Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Percussion Plus Project Performs Music of Tania León at DePauw University Aug. 31


Pianist May Phang Joins The Percussion Plus Project for August 31 Concert
DePauw University
Greencastle, Indiana
“August 21, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - The DePauw University School of Music will open its 124th concert season with a performance by the DePauw-based ensemble, The Percussion Plus Project. Titled "Works for Percussion Plus Piano," the program will begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 31 in Kresge Auditorium of the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. Admission is free. The ensemble will be joined by guest artist May Phang, piano, a member of the School of Music faculty.”

“The concert will feature contemporary works by Czech composer Tomáś Svoboda, Cuban composer Tania León, and the premier of A Kind of Standoff by Puerto Rican composer Armando Bayolo. DePauw Professor Amy Lynn Barber, who founded The Percussion Plus Project in Prague in 1993, describes the upcoming performance as "a great opportunity to feature our remarkable colleague May Phang in three virtuosic pieces of wildly different musical styles.” [Full Post] [Tania Justina León is profiled at AfriClassical.com Her own website is:
http://www.TaniaLeon.com/]





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