Robert Blocker, Dean
ysm ensembles
Yale Percussion Group Robert van Sice, director
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Garth Neustadter b. 1986 Video by Kjell van Sice
Seaborne (2018) I. Above II. At III. Within
20-minute intermission Audience members are asked to refrain from mingling.
Kevin Zetina b. 1996
Coalescence (2021) World premiere
Alejandro Viñao b. 1951
Stress and Flow (2018) I. Bright and Dark II. The Sound Behind III. Luz y Sombra en Lindaraja
Toru Takemitsu 1930–1996
Rain Tree (1981)
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Artist Profiles Yale Percussion Group
Robert van Sice, director
Russel Fisher ’20MMA ’26DMA Jacob Gutierrez ’22MMA Sijia Huang ’22MM Makana Medeiros ’23MM Yukiko Nakamura ’23MMA Michael Yeung ’22MM
Robert van Sice, one of the world’s foremost performers of contemporary music for marimba, has premiered more than one hundred works throughout the world. He has appeared as a soloist with many major symphony orchestras as well as Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles, including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, and L’Itineraire in Paris. He has given recitals throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and the Far East, and has appeared as a soloist with renowned percussion ensembles Amadinda, Kroumata, Tambuco, Percussive Rotterdam, and Sō Percussion.
Founded in 1997 by Robert van Sice, the Yale Percussion Group has been called “something truly extraordinary” by composer Steve Reich. The ensemble is composed of talented and dedicated young artists who have come from around the world for graduate study at the Yale School of Music. In recent seasons, the YPG has performed in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Galapagos Art Space, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble won the Percussive Arts Society competition in 2009 and 2014. A concert in 2012 called “75/100” celebrated the birthdays of Steve Reich and John Cage. The Zankel Hall concert was part of the Yale in New York concert series. Members of the YPG have gone on to form such acclaimed ensembles as Sō Percussion and Sandbox. YPG alumni have also performed with such ensembles as Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two, the Carnegie Hall Academy Ensemble, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Van Sice has performed at such festivals as Ars Musica, Blossom, Darmstadt Course for New Music, Archipel, London Meltdown, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and others. He has given more than four hundred master classes in twenty-five countries and has released six CDs on the Etcetera, Mode, and New World labels. Van Sice is Lecturer in Percussion and Director of the Yale Percussion Group at the Yale School of Music, and is also on the faculties of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and the Curtis Institute of Music. For the past fifteen years, van Sice has collaborated with the Adams Corporation in the Netherlands in the design of a series of marimbas bearing his name.
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