Program

JOHN SHAW, percussion

MATTHEW DECKER, percussion

ERIC SCHWEIKERT, percussion

CAT COLE, percussion coordinator

ANNA KATE MACKLE, harp

Our evening explores the many facets of the percussionist’s art, beginning with a tribute to the marching drums of the revolutionary era fife and drum tradition. It also showcases a marimba quartet that evokes the feeling of Australian aboriginal music, as well as a harp and steel pan duo performed by EMF principal harpist Anna Kate Mackle and John Shaw by American composer Andy Akiho, and many more percussive surprises! The performance this evening features only work by living composers.

JOHN BECK, Jr. • Downfall

IVAN TREVINO • Trances I

NIGEL WESTLAKE • Omphalo Centric Lecture

ANDY AKIHO • Karakurenai

Anna Kate Mackle,  harp

John Shaw, steel pan

APLONIO AGURRE/arr. J. Currey • Las Perlitas 

LARRY SPIVAK • Quartet for Paper Bags

JLIN • Derivative

Notes

For six decades, Eastern Music Festival (EMF), a nationally recognized classical music festival and summer educational program, is produced each summer on the campus of Guilford College and other venues in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area. EMF is distinguished by its accomplished faculty, exhilarating repertoire, and world-renowned visiting artists under the artistic direction of Gerard Schwarz. A powerful teaching institution, EMF provides encouragement and guidance to hundreds of young musicians from across the country and around the globe as they take their first steps towards careers in the performing arts. EMF’s five-week 62^ndseason is June 24 – July 29, 2023. 

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Cost

More information

P.O. Box 22026 Greensboro. NC 27420 +1.336.333.7450
https://easternmusicfestival.org/

Dates

• Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 8:00 PM