Adam Sliwinski has penned a comprehensive year-in-review for the season just ended. Check it out here! 

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

“From Out a Darker Sea” conveys our experience of a multi-visit residency in the industrial north of England. Former mining towns are searching for a new identity and a way forward in the globalized present, while never forgetting the past.

We are touring the show in sacred spaces around the UK during November and December. Other than London, all of the locations were chosen because of their connection to industry.

Adam wrote about our process in The Big Issue.

See below for further dates.

The Guardian wrote a lovely review:

“…a haunting and often deeply moving requiem for an industry and its people.”

“****”

The project is sponsored by Forma, with funding from many partners. Learn more on Forma’s website.

Dates

• 22 November 2017
  —
  Derby Cathedral, Derby
  Presented by QUAD
  Support from Unite the Union
• 24 and 25 November 2017
  —
  St Giles Cripplegate, London
  Presented by the Barbican Centre
• 27 November 2017
  —
  St John the Baptist Church, Newcastle
  Book Tickets
• 28 November 2017
  —
  In conversation with Amber Films
  The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle
  Book Tickets
• 30 November 2017
  —
  Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn
  Presented by the Bureau Centre for Arts and Mid Pennine Arts
  Book Tickets
• 2 December 2017
  —
  St George’s Church, Deal, Kent
  Presented by Deal Festival of Music & the Arts
  Book Tickets
• 5 December 2017
  —
  All Souls Church, Cheriton, Kent
  Presented by Strange Cargo
  Book Tickets

On Thursday, September 7th, we joined The National on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to perform “Day I Die” from their new Album “Sleep Well Beast.” What a thrill to perform on national television at the Ed Sullivan Theater!

We contributed some typical Sō Percussion color to the new album, which has just been released September 8th.

Our summer institute (SoSI) approaches! Check out our SoSI page for more information.

If you can’t make it in person, most of these events will be live-streamed from Sō Percussion’s Facebook Page: facebook.com/sopercussion. 

Please Join us for our fourth annual benefit and online auction!

Thursday, June 8th – 7pm

Honoring Limor Tomer
LE POISSON ROUGE
158 BLEECKER STREET
NEW YORK CITY

Performances by Sō, Theo Bleckmann, and Wolfgang

After party at 10pm featuring Round Peg Square Hole

RSVP to so@sopercussion.com

Tickets to main benefit $300 each

Tickets to after party $25 each (already included for main benefit attendees)

Purchase below! (If ordering more than six tickets, fill in custom amount below and send us an email. Also, let us take you out to coffee sometime, because you are awesome!)

If you can’t make it, we’re also running an online auction leading up to the benefit!

TED Talk: Bryce Dessner, Music for Wood and Strings

Performance at the TED conference in Vancouver, BC, February 2016.

We were honored and delighted to present an excerpt from Bryce Dessner’s work for the audience at TED 2016. Keeping in line with the ethos of the TED organization and community, we brought this unique piece with its newly designed instruments to show some of what’s going on in contemporary music.

Performing in this amazing venue was exciting enough, but we were surprised to realize that some pretty heavy hitters were in the audience as well!

SŌ PERCUSSION TO PLAY FREE CONCERT IN RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM

Having just wowed audiences at the Lincoln Center Festival this summer, acclaimed ensemble SŌ Percussion will offer the first of two free performances in Princeton as part of their Edward T. Cone Residency at Princeton University. On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 7:30PM in Richardson Auditorium at Alexander Hall, the community has the incredible opportunity to engage in an unparalleled range of music—from John Cage’s Living Room Music transforming household items into instruments, to the world premiere of Emeritus Professor Paul Lansky’s Springs. Also on the program is Taxidermy, specially written for Princeton alum and Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, as well as the ensemble’s first major commission: David Lang’s the so-called laws of nature. Tickets are required for this free concert. Reservations are available online at tickets.princeton.edu or at the door (Richardson Auditorium Box Office) the day of the concert.

The anticipation of a world premiere performance of a composer as esteemed and experienced in percussion writing as Paul Lansky already is much cause for excitement. Yet SŌ Percussion cannot help but add some humor into the mix of such an occasion. It seems fitting to a group always fusing whimsy with earnestness that “the ensemble’s first major commission, Mr. Lang’s the so-called laws of nature, balances humor and poise” (The New York Times), unearthing unexpected beauty from a row of “carefully tuned flower pots.” In juxtaposing the astounding wit, surprise and charm of finding music in everyday items with the masterful scores of some of the most celebrated composers in recent history, the evening will be particularly positioned to engage and welcome music lovers of all backgrounds.  Or, as SŌ Percussion’s Adam Sliwinski succinctly puts it, this program is simply “a lot of fun.”

SŌ Percussion’s second free concert as part of their residency will be a celebration of Steve Reich, including a pre-concert discussion with the composer, on March 14, 2017. Tickets for that event are not yet available.

Sō is incredibly grateful to Chamber Music America for their commissioning of Paul Lansky’s new piece.  This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

LISTING INFORMATION

SŌ PERCUSSION, Princeton University Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence

WHEN:                  Friday, September 16, 2016 at 7:30PM

WHAT:                    PAUL LANSKY Springs (WORLD PREMIERE); CAROLINE 

SHAW Taxidermy; JOHN CAGE Living Room Music; DAVID LANG the so-called laws of nature

WHERE:                 Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton University

TICKETS:              Free admission.  Reservations are available online at tickets.princeton.edu or at the door (Richardson Auditorium Box Office) the day of the concert.

Join us for Sō Percussion’s Third Annual Benefit,
honoring special guests Steve Reich and members of Nexus Percussion.

Tuesday, May 17th – 7pm

BRIC House Ballroom

Brooklyn, NY

Reserve tickets at https://sopercussion.com/benefit/
or RSVP to so@sopercussion.com