ysm ensembles
Yale Percussion Group
Robert van Sice, Director
Friday, March 31, 2023 | 7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
James Wood
b. 1953
Georges Aperghis
b. 1945
Village Burial with Fire (1989)
Le corps à corps (1978)
I. Ouverture
II. Le récit
III. La lutte (The Struggle)
intermission
Alejandro Viñao
b. 1951
Book of Grooves (2011)
I. A Spanish Groove
II. Colours of a Groove
Steve Reich
b. 1936
Sextet (1984–85)
I. Fast
II. Moderate
III. Slow
IV. Moderate
V. Fast
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Artist Profiles
Yale Percussion Group
Jessie Chiang ’24MM
Siija Huang ’22MM ’23MMA
Makana Medeiros ’23MM
Yukiko Nakamura ’23MMA
Mingyu Son ’24MM
Michael Yeung ’22MM ’23MMA
Founded in 1997 by Robert van Sice, the Yale Percussion Group has been called “something truly extraordinary” by composer Steve Reich. The ensemble is composed of talented and dedicated young artists who have come from around the world for graduate study at the Yale School of Music.
In recent seasons, the YPG has performed in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Galapagos Art Space, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble won the Percussive Arts Society competition in 2009 and 2014. A concert in 2012 called “75/100” celebrated the birthdays of Steve Reich and John Cage. The Zankel Hall concert was part of the Yale in New York concert series.
Members of the YPG have gone on to form such acclaimed ensembles as Sō Percussion and Sandbox Percussion. YPG alumni have also performed with such ensembles as Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two, the Carnegie Hall Academy Ensemble, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Robert van Sice, director
Robert van Sice, one of the world’s foremost performers of contemporary music for marimba, has premiered more than one hundred works throughout the world. He has appeared as a soloist with many major symphony orchestras as well as Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles, including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, and L’Itineraire in Paris. He has given recitals throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and the Far East, and has appeared as a soloist with renowned percussion ensembles Amadinda, Kroumata, Tambuco, Percussive Rotterdam, and Sō Percussion.
Van Sice has performed at such festivals as Ars Musica, Blossom, Darmstadt Course for New Music, Archipel, London Meltdown, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and others. He has given more than four hundred master classes in twenty-five countries and has released six CDs on the Etcetera, Mode, and New World labels.
Van Sice is Lecturer in Percussion and Director of the Yale Percussion Group at the Yale School of Music, and is also on the faculties of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and the Curtis Institute of Music. For the past fifteen years, van Sice has collaborated with the Adams Corporation in the Netherlands in the design of a series of marimbas bearing his name.
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