Sō Percussion presents A Brooklyn Percussion Extravaganza at Roulette Intermedium and Live Stream! 

Part of the Brooklyn Bound concert series 

Saturday, February 5, 2022 starting at 6:00pm

Featuring 
Sō Percussion –  Colleen Bernstein – Kasey Blezinger, Shelby Blezinger-McCay (Troika Percussion) – BOROGOSAKAGU (Rogerio Boccato, Kaoru Watanabe, Sameer Gupta) – Victor Caccese (Sandbox Percussion) with James “Banks” Davis – Recap Quartet – Khuentertainment – Beth Meyers 

Performing the work of: 
Jason Treuting – Julius Eastman – Andy Akiho –  Lesley Flanigan – Yvette Jackson ––Susan Marshall –  Darian Donovan Thomas 

For seven years, Sō Percussion has been running a loft series from their studio in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard neighborhood. In this special marathon evening, percussionists from different parts of Brooklyn’s rich percussion scene converge to showcase all things percussion at Roulette. 

Celebrating the release of Jason Treuting’s “Nine Numbers” album on Cantaloupe Music, and culminating in a group rendition of Julius Eastman’s Stay on It, this concert places traditions like Trinidadian steel drums and percussion traditions from Japan, Brazil, and India alongside contemporary percussion chamber music for an eclectic, genre-loaded event.  

Beginning at 6:00pm, the concert will be a casual marathon-style event where the audience can come and go throughout.

Purchase Tickets for both In Person and Live Stream Attendance HERE!

Roulette Intermedium’s COVID safety protocols. Proof of Vaccination REQUIRED to enter. Masks Required

*** Should this show need to be rescheduled or cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, all tickets sales will be refunded. ***

6-7pm
Sō Percussion | Khuentertainment | Victor Caccesse | Colleen Bernstein

7-8pm
Jason Treuting & Beth Meyers | Borogusakagu (Kauro Watanabe, Sameer Gupta, and Rogerio Boccato) | Recap Quartet

8-9pm
Sō Percussion | Victor Caccesse | Colleen Bernstein | Troika Percussion | Khuentertainment | Borogusakagu (Kauro Watanabe, Sameer Gupta, and Rogerio Boccato) | Recap Quartet

 

So Percussion is thrilled to announce Brooklyn born Haitian-American flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim as the ensemble’s inaugural Andrew W. Siegel Composition Fellow. A two-year appointment, the Fellowship honors an emerging composer whose work demonstrates extraordinary promise, and who will receive support and collaborative development in the creation of a new work, culminating in a premiere and subsequent touring of the piece by Sō Percussion. Nathalie and Sō will work together throughout the next season, exploring and developing a sonic language and then workshopping this new project together. The resulting composition will premiere at Princeton University in September 2021, and Sō will continue to tour and document the work in the 21/22 season, and beyond.

Click here to learn more about the Andrew W. Siegel Fellowship. To read the full press release, click here.

Video Recording of Steve Reich’s DRUMMING with NEXUS, Sō Percussion, and Friends!

Nexus and Sō Percussion are so excited to join together to make a historical video recording of Steve Reich’s Drumming. It is such a rare opportunity to gather up two of the world’s best percussion groups to celebrate Drumming turning 50 years old. This fabulous team includes Nexus, Sō, Yumi Tamashiro, Daisy Press, Beth Meyers, and Alex Sopp. We are asking you to join us in this historical event by contributing what you can to make this project come to life! We need money to cover the cost of making the video recording (video, audio, and record label production).

As some of you might know, Russell Hartenberger and Bob Becker are both original members in Steve Reich and Musicians–a group which Reich himself performed in, premiered the majority of the Reich repertoire, and toured the world together for decades. Russell and Bob learned Drumming directly from Reich and for us who have heard them in concerts, we can attest to that fact that they have perfected the art of phasing! The earlier renditions of Drumming were mostly taught by rote; Russell and Bob were among the most important figures for establishing the piece as a part of the percussion repertoire and have carried the torch of imparting wisdom on this work in the past five decades.

Together, this world-class line up is going to make history and we invite you to be part of this history making project. Your donation is what makes this possible.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR FIFTH ANNUAL SŌ PERCUSSION BENEFIT

HONORING SARA COFFEY

6:30PM, THURSDAY, JUNE 7

$300 TICKET*

(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 BLEEKER STREET
NEW YORK CITY

RSVP BY MAY 24 TO SO@SOPERCUSSION.COM

BUY TICKETS HERE!

*ADMISSION TO NIGHT OF AWESOMENESS INCLUDED

9PM, NIGHT OF AWESOMENESS FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY:
(Doors at 8:30PM, $20/ticket)

BALÚN
GREY MCMURRAY
DAMSEL
SANDBOX PERCUSSION
DITHER
BOBBY PREVITE
SHARA NOVA
& SŌ PERCUSSION