The 2012-2013 Season is dedicated to Elliott Carter. The Concert Tonight is dedicated to John Korchok Founder and Director of Experimental Musicians New Jersey.

Program

Inventions on a Motive (1955) Michael Colgrass for Percussion Quartet Motive Invention 1 Invention 2 The William Paterson University Invention 3 Invention 4 Invention 5 presents Invention 6 Finale John Henry Bishop, Travis Salem, Kiana Salameh, Dakota Singerline Peter Jarvis - Conductor New Music Series Out of Frame (2012) James Romig Peter Jarvis, director For Three Marimba Players Tim Malone, Steve Nowakowski & David Endean John Ferrari – Conductor with guests Without a Doubt (2009) * Dominic Donato Lynn Bechtold, Dan Cooper For Solo Drum Set and Peter Jarvis

Gene Pritsker Inside (2006) Gene Pritsker For Electronic Sounds

Invention 2 (2006) Daniel Levitan For Percussion Duo Monday, April 1, 2013, 7:00 PM Patrick Lapinski & Mike Jacquot Peter Jarvis - Coach Shea Center for the Performing Arts Paroxysm Extract (2012) Gene Pritsker For Electronic Sounds

The Frame Problem (2003) James Romig For Percussion Trio Tim Malone, Steve Nowakowski & David Endean Payton MacDonald - Conductor Invention 2: Daniel Levitan Red Eye (2012) * Evan Hause Invention 2 is a short percussion duos in which the choices of instrumentation, Trio for Guitar, Bass and Drums tempo, and dynamics are left to the performers. The musical interest lies is the interplay Dan Cooper, Peter Jarvis & Gene Pritsker of rhythms between the two players, so that the pieces should be immediately recognizable no matter which instruments are used.

Paroxysm Extract: Gene Pritsker Controlled Improvisation Number 2 (2012) Peter Jarvis I wrote Paroxysm as a commission for a dance piece by Erin Bomboy . The For Amplified or Electric Violin and Drum Set music is very textural. Using mostly acoustic instruments I modify electronically these Lynn Bechtold & Drum Set timbers to create new sonic textures. This is a 60 seconds extract from the original 7 minuet composition * = World Premiere - Gene Pritsker

Program Notes The Frame Problem: James Romig The Frame Problem, composed in 2003, was commissioned by a consortium of Inventions on a Motive: Michael Colgrass percussion ensembles from Iowa State University, Susquehanna University, Truman Inventions on a Motive by Michael Colgrass is among the earlier pieces State University, University of Akron, University of Illinois, University of Northern Iowa, composed for percussion quartet and is often played by college percussion ensembles. University of North Florida, University of Southern Mississippi, Western Illinois Colgrass, a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, is a pioneer in percussion ensemble as both University, and William Patterson University. The work's instrumentation comprises player and composer. He has composed many pieces that have obtained status of multiple "trios": each player performs on a trio of woods, metals, or small drums, while standard repertoire for percussion groups. a fourth trio—of larger drums—is distributed between the three parts. The work, a strict circular canon (each part is identical, merely starting from a different point on a Out of Frame: James Romig looped continuum), also incorporates a paradigmatic "trio of trios" into its large-scale Out Of Frame, for three marimbas (or three players sharing two instruments) structure: a particularly explosive and distinct section of the work occurs three times in was commissioned in 2012 by the Millikin University Percussion Ensemble. The work, each part (nine times, therefore, in total), functioning as a kind of "keystone.” Over the lasting approximately eight minutes, is a companion piece to The Frame Problem, a span of the work, this short section is heard twice as a solo (once in the metals; once in 2003 percussion trio scored for un-pitched drums, woods, and metals. Out Of Frame is a the small drums), twice as a duet between players (woods and small drums; woods and strict canon: each of the three players performs the same musical material, but in a metals), and finally as a trio that concludes the work. different octave and starting at a different point on a looped continuum. The title refers to a primary difficulty in designing robots and computer - James Romig programs with "artificial intelligence." Human brains have a remarkable ability to "frame" information: in an instant, we are able to observe and organize an enormous amount of data, sorting and categorizing what is relevant and what is not. When Without a Doubt: Dominic Donato listening to music, one of the primary hierarchical "frames" we create is that of Without a Doubt (2009) was written for Peter Jarvis and his drum set meter. In this percussion trio, multiple distinct meters occur concurrently—in different anthology. A driving rhythmic line on low and high tom-tom evolves with lines, at constantly shifting dynamic levels, and in different timbral aggregations— accumulating bass drum and cymbal interjections. This music alternates providing human listeners with the opportunity to resolve multiple overlapping with a more flexible unhurried music creating a somewhat “schizophrenic” “frames” simultaneously. solo for drum set. Without a Doubt is part of my series of four drum - James Romig solos - djembe, timpani, 7 drums, drum set. - Dominic Donato Red Eye: Evan Hause Inside: Gene Pritsker Red Eye was written in response to a request from Gene Pritsker and Peter Inside consists entirely of sounds produced by playing inside the piano. I Jarvis for a piece for Electric Guitar and Drums. The opening riff came from an opened up my beat up Up right and recorded as many sounds I could think of making improvisation (one of many) I did on guitar with a drummer a few years ago. I developed inside it. Including harmonics, scrapes, glissandos, muted strings with pedal and the riff compositionally and, with Gene and Peter’s consent, added the electric bass that without, etc. i put these sounds into my computer and started affecting them and I had been hearing in my head. It is written largely in 5/4, though this is due mainly to arranging them until I felt I created a coherent composition. I hope I have succeeded in the guitar riff, as the surrounding music is often layered in multiple meters (7/4 across making a lucid piece of music inside the span of 60 seconds and saying inside the piano. 5/4, as one example). The title “Red Eye” came to me in the middle of writing this piece, - Gene Pritsker and it stuck firmly. There is no special meaning by it. - Evan Hause Controlled Improvisation Number 2: Peter Jarvis ballet, opera and jazz ensembles. He organized the percussion sections for Gunther Controlled Improvisation Number 2 for amplified or electric violin and drum Schuller’s recordings and concerts, as well as for premieres of new works by John Cage, set was completed on September 2, 2012. The piece was written for and is dedicated to Elliott Carter, Edgard Varese, and many others. During this New York period he friend and colleague Lynn Bechtold. continued to study composition with Wallingford Riegger (1958) and Ben Weber (1958- This is the second piece in an ongoing series of “controlled improvisations.” 60). Throughout the piece the duo weaves in and out of sections that are completely Colgrass has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic and The composed, one player having a composed part while the other improvises and other Boston Symphony (twice). Also the orchestras of Minnesota, Detroit, San Francisco, St. sections of free improvisation. Louis, Pittsburgh, Washington, Toronto (twice), the National Arts Centre Orchestra - Peter Jarvis (twice), The Canadian Broadcast Corporation, The Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Manhattan and Muir String Quartets, The Brighton Festival in England, The Biographical Information Fromm and Ford Foundations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and numerous other orchestras, chamber groups, choral groups and soloists. Lynn Bechtold: He won 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Déjà vu, which was commissioned Violinist Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the U.S., Canada, and premiered by the New York Philharmonic. In addition, he received an Emmy Award Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked with in 1982 for a PBS documentary “Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass.” He has composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Harbison, Steve Mackey, and been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, A Rockefeller Grant, First Prize in the Morton Subotnick. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a work for violin and Barlow and Sudler International Wind Ensemble Competitions, and the 1988 Jules Leger electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier. As a member of groups that have included Prize for Chamber Music. Zentripetal, the East Village Opera Company (rock/opera band), the SEM Ensemble, and - From michaelcolgrass.com the NY Symphonic Ensemble, Ms. Bechtold has performed around the world, and has been heard on CBC Radio, CBS-TV, NHK-TV, and WNYC. Other programs have been with Dan Cooper: Absolute Ensemble, DJ Spooky, North/South Consonance, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor Dan Cooper’s music has been noted in The Associated Press, American Record Dance Company, the Vermont Symphony, VisionIntoArt, VOX Opera Readings, and Pablo Guide, Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe, CurtainUp, Fanfare, Greenwich Times, Metroland Ziegler. In addition, she's performed with entertainers such as Boyz II Men, Willie Colon, Albany, NMC, The New York Times, Times Union, and Time Out New York, among others Sheryl Crow, Escort, Roberta Flack, Left Banke, Smokey Robinson, J-Pop band SMAP, and - "contemporary impressionism," "inventive," "creative," "vibrant," "drawing on Donna Summer. An active performer, she has performed at diverse venues such as Alice vernacular styles," "especially fascinating," "full of instrumental virtuosity and sly Tully Hall, the Blue Note, the Frick Museum, the Harvard Club, Joe's Pub, Merkin Hall, humor," "utterly charming," "incorporates blues...into a contemporary context," nublu, le Poisson Rouge, St John the Divine, and Zankel Hall. She received her Masters "whimsical," "carefree," "acute," "daring," "well-plotted," "hauntingly beautiful," and Degree from the Mannes College of Music, where she was a student of noted violinist with a "spirit of originality, verve, and humor, now being passed on to a new Felix Galimir. Prior to that, she received a double-degree in Violin and English from the generation." Cooper was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Horace Mann, New England Conservatory and Tufts University in Boston. In addition, she likes to Columbia, NEC, and Princeton. His music has been recognized with various awards, compose electroacoustic works, and to write articles about food/music/life. Her commissions, premieres, recordings, showcases, and residencies from Albany compositions were recently performed on the Composers Concordance Festival and the Symphony, Albany Records, ASCAP, Artists International, Cary Trust, Circadia, Electro- Music With a View Festival during the 2011-12 season. She is on the faculty of Music, ESYO, Engine 27, Femmes Four, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, ISC, June in Buffalo, Greenwich House Music School in NYC, and the Norwalk Youth Symphony. Meet the Composer, NARAS, NEA, NYNME, NYYS, North River Music, Palisades Virtuosi, (www.zentripetalduo.com) ACO / Sonic Festival, Tanglewood, Vox Novus, Walter W. Naumburg Fund, and Zentripetal Duo, among others. He has performed at Anadolu Auditorium Istanbul, Michael Colgrass: Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, BNH, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Casino Michael Colgrass (b. 1932) began his musical career in Chicago where his first de Paris, CBGB, Chicago Theater, Davies Hall, Galapagos, Grande Auditório do Centro professional experiences were as a jazz drummer (1944-49). He graduated from the Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong City Hall, Irving Plaza, Joe's Pub, Koseinenkin Hall Osaka, University of Illinois in 1954 with a degree in performance and composition and his LPR, Massey Hall, Munich Philharmonic Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana, Piccolo Teatro studies included training with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at di Milano, Rockefeller Center, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royce Hall UCLA, Tanglewood. He served two years as timpanist in the Seventh Army Symphony Staatsoper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Taplin Auditorium, Teatro Albeniz Madrid, Orchestra in Stuttgart, Germany and then spent eleven years supporting his composing Teatro Cultura Artística São Paulo, Teatro Grand Rex Buenos Aires, The Blue Note, The as a free-lance percussionist in New York City where his wide-ranging performance Gershwin Hotel, The Harvard Club, The Knitting Factory, The Stone, and Town Hall, venues included the New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, Dizzy Gillespie, among others, plus broadcasts on NBC, BBC, Radio France, Bravo, and RAI. In 2002, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the original West Side Story orchestra on Broadway, the Cooper was appointed to the faculty of the SUNY / FIT, where he has created new SUNY Columbia Recording Orchestra’s Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky series, and numerous General Education Requirement courses in American Music, European-Classical Music, and Latin-American and Caribbean Music. In addition, Cooper teaches composition at the 92nd St Y School of Music, and music and Shakespeare classes at Greenwich House performing arts faculty since 2002. In fall 2007 he joined the faculty of Manhattan Senior Center. He is a co-director of Composers Concordance. School of Music’s graduate Contemporary Performance program. He is also on the teaching artist rosters of Hunter College (since 2008) and Princeton University (since Dominic Donato: 2010). Dr. Dominic Donato is a percussion soloist, chamber musician, composer and teacher. He is a member of the DoublePlay Percussion Duo and a has been staff Evan Hause: percussionist for the Composers Conference at Wellesleyn College for the past 20 years. Evan Hause's music has been performed, and in many cases commissioned, by He has performed in New York, Rome, Amsterdam, and in Paris for the French premiere the Boston, Albany, Phoenix, Utah, Louisville, Memphis, Brooklyn and Grand Rapids of Iannis Xenakis' Percussion Concerto, Omega. He premiered James Tenney's Song 'n' Symphonies, Alarm Will Sound, Locrian Chamber Players, Pittsburgh New Music Dance for Harry Partch with the SWR Symphony Orchestra at the Donaueschingen Music Ensemble, Oberlin Percussion Group and Contemporary Ensemble, the Carolina Festival and was featured soloist for Iannis at the Gulbenkian Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Chamber Music Festival, and Tales&Scales among others. It has been played at In May 2001 Dominic presented his first concert of all tamtam music numerous colleges and universities such as CalArts, Cincinnati Conservatory, SUNY (TAMTAM I) which became the inspiration for his "Music for Tamams" Project. It Buffalo, Rutgers and Universities of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Florida, Greensboro, featured James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion and two versions Syracuse, North Texas, Maryland, Oklahoma and Louisiana, as well as at Lincoln Center, of John Cage's One4 along with new pieces by Helen Lee and himself. He has Banff Centre for the Arts, June in Buffalo, Aspen Music Festival, Yellow Barn Festival commissioned and performed a number of compositions featuring tamtams from a (VT), Perkumania Festival (Paris), "Spring in Havana" and University of Michigan number of very talented composers including Peter Jarvis, Stuart Jones, Elizabeth Electronic Music Festivals; at conferences by the International Trumpet Guild and Hoffman, Eric Moe, Steven Ricks and Ushio Torikai. He has also written a number of ClarinetFest; and in Japan, England, France, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Holland, pieces that feature tamtam, most recently using the Electrix Repeater as a means to Jordan, Mexico, Thailand, Taiwan, Spain, Turkey, Venezuela, Cuba and Brazil, and expand the possibilities in live performance. In 2006 he presented a second full concert broadcast by radio stations in Canada, Germany, and around the U.S. His music has of all tamtam music (TAMTAM II) which featured new works by Jarvis, Jones, Ricks and been recorded by jazz pianist John Hicks, Alarm Will Sound, Sole Nero, Eric Berlin, himself as well as James Tenney's For Percussion Perhaps, Or…(night). Last year Maureen Hurd, and Italian marimba virtuoso Filippo Lattanzi on the Cadence, Dominic released "METALMORPHOSIS," the first CD of his "Music for Tamtams" project, Cantaloupe, Equilibrium, MSR, and DAD labels, respectively. on Capstone Records. Upcoming premieres include new works written for Dominic by Hause has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee composers Barbara White, Maxwell Dulaney, Xi Wang, and Seung-Ah Oh. "Barn," the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and at Galapagos Art Space. His awards include In 2007, Dr. Donato was selected by Meet the Composer as one of ASCAP Morton Gould awards, the Rackham Regents and Dissertation Fellowships of the eight"Soloist Champions." He directs the Percussion Department and Ensembles at University of Michigan, the Herbert Elwell Composer Award of the Oberlin Conservatory Purchase College, SUNY. For more information please visit: www.musicfortamtams.com and the Sanford Scholarship of the North Carolina School of the Arts (in all cases the top and the Purchase College website: www.purchase.edu. awards conferred by these institutions). He has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Meet the Composer, NEA and the - From Talujon.com American Music Center. His major works include three operas, known as The Defenestration Trilogy (2000-2007), one mini-opera called Nassau (ostensibly a Brooklyn Ulysses – 2004-2011), John Ferrari: an hour-long cantata called The Ship of Death (which sets the D.H. Lawrence poem of John Ferrari is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film, television and the same name), concerti for the marimba, trumpet, and electric guitar, and a dearth of dance music, the avant-garde, and multi-media. He has performed and given master eclectic rock songs, some of which have been recorded on the CD HOSS – Adventures of classes nationally and abroad, and appears on dozens of recordings as percussionist, Freddy on which Hause plays and sings all parts. Most of this music may be sampled drummer and conductor. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning freely on the internet via www.hausemusic.com. New Millennium Ensemble, a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of As a percussionist Hause has performed with Alarm Will Sound (also as electric Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, and has been a member of Meridian Arts guitarist), S.E.M. Ensemble, and the Symphonies of North Carolina, Canton, Charleston, Ensemble since 1993. Mr. Ferrari has also appeared and/or recorded with many other Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Flint, Ann Arbor, Long Island, Albany (NY), and many notable organizations such as: Bang On A Can All-Stars, Da Capo Chamber Players, others. He has taught at Pittsburg State University (KS), Concordia College (Bronxville, Manhattan Symphonietta, Perspectives Ensemble, The Group for Contemporary Music, NY) and the North Carolina Governors School West. He was raised in Greenville, NC, the Orpheus Chamber Players, Riverside Symphony, Locrian, Cygnus, Pittsburg Collective, son of an orchestral conductor and a pianist, and currently resides in West Orange, NJ John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and others. He most recently has been heard in with his wife and two children, after living in Brooklyn, NY for twelve years. orchestras for the Shakespeare In The Park production of 'Into The Woods' and 'Evita' on Broadway. He also launched the premier concert of the Kag Ensemble this August at Peter Jarvis: the DiMenna Center in New York. Mr. Ferrari holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Peter Jarvis is a percussionist, conductor, drummer, composer, copyist, print Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he has served on the music editor, consultant and educator. Over the years he has performed as soloist, chamber player, principal percussionist in several orchestras and with choruses Gene Pritsker: including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Group for Contemporary Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker has written over four hundred Music, The American Modern Ensemble, The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble (which he compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro- directs), The Greg Smith Singers, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Talujon and on new acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions music/arts festivals throughout the United States and abroad. employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various Some of his recent and ongoing projects include scoring, arranging and musical cultures. performing for film and television including work on the award winning HBO series He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hiphop-chamber- Boardwalk Empire (seasons 2 and 3) and for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, which jazz-rock-etc. ensemble who have released cd's on Col-legno and Innova Records. received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Score along with an Academy Award Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many nomination. ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, The Athens Camarata, As conductor he has appeared with the Saint Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, The Brooklyn and Berlin Philharmonic. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Ensemble21, Cygnus Festival Orchestra and numerous orchestrated major Hollywood movies. other groups. He has appeared as guest conductor on the San Francisco Symphony’s The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph ‘New and Unusual Music Series.’ Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the Jarvis teaches music at Connecticut College and William Paterson University. artificial boundaries between highbrow, low brow, classical, popular musics and His teaching responsibilities include academic classes, percussion lessons, elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". coaching/conducting chamber music and directing several concerts a year at Raul d'Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: "Barring the obvious exceptions, much of Connecticut College and the New Music Series at William Paterson University where he 21st century composition appears to be thinning in significance, but this might be about is Director of New Music. He is frequently invited to do Masters Classes throughout the to change. Gene Pritsker is one of a very spare handful of composers effecting this United States. change." Evan Burke writes in I Care If You Listen: "Pritsker seems to look at all music as His compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC, Indian one genre, in which all other possible styles, sounds and traditions are meant to be used Paintbrush Productions and L-T Music Publishing. He is a member of BMI. as building blocks and palette colors, combined in various configurations to create a Additional information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jarvis boundless whole. This result is almost always more interesting, and representative of - From Wikipedia how most new music will be born in the 21st century, as genres and barriers begin to vanish, and as styles begin cross-fertilizing in previously unimagined ways." Daniel Levitan (b. 1953) has composed numerous works for percussion Organizations he is associated with include: Composers' ensemble that are regularly performed at colleges and universities across the country Concordance, Composers' Concordance Records, Absolute Ensemble, The International and around the world. He studied composition at Bennington College (BA, 1976) with Street Cannibals and the Austrian Outreach Festival. Gene Pritsker's music is published Henry Brant, Vivian Fine, and Marta Ptazynska; and percussion privately with Phil Ford by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers and Ray Spiegel (tabla), Frank Malabe (conga and latin percussion), and Tom Hemphill Music and recorded on: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo, Innova , Composers' (mallets). Mr. Levitan, a graduate as well of the North Bennett Street School (1975), Concordance Records, and Capstone record labels. works as a piano technician in New York City, and writes and lectures on tuning topics for the Piano Technicians Guild. James Romig: Payton MacDonald: James Romig composes music that endeavors to reflect the intricate Payton MacDonald (b. 1974, Idaho Falls, Idaho) is a complexity of nature, where fundamental structures exert influence on both small-scale composer/improviser/percussionist. He has created a unique body of work that draws iteration and large-scale design, obscuring the boundaries between form and content. upon his extensive experience with East Indian tabla drumming and Dhrupad vocal, His work shows the influence of academic study with Charles Wuorinen and Milton American military rudimental drumming, Jazz, European classical music, and the Babbitt, interaction with the natural world through hiking and photography, and an American experimental tradition. He works across multiple musical genres, often at the interest in chaos theory, fractal geometry, and small-world networks. Recent guest- same time. MacDonald studied music at the University of Michigan (BFA) and the composer visits include Northwestern University, the Aspen Institute, the Cincinnati Eastman School of Music (MM, DMA, Performer’s Certificate). His composition teachers Conservatory, the University of Illinois, Juilliard, and the American Academy in Rome. include Sydney Hodkinson, Robert Morris, Dave Rivello, Bright Sheng, and Augusta Read Residencies include Petrified Forest National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Thomas. His percussion teachers include John Beck and Michael Udow. Further studies Copland House. He holds degrees from Rutgers University (PhD) and the University of include tabla with Bob Becker and Pandit Sharda Sahai and Dhrupad vocal with Iowa (MM, BM), and has been on faculty at Western Illinois University since 2002. Ramakant Gundecha. MacDonald is a disciple of Mr. Sahai. The New York Times described MacDonald as an "energetic soloist" and The Los Angeles Times described him as an ". . . inventive, stylistically omnivorous composer and gifted performer . . ." MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Music at William Paterson University. Many Thanks to the Tech Crew under the Direction of Al Schaefer.

New Music at William Paterson University New Music Series – 2012-2013 All Concerts are at 7:00 PM unless otherwise stated.

All performances are in Shea Auditorium unless otherwise stated.

All programs are subject to change without notice.

October 29, 2012 ; 7:30PM – Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Works by Pierre Boulez, Earle Brown , Christian Carey, Peter Jarvis, György Ligeti, Gene Pritsker, Igor Stravinsky and James Tenney. Two world premieres will be performed.

Guest artist: Taka Kigawa and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble November 26, 2010; 7:30PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles. Featuring “Stream Runner” by Robert Morris. Robert Morris will be our guest at the concert. Other composers include: Elliott Carter, Daniel Levitan, Pierre Boulez, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti and Peter Jarvis

Please Note – Beginning February 4, 2013, all concerts on the New Music Series will start at 7:00PM

February 4, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Featuring Composers Concordance March 4, 2013; 7:00PM – Shea Center. Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles March 7, 2013, 12:30PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Composer in Residence Day performed on the Midday Artist Series. March 25, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: As part of the William Paterson University Cross Cultural Arts Festival: works by Qu Xiao-Song, Keiko Abe, Rüdiger Pawassar, Nicolas Doktor and John Adams. April 1, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles perform music by James Romig, Michael Colgrass, Peter Jarvis, Evan Hause, Gene Pritsker and others. April 22, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles perform music by: Toru Takemitsu, Carlos Chavez, David Saperstein, Leo Kraft and others.