Tura New Music presents
Scale Variable 04 No. 2
Drumming in the Dark
Steve Schick
Percussionist Extraordinaire
“enormous fire and commitment.”
- The Times (London)
Works by Xenakis, Lucier, Globokar & Reynolds
7.30pm Sun 26th September, The Art Gallery of WA
Ticketing
Full Price $25.00
Concession/TuraCard $15.00
Tickets from Tura 08 9380 6996 or 78 Records
Program
| Rebonds (1989) | Iannis Xenakis |
| Toucher' | Vinko Globokar |
| ?Corporel (1985) | Vinko Globokar |
| Psappha (1975) | Ianiis Xenakis |
| Watershed (1995) | Roger Reynolds |
"Steven Schick is an exception among percussionists. A man electrified on the passing of time, sunk in concentration, to be awakened as an instrument himself, measuring, with his sticks, a kind of cosmic time."
- Badische Zeitung
Scale Variable
Scale Variable New Chamber Music Series is a project of Tura New Music bringing the work of Australian and international composers to ears of Perth audiences. Initiated in 2001 Scale Variable has seen performances by the WASO New Music Ensemble, Defying Gravity, The Collective ,Vertigo Ensemble & pi.
Steven Schick, percussionist
Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany. Steven Schick has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival among many others. He has recorded many of those works for SONY Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI . He has recently released a duo recording with cellist Maya Beiser, “Caught By the Sky with Wire,” on OO-discs and has released, “Drumming in the Dark,” a new solo CD with Neuma Records.
From 1984 to 1992, Schick taught at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, co-directing the course's seminal percussion program with James Wood. He has been regular guest lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London. Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music.
Steven Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars from 1992-2002. Other important ongoing collaborations include work with pianist James Avery, the percussion group "red fish blue fish" and the Maya Beiser/Steven Schick Project. Steven Schick is Artistic Director of the “Centre International de Percussion de Genève.”
