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Parrish Percussion Project

The Long Island Composers Alliance presents The Parrish Percussion Project: Process, Polyrhythm, and Performance Art, an evening of new music by contemporary composers.

Organized by composer George Cork Maul, The Parrish Percussion Project will feature works by five composers: Herbert A. Deutsch, Julie Mandel, Alexander Nohai-Seaman, Marga Richter, and Mr. Maul.

The composers will be present at the concert to discuss their work.

According to George Cork Maul, “For me, percussion is at the beginning of music. Before there was music there was rhythm; it is basic to our species. No other animal spontaneously moves to rhythm the way that we do.”

The instruments will include marimba, vibes, cymbal, synthesizers, drums, and piano. “It should be remembered that the piano is a percussion instrument,” adds Maul.

Six compositions will be performed by Sinopia Quartet, a two-piano, two-percussion group comprised of Julia Den Boer, Nick Gleason, Andrea Lodge, and Nick Woodbury. The four musicians met while in the graduate program in music at Stony Brook University. Another Stony Brook percussionist, Ryan Nestor, will join them.

The evening will end with a “Paint and Play” collaboration between painter Alan Bull and the musicians. In this piece, the painter paints what he hears and the musicians play what they see; the two mediums feed off each other.




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