Sō returns to SOU for an eclectic chamber concert full of new works!

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.

Amid the Noise with students!

“Amid the Noise” residency with participants from MSU

ONEPPO CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES – This group of YSM alums “has helped to ignite an explosive new enthusiasm for percussion music old and new” (The New York Times).

The TU Department of Music guest artist residency with the world-renowned Sō Percussion ensemble concludes “Amid the Noise” performed by members of Sō Percussion and the TU Percussion Ensemble

Jason Treuting’s “Amid the Noise” at the Big Ears Festival with some of our friends! Sō will be joined by Kronos Quartet, Shodekeh Talifero, Beth Meyers, as well as students from UT Knoxville!

We are playing the big stage at big ears for an evening of our album with Caroline Shaw, “Let the Soil Play its Simple Part” !

Our third concert at Big Ears Festival will feature works by Angelica Negron, Nathalie Joachim, Julia Wolfe! We will be joined by our friends from the Kronos Quartet!

Performance of Dark Full Ride, Note to Self, Vodalities, and Go Placidly with Haste! Sō is excited to be joined by Shodekeh and students from Arkansas State University!

Sō will give a free concert at Princeton as the Edward T Cone Performers-in-Residence! We are excited to be joined by Alicia Olatuja as well as Princeton Students!

Performance of Dark Full Ride, Note to Self, Vodalities, and Go Placidly with Haste! Sō is excited to be joined by students from Park City High School!

Now in its ninth season, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn!

Our debut at the Elbphilhamonie in Hamburg with Caroline Shaw!

Join us for Sō’s UK premiere featuring Angelica Negron, Bryce Dessner, and Caroline Shaw!

Sō at Art Park!

Join us as Sō Percussion performs in an annual concert officially kicking off the Sō Percussion Summer Institute 2022!

Sō Percussion performs at the Newport Classical Music Festival on July 12, 2022! Two Performances Only!
2:30 P.M. (matinee) & 6:00 P.M. (evening)

Join SōSI Participants in a local performance at the Princeton Record Exchange!

SōSI percussionists premiere works by SōSI composers at Small World Coffee!

Join the SōSI 2022 Participants as they perform music by students of the Princeton University PhD Program!

Join SōSi and the Wildflower Composers for a FREE concert at the Princeton Public Library!

Join us in a FREE concert at the Forum in the Lewis Arts Center celebrating the music of Julius Eastman!

Join us in an outdoor preview of a new work by Michael Gordon performed by SōSI Participants and students of the Michigan University Percussion Department!

Just us in a FREE Concert showcasing Nine Numbers by Jason Treuting at the CoLab in the Lewis Arts Complex!

Please join us as we conclude SōSI 2022! Summer Institute Closing Concert – Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Sō Percussion joins the annual “Our Festival” (in Finnish: Meidän Festivaali) which is renowned for its fresh approach to the arts and crossover events.

Our first Brooklyn Bound of the season features works and performances by Soo Yeon Lyuh, Bora Yoon, and Sō Percussion.

Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence Sō Percussion present an evening of new percussion pieces, a world premiere, and the work of newly appointed faculty member Nathalie Joachim

Free & open to the public! Join us on Friday, September 23, at 7:30 pm, for a performance by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and musician Caroline Shaw and Grammy Award-winning percussion ensemble Sō Percussion

Sō Percussion is your guide for intriguing journeys to new worlds of sound. The adventurous percussion group is joined by groundbreaking beatboxer Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero.

A release party for our newest album on So Percussion Editions: Darian Donovan Thomas’ “Individuate”

Join us as world-class artists take over the new David Geffen Hall, turning every corner into a stage. Sō Performs Julia Wolfe’s “Forbidden Love”

Experience their awe-inspiring work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning musician, Caroline Shaw, featuring songs from their recent album Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part (Nonesuch).

Sō Percussion and Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw combine forces for a powerful new set of co-composed music in Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part.

The first of our two part residency this year, Sō performs works for percussion and electronics by ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN, NATHALIE JOACHIM, and DAN TRUEMAN

Thuringia Bach Festival: Sō Percussion & Caroline Shaw continue their tour of Narrow Sea in Germany!

Sō Percussion performs with Caroline Shaw at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Spain

The Sō Percussion Collaborative Workshop ends of 9-day workshop with 3 hours of Live music starting at 5:00pm ET.

Tune in at 7:00 PM ET on January 27, 2021: Sō Percussion with guests Angélica Negron and Darian Thomas. Register Required! Register here – https://bfplny.com/newsoundslive

We don’t know when concerts will open back up again! But we are grateful to these wonderful presenters who booked us this spring, and we’re hoping we can get out there. Click on the event to see them all!

Our first live show together in a year! Watch online.

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Gone
CAROLINE SHAW Taxidermy
VIJAY IYER Torque
JULIE WOLFE Forbidden Love

Music of Julia Wolfe and Kendall Williams

We are delighted to premiere Go Placidly with Haste Amid the Noise by Jason Treuting for you as our opening concert on July 11, 2021 at 8pm ET!

The Sō Percussion Summer Institute closes our 13th annual festival with 4 hours of Live music starting at 5:00pm ET culminating in the projects created within the past two weeks!

Works by Angélica Negrón, Kendall Williams, Shodekeh Talifero, Jason Treuting, and Julia Wolfe

Sō Percussion are joined by guest artist beatboxer/vocal percussionist Shodekeh Talifero for a FREE concert to celebrate the Department of Music’s first live concert since the pandemic.

Works by Bryce Dessner, Shodekeh Talifero, and Angélica Negrón

Louis Langrée and the CSO are joined by 2015 MusicNOW collaborators Sō Percussion, who shine with their unconventional instrumentation in David Lang’s ‘man made.’

For this fascinating concert, their trademark sound is enhanced by exciting guest artists, including vocalists, an innovative beatboxer, and steel drummers in music by leading composers of our day.

So Percussion and Caroline Shaw perform two new projects together: the song cycle “Narrow Sea,” and a selection of new collaborative songs.

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

New Songs (title TBA)

plus recent works by Jason Treuting, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade, Wally Gunn, and others.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 season, Sō Percussion is piloting a new International Residency program. In our first year of the initiative, Sō will travel to Trinidad in February 2020 during Carnival season.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 season, Sō Percussion is piloting a new International Residency program. In our first year of the initiative, Sō will travel to Trinidad in February 2020 during Carnival season.

The Quartet Reimagined

So Percussion at Williams College – The Quartet Reimagined. Works by Reich, Wolfe, Dessner, Viet Cuong, and Susan Marshall.

An evening of Steve Reich and Bryce Dessner in Paris!

Featuring: composer Andrea Mazzariello and Jason Treuting performing together as “am-jt”, in support of their new album “make a wish then build a ladder.”

We return for our second weekend at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville TN!

Musical futurists Sō Percussion return and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 follows the mystery of creation.

JULIA WOLFE Forbidden Love
JASON TREUTING Amid the Noise

An installment of our concert series curated by the Resonant Bodies Festival.

With an expansive sonic imagination and “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” (The New Yorker) So Percussion has redefined the scope of the percussion ensemble.

Sō Percussion invites you to celebrate visionary programmer Joseph Melillo and lauded composer Julia Wolfe at our 2020 Gala.

Announcing SōSI 2020 Online, a new summer course from Sō Percussion!

We are thrilled to begin the 12th annual Sō Percussion Summer Institute “Online” with our Sō Percussion Summer Institute Opening Concert – Live! Join us in watching Jason Treuting’s Amid the Noise!

The Sō Percussion Summer Institute is excited to partner with the Princeton Public Library to host a live performance and talk! More information to come very soon!

The Sō Percussion Summer Institute Closes our 12th annual festival with 3 hours of Live music culminating in the projects created within the past two weeks! (July 12-25, 2020)

Now in its seventh year, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. This year we’ll be online on our Facebook and Youtube channels

Amid the Noise, Vijay Iyer, Donnacha Dennehy, Caroline Shaw.

new works for the Edward T. Cone Artists-in-Residence by Princeton Ph.D. fellows.

The Keyboard Re-imagined

So performs two pieces by Carlos R. Carrillo, assistant professor of composition and theory at U of Illinois.

UI Percussion Ensemble with Sō Percussion: Amid the Noise

Our “Living Room Music” show!

Amid the Noise and other favorites.

The complete “Drumming” in Boston!

Jason Treuting’s “Amid the Noise” with UCSB participants, works by Vijay Iyer, Suzanne Farrin, and Donnacha Dennehy

“The Keyboard Reimagined” – with works by Vijay Iyer, Caroline Shaw, Donnacha Dennehy, Suzanne Farrin, Jason Treuting, and Dan Trueman

“Amid the Noise” at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Our “Living Room Music” show.

“From Out a Darker Sea,” our multimedia exploration of the Northeast of England, an area once teeming with industrial activity which is now gone.

“Amid the Noise” at Stanford

So performs “amid the noise,” Vijay Iyer’s virtuosic “Torque,” Steve Reich, and Caroline Shaw.

From Out a Darker Sea, also guest composer Nicole Lizee, new Julia Wolfe piece!

NationalSawdust+ presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon’s new literary-music series, Against the Grain, featuring award-winning writers Min Jin Lee and Tracy K. Smith, and So Percussion.

So performs the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s “Forbidden Love,” co-comissioned by the LA PHil.

CONSTRUCTION is a collaboration between Susan Marshall & Company and Sō Percussion. In it, music and dance are two separate systems that coexist in a symbiotic and, at times, conflicted relationship.

The programme The Keyboard Reimagined includes the European premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s piece Broken Unison, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Cork Opera House, as well as other pieces.

Bryce Dessner’s “Music for Wood and Strings,” others.

Sō Percussion Opening Concert
McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Center
FREE and open to the public

Troika, Russell Fisher, Matt Overbay
McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Center
FREE and open to the public

David Degge (percussion, hammered dulcimer) with Cristina David Degge with Cristina Altamura (piano)
McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Center

McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Center

SōSI at Small World Coffee
14 Witherspoon St.
SōSI percussionists premiere works by SōSI composers
FREE and open to the public

SōSI at the Princeton Record Exchange
20 South Tulane St.
Selections To Be Determined

Each year since the beginning of SoSI, we have invited Princeton PhD composers to write new works for SoSI students. This concert is the culimation of a week of rehearsals, coachings, and workshops.
FREE

The artwalk is a musical and visual tour around the amazing outdoor art pieces on Princeton’s campus. Join us down at Bloomberg Hall at 5pm for the Sol LeWitt, walk with us for the next hour around Princeton!

SōSI at the Princeton Public Library
Albert Hinds Plaza
55 Witherspoon St.
Selections To Be Determined

Terry Riley: “In – C” in the Forum
Lewis Arts Complex – The Forum
136 Alexander St.
FREE

Each year at SōSI, Sō Percussion reads participant works that the students composed for us.
FREE

SōSI Closing Concert! A selection of masterful 21st Century works for percussion.
FREE

Alongside NEXUS, Sō Percussion performs Steve Reich’s Drumming!

Some of our newest music, including Julia Wolfe’s String Quartet “Forbidden Love!”

Sō Percussion, Princeton University’s Edward T. Cone Artists-in-Residence, perform a FREE concert that explores the incredible range of percussion instruments.

Now in its sixth year, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn.

So Percussion performs the music of Steve Reich, David Lang, Bryce Dessner, and Jason Treuting’s “Amid the Noise.”

So Percussion performs the music of Jason Treuting along with dance choreographed by John Heginbotham. Stay tuned for performance details!

Sō Percussion celebrates the New Amsterdam release of Dan Trueman’s Song That Are Hard To Sing (out on November 15). FREE Event.

Sō’s collaborative project FROM OUT A DARKER SEA is re-envisioned as a weeklong art installation in the Princeton CoLab. This FREE installation opening features a live performance.

From pioneering percussion works by Varèse, Cage, and Reich to 21st-century music written expressly for this visionary ensemble, Sō Percussion takes you on a fascinating journey as only they can.

Groundbreaking percussion quartet Sō Percussion presents a program of 20th century American classics, new works, and original compositions by their own members.

Two powerhouse new-music ensembles come together for an evening of premieres, including a work by Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair Philip Glass.

A journey in ambience, rhythm, and texture featuring composers from California’s past and present exploring works by Lou Harrison, Steve Reich, Nathaniel Stookey, and Mason Bates.

Five-time Grammy-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw is joined by one of today’s leading percussion quartets, So Percussion. This contemporary pairing brings an exciting freshness to meaning collaboration.

The Symposium will open with a performance of There Might Be Others (link is external) and showcase of works on Thursday evening April 12, 2018.

Sō Percussion is a percussion-based music organization that creates and presents new collaborative works to adventurous and curious audiences in order to to unite people and forge deep social bonds.

Program includes:

Jason Treuting: Nine Numbers 4 (NYC Premiere)

Program is:
Nicole Lizzee: White Label Experiment

Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet
Paul Lansky: Springs
Jason Treuting: Mallet Quartet
– Intermission –
Caroline Shaw: Taxidermy
Vijay Iyer: TORQUE (World Premiere)
Cage: Third Construction

Program includes:

Vijay Iyer: TORQUE
Caroline Shaw: Taxidermy
Donnacha Dennehy: Broken Unison
– Intermission –
Jason Treuting: Amid The Noise

Vijay Iyer: TORQUE
Caroline Shaw: Taxidermy
Donnacha Dennehy: Broken Unison
– Intermission –
Jason Treuting: Amid The Noise

Jason Treuting: Amid the Noise
Paul Lansky: Springs
Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet
– Intermission –
Julia Wolfe: Dark Full Ride
Viet Cuong: Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine
Bryce Dessner: Music for Wood and Strings

David Lang’s concerto “man made,” featuring Sō Percussion with the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra

Our program of Caroline Shaw’s “Narrow Sea” and George Crumb’s “Winds of Destiny” with the legendary singer Dawn Upshaw and pianist Gil Kalish.

The Bard Conservatory Celebrates Joan Tower’s 80th birthday, featuring So Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and more!

Eclectic and exciting program! Eric Cha-Beach, Juri Seo, Joan Tower, Vijay Iyer, Jason Treuting, Angelica Negron, Pauline Oliveros, and Iannis Xenakis.

In celebration of Joan Tower’s 80th birthday, Conservatory faculty members perform works by the composer, including three world premieres.

So Percussion at the New College of Florida

The Brattleboro Music Center’s new Season Guest Concert series opens Saturday, Oct. 20, with Sō Percussion, a group dedicated to promoting the power of music to unite people and forge deep social bonds.

“Living Room Music” program: Cage, Cuong, Shaw, Oliveros, Cha-Beach, Treuting

Steve Reich – Music for Pieces of Wood
Caroline Shaw – Taxidermy
Bryce Dessner – Music for Wood and Strings
Jason Treuting – Amid the Noise

Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood
Caroline Shaw Taxidermy
Bryce Dessner Music for Wood and Strings
Jason Treuting Amid the Noise

So Percussion’s debut in Latvia, at the Zemlinka Festival.

A GUN SHOW

An exploration of society’s fascination with guns through music, text and movement in collaboration with director Ain Gordon and choreographer Emily Johnson.

Join us in our response to the current political climate for a night of positive action, deep listening, ecstatic sound, and community.

Join So Percussion on January 28th, 2017 for a weekend residency at Wright State University w/ guest artists Michael Burritt, Nick Angelis, Rob Ferguson, and the Matrix Performing Arts. Free/open to the public.

A Gun Show is an exploration of issues such as race, economic inequality, public safety and constitutional rights through music, text and movement. Free and open to the public.

The innovative ensemble Sō Percussion explores America’s fraught relationship with guns in their newly theatrically staged work “A Gun Show.”

Join Sō Percussion in an evening performance full of some of their staple repertoire and recent commissions during their residency at Luther College, IA.

A Gun Show is an exploration of issues such as race, economic inequality, public safety and constitutional rights through music, text and movement.

Sō Percussion, Princeton University’s Edward T. Cone Artists-in-Residence, will host a celebration of iconic American composer Steve Reich on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at Richardson Auditorium.

The Stoop at BRIC Arts | Media House is a public cultural gathering space featuring free, drop-in programming, and offering a place to sit, observe, and participate in multi-disciplinary work.

Here are the events for the Ninth SōSI! Participant and faculty concerts, performances around the Princeton community, lots of fun…

“The New York standard for percussion innovation.”

– New Yorker on Sō Percussion

Sō Percussion takes the New York premiere of “man made” by David Lang with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.

“This group plays with an irresistible vitality.”

– Washington Post

Come join Sō Percussion for an after party showing of some intimate percussion music.

Come join artists in residence So Percussion for an evening of percussion works by old and new composers!

Praised by the New Yorker for their “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” Sō’s adventurous spirit is written into the DNA passed down from composers like John Cage and Steve Reich.

Now in its fourth year, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. Casual and intimate, the concerts feature us and emerging ensembles.

So performs John Luther Adams, John Cage, and a set with Man Forever as part of this eclectic festival!

From Out a Darker Sea is inspired by the denizens of Seaham, England, a coastal town that has struggled to reinvent itself after the crushing loss of its mining industry.

Please join us for this U.S. premiere!

Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish and Sō Percussion perform an unforgettable program of music that focuses on the expansive limits of song and collaboration.

With their genre-blending productions and sensational interpretations of modern classics, Sō Percussion has redefined the scope and role of the modern percussion ensemble.

David Lang’s virtuosic percussion concerto “man made,” crafted from found objects takes the stage with it’s first international performance in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group So Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

Brooklyn-based contemporary percussion group Sō Percussion present an audio-visual exploration of the social history of British coal mining in From Out a Darker Sea.

“Percussion Your Face Off!”

So Performs our current repertoire.

David Lang’s “man made” with the Winnepeg Symphony.

Bryce Dessner’s “Music for Wood and Strings,” Steve Reich “Drumming,” David Lang’s “the so-called laws of nature.”

Reich, Dessner

Steve Reich, Dan Trueman, John Cage, Bryce Dessner

Steve Reich portait concert: Sextet and Drumming

Reich, Kotche, Cage, Dessner

Free concert of Steve Reich’s “Drumming” with UW students.

Bryce Dessner, Shara and Sō’s “Timeline”

So plays new music by Glenn Kotche and Shara Worden at Carnegie.

“Radical Repatterning” – Sō presents Bryce Dessner’s “Music for Wood and Strings” at TED 2016.

Brooklyn Bound with Excelsis and There Might Be Others

A GUN SHOW
An exploration of society’s fascination with guns through music, text and movement in collaboration with director Ain Gordon and choreographer Emily Johnson

Movement-based realization of Terry Riley’s seminal masterpiece IN C, performed with a live score by Dan Trueman in collaboration with Mobius Percussion and Sō.

Our collaboration with Buke and Gase!
On the Boston Celebrity Series Stave Sessions

Concert geared towards young children, featuring Sō.

Sō Percussion featuring Dan Trueman

Another installment in our “Brooklyn Bound” series. Free!

Our annual benefit honoring Steve Reich and the members of Nexus Percussion!

PRISM and Sō Percussion premiere a new work by Steven Mackey and a new arrangement of Donnacha Dennehy’s “The Pale.”

PRISM and Sō Percussion premiere a new work by Steven Mackey and a new arrangement of Donnacha Dennehy’s “The Pale.”

Steve Reich’s “Drumming” with Sō Percussion and guests.

Part of our “Trilogy” series at the Lincoln Center Festival: Reich, Dessner, and Lang.

Sō Percussion’s “Trilogy” at the Lincoln Center Festival: Xenakis, Ergün, Trueman.

Sō Percussion’s “Trilogy” at Lincoln Center Festival: Cage, Lansky, Mackey.

Sō performs with Shara Nova and Buke and Gase at this huge outdoor rock festival.

World Premiere of one of our newest original projects, a reflection on the people and history of the North East of England.

SŌ Percussion will offer the first of two free performances in Princeton as part of their Residency at Princeton, including the world premiere of Paul Lansky’s ‘Springs’, commissioned by Chamber Music America.

Sō previews our newest theatrical work “A Gun Show” in Vermont.

Brooklyn Bound is Sō Percussion’s homegrown studio series concert. Concerts are free with suggested donation.

So performs Harrison and Cage with violinist Niklas Walentin at the Phillips Collection.

Experience Reich’s breakthrough masterpiece for percussion and voice, inspired by the composer’s studies in West Africa.

Hometown hero Josh Quillen joins his Sō Percussion in music by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang with the Akron Symphony.

Bryce Dessner portrait concert, including our performance of his “Music for Wood and Strings.”

So performs Reich’s “Three Tales” with ICE and David Robertson conducting.

So Percussion and Shara Nova: “Timeline”

Our newest theatrical program “A Gun Show.”

So member Adam Sliwinski performs Dan Trueman’s etudes for the “bitKlavier,” his Prepared Digital Piano.
So Percussion plays Dan’s “120BPM,” pianist Cristina Altamura performs Bach.

Performance with JACK String Quartet