Event Date
Percussion Ensemble, Chris Froh, director
Program
To be announced
Free
About the Artists
Percussionist Christopher Froh specializes in promoting and influencing the creation of new music through critically acclaimed performances and dynamic lectures. To date, he has premiered over 150 chamber and solo works by composers from 17 countries. His collaborations include some of the most significant composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chaya Czernowin, David Lang, Steve Mackey, John Adams, George Crumb, Liza Lim, Matthias Pintcher, and Keiko Abe. Froh has also worked extensively realizing percussion scores of player piano and fixed-media pieces by Conlon Nancarrow, a project that culminated in a solo recital at the Whitney Museum in New York City and featured solo performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2015. Froh has performed works for solo percussion at venues around the world including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the American Academy in Rome, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Harris Theater in Chicago, Hagia Irene in Istanbul, Kennedy Center, and concert halls throughout Japan. He has been featured with leading voices in chamber music including Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music at Menlo, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
The Percussion Ensemble studies and performs percussion chamber music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the study of standard and extended techniques for a broad range of percussion instruments. It presents public performance of significant works for percussion ensemble.