilyJam with Third Coast Percussion: Think Outside the Drum

Revel in the music of myth, magic, and marvel! Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion and Music Director Ken-David Masur take the stage for Tōru Takemitsu’s visually captivating From Me Flows What You Call Time, which calls for unusual bells suspended from the ceiling and played using long, colorful ribbons. Debussy’s Nocturnes evoke the hazy motions of clouds, the dancing rhythms of festivals, and the mysterious songs of the Sirens through a trio of tone poems. Bookending this captivating concert is music by Dukas, opening with the brass choir fanfare from his ballet about a mischievous mythological spirit, and ending with his enchanting and familiar frolic The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Takemitsu & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Warner Grand Theater

Composer/performer Jessie Montgomery is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence and was recently named Musical America‘s 2023 Composer of the Year. TCP is thrilled to collaborate with Jessie in a dynamic program that equally showcases her excellence as visionary creator and virtuosic performer. Her first-ever work for percussion quartet draws a universe of sounds and characters out of a very compact percussion setup, and is paired with Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra–a tour de force that draws inspiration from the vibrant sounds of Javanese gamelan.

Jessie Montgomery + Third Coast Percussion at DePaul University

DePaul University Welcome Center

Grammy-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion brings their eclectic and genre-redefining musicality to The Nimoy. With a repertoire that includes commissioned and collaborative works by all-star composers such as Danny Elfman, Philip Glass and Jlin, among others across a wide variety of genres, Third Coast Percussion celebrates the extraordinary depth and breadth of possibilities in the world of percussion.

UCLA Nimoy Theater

FamilyJam builds on the success of KidsJam Workshops for Homeschool Families – interactive programs that connect kids and families with community teaching artists to learn about the people, cultures, and musical traditions from around the world as they make music, move, and enjoy other creative activities. FamilyJam will take KidsJam programs into the weekend, where kids and families will experience a short 25-30 minute concert in one of Landmark Center’s historic spaces, followed by instrument demos and other hands-on experiences with the musicians in the  Schubert Club Music Museum. In keeping with Schubert Club’s goal of offering free tickets to children and students, FamilyJam will be FREE for all participants, however advance registration will be required through Schubert Club’s website.

FamilyJam: Third Coast Percussion

Landmark Center

Grammy-winning sensation Third Coast Percussion joins acclaimed composer Clarice Assad for the world premiere of her new percussion concerto, PLAY! Then, Mahler’s symphonic poem takes the audience on an extraordinary artistic journey.

Santa Rosa Symphony

Grammy-winning sensation, Third Coast Percussion, joins acclaimed composer Clarice Assad for the world premiere of her new percussion concerto, PLAY! Mahler’s Titan, a monumental symphony that is both enlightening and cathartic. It is a deeply personal work that takes you on a journey filled with the full range of human emotions and lush and complex textures. A work of symphonic virtuosity!

Mahler's Titan

Green Music Center

Grammy Award winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers and currently serve as ensemble-in-residence at Denison University.

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Third Coast Percussion joins forces with the groundbreaking choreography of Movement Art Is (Lil Buck and Jon Boogz), for an intimate, evening-length program that explores the duality of human nature. At once intensely personal and fiercely virtuosic, two disparate styles of street dance blend seamlessly with new music by Jlin and Tyondai Braxton, as well as Third Coast Percussion’s critically-acclaimed arrangements of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia.

Third Coast Percussion

Feb 27, 2025