Dalton Wed@7:30pm: Live and Interactive! 2012–13 Season Wednesday 12 September 2012 7th Concert Dalton Center Recital Hall 7:30 p.m.

IKTUS PERCUSSION Cory Bracken, Percussion Chris Graham, Percussion Josh Perry, Percussion Piero Guimaraes, Percussion

“The Music of John Cage” Celebrating the John Cage Centennial

John Cage Second Construction (1912–1992)

Amores II. Trio III. Trio Chris Graham, Josh Perry, and Piero Guimaraes

Six Melodies Chris Graham, Vibraphone, and Piero Guimaraes, Marimba

Living Room Music

Child of Tree Soloist: Josh Perry

Third Construction Based in New York City, IKTUS PERCUSSION is an ambitious and dynamic young ensemble committed to expanding the boundaries of the percussion genre. Iktus is a collective-based operation, featuring an array of industrious and multi-talented percussionists with Chris Graham, Justin Wolf, Steve Sehman, Nick Woodbury, and Cory Bracken at the core. As a group with strong ties to the local artistic community, Iktus is dedicated to collaboration with emerging artists, having commissioned over fifty new works for percussion from such composers as Angélica Negrón, Aaron Siegel, Lisa R. Coons, Jenny Olivia Johnson, Stefan Weisman, and Billy Martin (of Medeski, Martin and Wood), among others.

With an exciting and diverse range of repertoire, Iktus has performed at such venues and festivals as the Bang on A Can Marathon, Galapagos Arts Space, Le Poisson Rouge, Issue Project Room, Symphony Space, and Trinity Church. Iktus has been appointed to several residencies including SUNY Purchase College (where they performed Laura Kaminsky’s Terra Terribilis, a concerto for percussion quartet and orchestra), CUNY Brooklyn College, and the pre-college music program at Stony Brook University. As performer-educators, Iktus has also hosted master classes for various enthusiastic elementary school audiences. Community outreach and public performance is an essential aspect of Iktus’ mission – in September of 2011, Iktus performed an exciting all-percussion outdoor concert in Fort Greene Park, including works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, and Iannis Xenakis.

In the Spring of 2010, Iktus was selected as a Time Out New York Critic’s Pick: Top Ten Concert of the Year, and received critical acclaim from the New York Times for their performance with the St. Petersburg Chamber Symphony in Symphony Space’s “Wall to Wall” series: Music of the Soviet Era, and sold out the final evening of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek with critical acclaim at Issue Project Room in January of 2012.

This concert is a Bullock Performance Institute (BPI) presentation. BPI events are made possible through the cooperation and support of several community fine arts units: the Donald P. Bullock Music Performance Institute; WMUK National Public Radio; the Western Michigan University College of Fine Arts, School of Music, and WMU’s chapters of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternities.

If the fire alarm sounds, please exit the building im m ediately. All other emergencies will be indicated by spoken announcem ent within the seating area. The tornado safe area in Dalton Center is along the lockers in the brick hallway to your left as you exit to the lobby behind you. In any em ergency, walk— do not run— to the nearest exit. Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices during the performance. Because of legal issues, any video or audio recording of this performance is prohibited without prior consent from the School of M usic. Thank you for your cooperation.