EVENTS
The Percussion Ensemble concerts are made possible in part by a generous gift from Ann H. Atkinson.
2024-25 EVENTS
UPCOMING CONCERTS
UofT Percussion Ensemble
September 25, 2024 | 19:30 @ Walter Hall
Free Admission
Instrumentalis I
November 14, 2024 | 19:30 @ Walter Hall
Free Admission
UofT Percussion Ensemble
November 18, 2024 | 19:30 @ Walter Hall
Free Admission
Thursdays at Noon | Joy Boy: Dustin Donahue & Kairos Percussion Quartet
November 21, 2024 | 12:10 @ Walter Hall
Free Admission
RECENT CONCERTS
University of Toronto New Music Festival (UTNMF)
Jan. 27 to Feb. 4 | Various Locations
Jan. 31, 2023 | 19:30 @ Walter Hall: UofT Percussion Ensemble performs Stephen Morris’s Subterranean Dreams
Feb. 4, 2024 | 19:30 @ MacMillan Theatre: UofT Percussion Ensemble: Pillars by Andy Akiho *Canadian Premiere | Free Admission
UofT Percussion Ensemble
March 18, 2024 | 19:30 @ Walter Hall
Free Admission
UofT Percussion Ensemble: Metraton – Music by Eliot Britton, Kaija Saariaho and Sandeep Bhagwati
Nov. 27, 2023 19:30 @McMillan Lobby/Walter Hall
UofT Percussion Ensemble: Ligeti at 100
Oct. 4, 2023 | 19:30 PM @Walter Hall
Percussion Ensemble Concert
March 20, 2023 | 19:30pm @Walter Hall
Montréal New Music Festival
February 25, 2023 | 18:30pm
UTNMF: Percussion Ensemble
January 30, 2023 | 19:30pm @MacMillan Theatre
A Dream of Icy Winter| Percussion Ensemble Concert
November 28, 2022 | 19:30pm @Walter Hall
Bevis and Hoi Tong (KöNG Duo) performing at TROMP Percussion Sessions
November 18, 2022 | @Netherlands
Side-by-Side: “Alikeness” featuring U of T Music faculty artists and their students
October 24, 2022 | 19:30pm @Walter Hall
U of T Percussion Ensemble presents Xenakis at 100
October 18, 2022 | 19:30pm @MacMillan Theatre
‘The Dream Feed’- Thursdays at Noon
September 15, 2022 | 12:10pm @Walter Hall
MASTER CLASSES
Ayano Kataoka
Instrumental Performance Class | October 3,2024 10:00
Stephen Solook: Vibraphone and extended techniques
Instrumental Performance Class | October 26,2023 13:00
Alan Hetherington: maracas
Instrumental Performance Class | October 12,2023 13:00
Gordon Stout: marimba
Instrumental Performance Class | March 2, 2023 13:00
ARCHIVE
University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble, in their first concert of the season. Performing works by Chavez, Cage and Varese.
October 22 2019, 7:30 pm @ Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park
Free Admission
October 21st 2019, 7pm – 8pm @ University of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building Room E047, 80 Queen’s Park.
Free Admission
The students of the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble perform a self curated concert.
December 2nd 2019, 12pm @ Edward Johnson Lobby, 80 Queen’s Park
January 8th 2020, 6pm – 7:30pm @ University of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building Room E047, 80 Queen’s Park.
Free Admission, bring your own maracas!
Ivan Manzanilla: New Works from the Americas
8pm, January 16, 2020
The Array Space (155 Walnut Ave)
Leading Mexican percussionist Ivan Manzanilla presents a program of Canadian premieres of new and recent works for percussion instruments by composers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and the USA.
U of T Percussion performs Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique with special guests Midori Koga, Gregory Oh, Geoffrey Conquer, Matt Poon, Steven Philcox and Iván Manzanilla.
Free Admission. January 20th 2020, 7:30pm @ Macmillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park
The students of the University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble perform a self curated concert.
DAI FUJIKURA: MINI MARATHON
Co-produced with Thin Edge New Music Collective + the University of Toronto Faculty of Music
Come experience 3 sets showcasing one of the most active composers on the international stage! London-based Japanese composer Dai Fujikura’s works have been championed by Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the London Sinfonietta, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and many, many more.
Feb 29, 2020 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm @ArraySpace
University of Toronto Percussion will be presenting a program featuring world premieres and collaborations with emerging and local student composers.
Live streamed on Monday, March 15, 2021 @ 8pm EST
A program exploring different ways and spaces of listening – the everyday, the theatre, the environment, the digital. The concert will be featuring works by Vanessa Tomlinson (AUS), Raven Chacon (CA), Jodie Rottle (AUS), Yaz Lancaster (USA) and Viet Cuong (USA). We will also be premiering a new student project, collaboratively composed by four of our graduate students.
Live Stream on Monday, January 18, 2021 @ 8pm EST
Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant
PI: Aiyun Huang
Collaborator: Levy Lorezno (New School)
Research Assistants: Gregory Bruce, Randall Camacho, Tyler Cunningham, Gordon Fry, Boyce Jeffries, Tim Roth, Jasmine Tsui, Joyce To
Guests: Adam Kaleta, Louis Pino
Was live streamed on Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
A discussion of ways percussionists can address issues of cultural appropriation by examining instruments, repertoire, and rhythmic theory. Russell will also be discussing the newly released book which he and Ryan McClelland co-edited called “The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm”.
Was livestreamed Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
World Premieres for Live Zoom in collaboration with David Bithell, Sean Griffin, Terry Longshore and Left Edge Percussion
The premiere was live streamed on Monday, October 26th, 2020 at 8:00pm EST. Full concert available to watch at any time below!