Ethos Percussion Group to Perform at SBU's Quick Center

The dynamic Ethos Percussion Group will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in the third concert of the Friends of Good Music season at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

Ethos Percussion Group has inspired audiences throughout the United States since 1989 with its exceptional music-making and collective devotion to the world of percussion music. The group plays with “expert togetherness, sensitivity and zest,” raved the New York Times following a concert at Lincoln Center.

The ensemble members are all accomplished solo artists whose distinctive musical perspectives combine to create Ethos’ diverse programming and performances. Equally at home in contemporary classical repertoire as in music from non-Western traditions, Ethos integrates global instruments and playing styles into percussion chamber music for a compelling experience in sight and sound.

The ensemble’s critically acclaimed performances regularly feature numerous commissions and world premieres, traditional influences from India, West Africa and the Middle East, and landmark works by composers such as John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa.

Recent seasons have included concerts across the United States and the United Kingdom, with major engagements at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress in Washington, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Percussive Arts Society International Convention. Ethos can be heard on a variety of recordings released by CRI, Decca, Koch International, New World and Tzadik.

Since its founding in 1989, Ethos has demonstrated its commitment to advancing the percussive arts in education as well as performance. In addition to presenting clinics and master classes at The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, University of Illinois, and Berklee College of Music, Ethos has worked with thousands of students in New York City’s public schools through concert and classroom activities. On Thursday, Nov. 19, and Friday, Nov. 20, approximately 600 children from the Olean and surrounding school districts will have the chance to experience the sounds of Ethos in the Quick Center’s Young People’s Performance Series.

This performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Subscription tickets for the entire Friends of Good Music season are still available. For subscriptions, single tickets and information, call The Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.

For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.