Artists: Composers and Performers
Gloria Cheng, pianist
Where you can hear her: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm, and her solo piano recital on Thursday, June 2 at 7:30pm, both at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
"An invaluable new-music advocate and a preferred collaborator of composers like Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen" [The New York Times], Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pianist GLORIA CHENG has long been devoted to creative collaborations with composers of our time. She has been a concerto soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and Pierre Boulez, and on its acclaimed Green Umbrella series with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Oliver Knussen. As a recitalist she has performed at the Ojai Music Festival (where she began her association with Boulez in 1984), Chicago Humanities Festival, William Kapell Festival, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, and annually on Los Angeles' Piano Spheres series. She has premiered countless works that include John Williams' Prelude and Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Dichotomie (of which she is the dedicatee), and John Adams' Hallelujah Junction for two pianos (written for her and Grant Gershon). She was awarded the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) GRAMMY for her 2008 recording, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutosławski, and received a second nomination for her 2013 disc, The Edge of Light: Messiaen/Saariaho.
Timothy McAllister, saxophonist
Where you can hear him: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Described as “an exemplary soloist” by Gramophone Magazine, and “a titan of contemporary music and the instrument, in general” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer), acclaimed saxophonist TIMOTHY McALLISTER is a premier soloist and a member of the GRAMMY® winning PRISM Quartet, with over fifty recordings and two-hundred premières to his credit of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. McAllister has appeared with more than forty of the world's most prominent orchestras and ensembles in over twenty countries. His rise to international recognition began with his world premiere performance of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto in 2013 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer in the Sydney Opera House, and his recordings of both the composer's "City Noir” and the Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony and conductor David Robertson garnered a 2015 GRAMMY® Award for “Best Orchestral Performance.”
John Williams, composer
Where you can hear his work: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
In a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and numerous Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices.
Steven Stucky, composer
Where you can hear his work: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Steven Stucky (1949–2016) was one of America’s most highly regarded and frequently performed contemporary composers. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for his Second Concerto for Orchestra, he was a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, a director of New Music USA, a board member of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, besides being active as a conductor, writer, lecturer, and teacher. As he told the Aspen Times in 2013, “I don’t think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being. I’m trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did – open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.”
John Corigliano, composer
Where you can hear his work: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano's scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, four Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award (“Oscar”) and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. Attentive listening to this music reveals an unconfined imagination, one which has taken traditional notions like "symphony" or "concerto" and redefined them in a uniquely transparent idiom forged as much from the post-war European avant garde as from his American forebears.
Gabriella Smith, composer
Where you can hear her work: Albany Symphony Season Finale on Saturday, June 4 at 7:30pm at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Gabriella Smith is a composer and environmentalist. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area playing and writing music, hiking, backpacking, and volunteering on a songbird research project. Whether for orchestras, chamber ensembles, voices, or electronics, Gabriella’s music comes from a love of play, exploring new sounds on instruments, building compelling musical arcs, and connecting listeners with the natural world. Recent highlights include the premiere of her organ concerto, Breathing Forests, written for James McVinnie and LA Phil, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen; and the release of her first full-length album, Lost Coast, with cellist Gabriel Cabezas, named one of NPR Music’s “26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)” and a “Classical Album to Hear Right Now” by The New York Times. Currently she is working on a version of Lost Coast for cello and orchestra, to be premiered by Gabriel Cabezas and LA Phil in May 2023, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Bobby Ge, composer
Where you can hear his work: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady on Friday, July 1
Bobby Ge is a Chinese-American composer and avid collaborator who seeks to create vivid emotional journeys that navigate boundaries between genre and medium. He has created multimedia projects with the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Scattered Players Theater Company, painters collective Art10Baltimore, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Current/recent projects include a First Music commission for the New York Youth Symphony, a 20min. piece for percussion and chamber orchestra for the Albany Symphony’s ‘Dogs of Desire’ ensemble, a multimedia work for Mind on Fire supported by New Music USA, and a solo piece for pianist Stephen Ai.
Andre Myers, composer
Where you can hear his work: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Jennings Landing in Albany on Saturday, July 2
Andre Myers (b.1973) is a composer and instructor of piano, composition and theory based in California's Inland Empire. Called “an insightful and skillful new voice” (Times Union), and “ingenious. . . powerful” (icareifyoulisten.com), his music mixes narrative drama, poetry, and meditations on color to create work that aspires to moments of honesty, poignancy, and depth.
Loren Loiacono, composer
Where you can hear her work: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Hutton Brickyards in Kingston on Sunday, June 19
The music of Loren Loiacono (b. 1989) has been described as “plush...elusive” (New York Times), “vivid and colorful” (Albany Times Union), “dreamy, lilting” (Pioneer Press), and “quirky and fun” (Bad Entertainment- Twin Cities). An emerging orchestral voice, she has received commissions and performances from such nationally esteemed ensembles as the Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra. She is a frequent collaborator of the Albany Symphony, serving as Mellon Composer-Educator-in-Residence for the 2017-18 season. In June 2018, the Albany Symphony premiered Loren's Concerto for Piano, written for Vicky Chow. In 2012, the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic premiered her Violin Concerto at St. Petersburg’s Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall, with Nicholas DiEugenio as soloist.
Jack Frerer, composer
Where you can hear his work: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Basilica Hudson on Friday, June 24
The “exuberant” and “delicious” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) music of Australian composer Jack Frerer has been performed across the US, Australia, Europe and Asia by ensembles including the Nashville Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Australian and Metropolitan Youth Orchestras, Decoda, Metropolis, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the wind ensembles of UT Austin, UNT, MIchigan and Cornell. Jack is the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Morton Gould Composers Award from ASCAP, the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award, the Brian Israel Prize from the Society for New Music, and winner of both the Juilliard Orchestra and Gena Raps Chamber Music competitions.
Natalie Draper, composer
Where you can hear her work: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Riverlink Park in Amsterdam on Sunday, July 3
Praised for her "individual and strong voice" (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine), Natalie Draper explores character and evocative sound-worlds in her music. Upcoming premieres include "Biking to Amsterdam, NY - Summer, 2022" (David Alan Miller and Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire ensemble in Troy, NY and Amsterdam, NY) and "A Study in Breathing: Allein zu dir" (Dianna Morgan, Christopher Frtizsche, and Anne Laver as part of Sonoma Bach's concert season in Sonoma, CA). Recent projects have included "The Bells" (Beth Willer & the NEXT Ensemble at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD), "Pattern Dances for Meantone Organ" (Anne Laver and dance students from School of the Arts in Rochester, NY), and "Fragile Music" (Kara Huber, Annie Daigle, and Lindy Tsai in Louisville, KY).
Takuma Itoh, Composer
Where you can hear his work: “Endangered” Chamber Performance on Saturday, June 4 at 9:30am at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and at Hudson Crossing Park in Schuylerville on Saturday, June 11
Takuma Itoh spent his early childhood in Japan before moving to Northern California where he grew up. His music has been described as "brashly youthful and fresh" (New York Times). Featured amongst one of "100 Composers Under 40" on NPR Music and WQXR, he has been the recipient of such awards and commissions as: the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Music Alive: New Partnerships grant with the Tucson Symphony, the Barlow Endowment, the Chamber Music America Classical Commission, the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize, six ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Leo Kaplan Award, the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, the Symphony in C Young Composer Competition, the New York Youth Symphony First Music, The New York Virtuoso Singers, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and the Renée B Fisher Foundation.
Tanner Porter, composer
Where you can hear her work: “Endangered” Chamber Performance on Saturday, June 4 at 9:30am at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Tanner Porter is a composer-performer and songwriter. In her “original art songs that are by turns seductive and confessional” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker), Tanner explores her passion for storytelling, often framing her music and words within the context of the natural landscapes she grew up in—the canyons, tides, and wildfires of the California coast. Tanner’s works have been commissioned and premiered by the Albany Symphony Orchestra with conductor David Alan Miller, the American Composers Orchestras Connecting ACO Community virtual series, the New York Youth Symphony with conductor Michael Repper (First Music program), Nu Deco Ensemble with conductor Jacomo Bairos, the University of Michigan’s University Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kenneth Kiesler, the Yale Philarmonia with conductor Julian Pellicano, and the Phillips Exeter Academy combined choir and chamber orchestra with conductor Rohan Smith.
Carlos Bandera, composer
Where you can hear his work: “Endangered” Chamber Performance on Saturday, June 4 at 9:30am at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Carlos Bandera is a composer who is fascinated by musical architecture and by the music of the past. His recent music explores these fascinations, often by placing a musical quotation, be it a phrase, scale, or sonority, within dense microtonal textures. Carlos’s music has been performed in the Faroe Islands, Scotland, Uzbekistan, China, and several spaces in the US, including Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall. He recently received the Underwood Commission from the American Composers Orchestra after his piece Lux in Tenebris was selected for the 2018 Underwood New Music Readings. Also in 2018, he attended CULTIVATE, where his piece Spirare was premiered, and attended Time of Music in Viitasaari, Finland, where he studied with Chaya Czernowin.
Christopher Theofanidis, Composer/teaching artist
Where you can hear him: Composer Workshop Masterclass on Thursday, June 2 at 2:00pm at Arts Center of the Capital Region
Christopher Theofanidis has had performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies, among many others. He has also served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006-7 season, for which he wrote a violin concerto for Sarah Chang.
Sandbox Percussion, artist
Where you can hear them: Sandbox Percussion Recital on Saturday, June 4 at 3:00pm at AI Center of Excellence in Troy, and at Inuksuit on Sunday, June 5 at 4:00pm at Riverfront Park in Troy, Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Hutton Brickyards in Kingston on Sunday, June 19
Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times, and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion has established themselves as a leading proponent of this generation of contemporary percussion chamber music. Brought together by their love of chamber music and the simple joy of playing together, Sandbox Percussion captivates audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. Through compelling collaborations with composers and performers, Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, and Terry Sweeney seek to engage a wider audience for classical music.
Jordan Taylor Hill, artist
Where you can hear him: Late Night Lounge on Friday, June 3 at 10:00pm at Table 41 Brewing in Cohoes, and at Riverlink Park in Amsterdam on Sunday, July 3
Jordan Taylor Hill is an artist rooted in traditional music from West Africa and the diaspora combined with todays sounds. His early influence in songwriting and performance is coupled in a unique way meant to equally inspire and entertain. Jordan offers traditional drum and dance workshops, performances, and private lessons. The native New Yorker began his musical career tape recording radio segments and instrumentals in his headphones in middle school. Since his first trip to Senegal, West Africa in 2011 his unique style of traditional drumming and songwriting has combined to deliver a fusion of Hip-Hop, World, and all things Afro.
Carol Daggs, artist
Where you can hear her: Late Night Lounge on Saturday, June 4 at 10:00pm at Lucas Confectionery in Troy
An accomplished vocalist and pianist, Miss Daggs successfully auditioned for and attended the 1999 International FAME Festival Center for Jazz Studies, Directed by trombonist and Grammy-winning Producer, Mr. Delfeayo Marsalis. Since then, Miss Daggs twice obliged invitation to sing with ensemble instructor and Saxophonist extraordinaire Mr. Donald Harrison at the former Sweet Basil - now Sweet Rhythm, in New York City. Additional honors include: an October 2002 guest spot on Albany, New York's - 90.3 fm radio WAMC's 'Performance Place' hosted by Mr. Paul Elisha, receiving a 2002 and 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts 'Strategic Opportunity Stipend' award, and attending the 2002 and 2005 'Jazz in July' summer workshop at UMASS/Amherst.
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, vocalist
Where you can hear her: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall
Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. As such, Ms. Fitz Gibbon has given U.S. premieres of rediscovered works by Baroque composers Francesco Sacrati, Barbara Strozzi, and Agostino Agazzari, as well by 20th century composers including Tadeusz Kassern, Roman Palester, and Jean Barraqué. She has also worked closely with numerous others, workshopping and premiering works by a wide range of composers including John Harbison, Kate Soper, Sheila Silver, David Hertzberg, Reena Esmail, Roberto Sierra, Anna Lindemann, and Pauline Oliveros.
Ruston Ropac, vocalist
Where you can hear her: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall
New York City-based, Southern California-bred soprano and composer-performer Ruston Ropac is a dynamic musician committed to exploring eclectic vocal soundscapes. An alumna of the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, she brings her artistry to contemporary chamber music, early music, opera, and beyond. In 2022, Ms. Ropac returns to the operatic stage to sing the role of Princess Bendova in the world premiere of Jed Bolipata’s musical comedy The Wages of Sin. Additional world premieres this year include Forrest Eimold’s You Without a Bodie and Christian-Frédéric Bloquert’s Imploding the Fantastic Dream at National Sawdust, works by Cole Reyes with his Vocal Collective at MISE-EN_PLACE, and repertoire by Keyin Lou, in a return to the composer’s concert series at Columbia University. She is also currently developing a crimson c(h)ord, a new opera for soprano and electronics.
Katie Hammon, vocalist and founder of Bear Grass
Where you can hear her: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Basilica Hudson on Friday, June 24
Katie grew up on a small island in Washington State's Puget Sound, and has created a life of music and event operations in upstate New York after studying music industry and event management in Albany. She is the owner of The Maples Estate, a wedding and event venue in Schoharie!
Andy Akiho, composer
Where you can hear his work: Sandbox Percussion Recital on Saturday, June 4 at 3:00pm at AI Center of Excellence in Troy
Andy Akiho is a “trailblazing” (Los Angeles Times) GRAMMY nominated composer whose bold works unravel intricate and unexpected patterns while surpassing preconceived boundaries of classical music. Known as “an increasingly in-demand composer” (The New York Times), Akiho has earned international acclaim for his large-scale works that emphasize the natural theatricality of live performance. The 2021-2022 season features the NYC premiere of Akiho’s double GRAMMY nominated work Seven Pillars for Sandbox Percussion and the world-premiere of a new commission for Imani Winds.
John Luther Adams, composer
Where you can hear his work: Inuksuit on Sunday, June 5 at 4:00pm at Riverfront Park in Troy
For John Luther Adams, music is a lifelong search for home—an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and remember our place within the larger community of life on earth. Living for almost 40 years in northern Alaska, JLA discovered a unique musical world grounded in space, stillness, and elemental forces. In the 1970s and into the ’80s, he worked full time as an environmental activist. But the time came when he felt compelled to dedicate himself entirely to music. He made this choice with the belief that, ultimately, music can do more than politics to change the world. Since that time, he has become one of the most widely admired composers in the world, receiving the Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy Award, and many other honors.
Sophia Subbayya Vastek, artist
Where you can hear her: VEG OUT in Downtown Troy on Sunday, June 5 at 11:30am
Based in Troy, NY, pianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek moves quietly between musical worlds and defies easy categorization. She has been described as performing with "passion and profound tenderness” (Second Inversion) and “serene strokes and lyrical beauty” (Brooklyn Rail). With tenderness and vulnerability as her guiding principles, Sophia creates music and spaces for music that are grounded in care. Her debut album Histories was released on innova Recordings in 2017 and was described as “both an homage to Vastek’s own individual histories but also a beautiful mosaic of the larger cultural intersections of our world—and how we weave those histories together through music.”
Grace Shryock, artist
Where you can hear her: TrailBlaze Quintet at Olana Historic Site in Hudson on Saturday, June 25 at 7:00pm
Grace Shryock is an oboist in the Albany Symphony and Principal English horn of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Shryock was the Acting English Horn player of the New York Philharmonic for their 2015-2019 seasons. Previously, she was the Acting English horn and Assistant Principal oboe with the Richmond Symphony. She has also made appearances with the Boston, Baltimore, Grand Rapids, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras, Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and The Knights, as well as many other orchestras on the East Coast. She can be heard on recordings by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Albany Symphony Orchestra — for which she served as principal oboe in the Grammy-nominated recording of Christopher Rouse’s Kabir Padavali — as well as in the scores to numerous feature films.
Viet Cuong, composer
Where you can hear his work: All of the FREE outdoor performances from June 11 through July 3
Called “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, the “irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) music of American composer Viet Cuong (b. 1990) has been commissioned and performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Eighth Blackbird, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sō Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Atlanta Symphony, Sandbox Percussion, Albany Symphony, PRISM Quartet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Dallas Winds, among many others. Viet’s music has been featured in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art, and Library of Congress, and his works for wind ensemble have amassed hundreds of performances worldwide, including at Midwest, WASBE, and CBDNA conferences. He was recently featured in The Washington Post‘s “21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow.”
Taína Asili, artist
Where you can hear her: Hutton Brickyards in Kingston on Sunday, June 19
Taína Asili is a New York-based Puerto Rican singer, filmmaker and activist carrying on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. Her music combines powerful vocals carrying themes of hope and liberation with an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin, reggae and rock. Asili’s music offers a sound that spans continents, exuding strength of Spirit, inspiring audiences at venues across the globe – From Carnegie Hall to the Women’s March on Washington to the main stage of San Francisco Pride. With an energetic horn section and infectious rhythms, Asili’s music urges people to get on their feet and dance to the rhythm of rebellion.
Wa Lika Band, artist
Where you can hear them: Hudson Crossing Park in Schuylerville on Saturday, June 11
Patrick Kasongo is a Capital Region musician that has been performing in festivities and social events in the region for more than a decade. His ensemble, Wa Lika, interprets Congolese Rumba and Seben, Akuaya and Soukous music. Patrick grew up in Kinshasa, Capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started playing music at a young age with a self-made one-string guitar like Diddley bows found in the US blues tradition.
Devesh Chandra, artist
Where you can hear him: Basilica Hudson on Friday, June 24
Devesh Chandra has been learning the Tabla since the age of 3. He has learned Northern Indian Classical Music by accompanying his mother, Veena Chandra. Devesh, the youngest of six children, grew up immersed in Indian music. His first spoken words were the syllables of tabla -Dha Dha Tita. Immersed in music at a young age, Devesh is fortunate to have grown up surrounded by iconic figures of Indian Music. Devesh accompanied his mother on her visits with the late Ustad Vilayat Khan. Ustad Vilayat Khan grew to be a grandfather to Devesh.
Flame the Band, artist
Where you can hear them: Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady on Friday, July 1
Flame is a high-energy American Cover band that performs globally playing all your favorites, from the classics through today’s hits, including some originals. Formed in 2003, they gained popularity from their appearances on Good Morning America and in People Magazine. They have also been featured in Tokyo, Japan’s Daily Mainichi News, News-2-You, News Channel 10 and other news outlets around the world. Flame consists of nine talented members who happen to have disabilities.
Barbara Howard, Artist
Where you can hear her: Jennings Landing in Albany on Saturday, July 2
Barbara N. Howard was born and raised in Albany, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Brockport and her Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Grand Canyon University. These achievements helped lead her to become an elementary school teacher, gospel recording artist, actor, and storyteller.
ESYO Percussion Ensemble, artist
Where you can hear them: Dogs of Desire on Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm at Cohoes Music Hall, and at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady on Friday, July 1
The Youth Percussion Ensemble is one of ESYO’s three percussion ensembles, following the model of our progressive training program by providing a clear path for young percussionists to follow as they develop and improve their ensemble skills under the supervision of several of the area’s top percussion players. Typically, the members of the Youth Percussion Ensemble also perform in Youth Orchestra and Repertory Orchestra. The Youth Percussion Ensemble routinely performs in festivals and clinics throughout the northeast, and has been a guest performer at Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival.
