Percussion Plus Project to Perform at International Women's Brass Conference
June 9, 2003
June 9, 2003, Greencastle, Ind. - The Percussion Plus Project, ensemble-in-residence at the DePauw
University School of Music, will perform at the International Women's
Brass Conference at Illinois State University on June 20. The ensemble
will perform with internationally known tuba soloist Velvet Brown (seen in photo) in a work
by DePauw faculty member James Beckel, as well as premiering another
new work written for the group by Texas composer Alice Gomez.
Velvet Brown was the featured soloist with the Percussion Plus Project at concerts in February at DePauw and in Indianapolis, where the ensemble gave the premier performance of James Beckel's Concerto for Tuba and Percussion, a new work commissioned by the Percussion Plus Project. Professor Beckel is the principal trombonist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in addition to being a long-time member of the School of Music faculty.
The Percussion Plus Project is under the artistic leadership of Amy Lynn
Barber, dean of the School of Music (seen at right), and an internationally known
percussion artist. The ensemble specializes in contemporary chamber
music for unique combinations of percussion instruments with a guest
soloist. Soloists this season have included mezzo-soprano Paulette
Herbich from Vienna, Austria, and violinist Volodja Balzalorsky from
Ljubljana, Slovenia, in addition to Ms. Brown.
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