from left to right: (Samuel Burt, Nucleo Vega, Wes Crawford, Joanna Huling, Chris Graham, Justin Wolf)

Special thanks to Wes Crawford and Goucher College for having us perform at the Drumset and Percussion Camp.  We had a great time hanging out, performing, and chatting with the students!

Iktus Percussion hosts the third installment of The Firehouse New Music Series featuring:

PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LABORATORY
"Any Size Mirror is a Dictator”, an opera: workshop performance
http://www.panoplylab.org/

EXCLUSIVE OR
Sam Pluta: laptop/Jeff Snyder: analog synths/Federico Ughi: drums
http://www.sampluta.com/

DAVE SCANLON
guitarist of Killer BOB/Pet Bottle Ningen shreds solo
http://davescanlon.com/

PURE AIRNESS
"DOCTOR ROCKTAPUS HAS BEEN SHREDDING PURE AIRNESS ON STAGE FOR 9 YEARS AND OFF STAGE SINCE BIRTH. HIS PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN HAILED AS 'UTTERLY ASTOUNDING' AND 'A GLIMPSE INTO HEAVEN'".

The Firehouse Space
246 Frost St, Brooklyn (L to Graham Ave)
$10 admission
http://thefirehousespace.org/

THIS WILL BE POWERFUL AND WEIRD AND REAL
- Iktus Percussion

We're psyched to hit up the Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn with the righteous trio Concert Black and fellow percussionists ensemble, et al. This concert will feature stellar works by French spectralist Philippe Hurel, Bang on a Can member Julia Wolfe, and Iannis Xenakis' epic djembe trio Okho. Not to be missed!

Tuesday, March 26
doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, Brooklyn (click here for a map)
$15 in advance / $20 at the door
Click here to buy tickets! 

Iktus Percussion continues The Firehouse New Music Series with four of New York's most burning new music ensembles including Concert Black, Mariel Roberts, Duo Orfeo, and Radical 2.

Friday, March 1st, 8pm
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St, Brooklyn (click here for a map)
$10 admission

Concert Black formed in Brooklyn in 2011 after bonding over the music of George Crumb and Riskay at the ever unconventional Bang on a Can organization's summer institute. While all the members boast acute classical over-training, Domenica Fossati (flute) is steeped in the NYC Afrobeat scene, Lisa Dowling (bass) is also DJ Lil Miss Dolemite, and Owen weaver (drums) fronts as an electro-acoustic percussion artist and former thrasher. Together, they draw upon their diverse musical backgrounds for their song writing, improvisation, and commissioning of today's emerging composers.

Lisa Dowling, bass
Domenica Fossati, flute
Owen Weaver, percussion 

“Trailblazing” cellist Mariel Roberts (Feast of Sounds) is quickly gaining recognition as a deeply dedicated interpreter and performer of contemporary music. Recent performances have garnered praise for her “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” (American Composers Forum), as well as her ability to “couple youthful vision with startling maturity”. (InDigest Magazine). She holds degrees from both the Eastman School and the Manhattan School of Music, where she specialized in contemporary performance practice while studying with Alan Harris and Fred Sherry. Mariel performs internationally as a member of the Mivos String Quartet, and has performed with a variety of other ensembles in venues around the world as an advocate of living composers.

Duo Orfeo draws their repertoire largely from hidden and under-explored byways of western musical tradition both past and present—ranging from Renaissance lute and French Baroque harpsichord music to compositions by such modern masters as Arvo Pärt, Federico Mompou and Valentin Silvestrov—an ever-expanding body of music that includes many of their own arrangements of works written for other instruments as well as works written for the ensemble of guitar duo. They play this unique repertoire on classical guitars with an approach inspired by the tradition of Andres Segovia (which they learned from Phillip de Fremery, a guitarist and teacher who studied with Segovia and a true curator of his legacy) and also on vintage electric guitars through tube amplifiers, creating a new sound that is all their own by playing these instruments (normally associated with styles outside of classical music) with the finesse, clarity and focused touch of classical musicians.

Jamie Balmer, guitar
Joseph Ricker, guitar

Levy Lorenzo and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2) are an irrational, classification-defying duo that explores the intersection of theatric, percussive and electronic mediums. March 1 will feature compositions by Rick Burkhardt, Alexander Schubert, and custom electronics designed by Radical 2.