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Source: Kurt Gartner, 785-532-3808, kgartner@k-state.edu

Monday, Oct. 27, 2008

K-STATE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE CONCERT TO FEATURE MULTIMEDIA ELEMENTS

MANHATTAN -- The semiannual Percussion Ensemble Concert at Kansas State University will be 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in McCain Auditorium.

The concert is free and the public is invited. The K-State Percussion Ensemble is under the direction of Emory Dease, a graduate teaching assistant in percussion, Stilwell, and Kurt Gartner, K-State associate professor of percussion.

The concert, which will include the premiere performance of a work commissioned and composed for the ensemble, features works that incorporate multimedia elements such as pre-produced and real-time audio and video images and effects.

The new work commissioned for the ensemble is "World Order No. 5" by composer Sabrina Pena Young, who completed the piece in September. In the work, Young combines live percussion ensemble performance with otherworldly audio effects and digitally animated images. The work is the second by Young commissioned by the ensemble.

Brandon Draper, a Kansas City-based percussionist, will join the ensemble in the performance of his original compositions, which combine world percussion with real-time audio looping and other effects. Also to be performed will be Dustin Lowes' "Electrolution," which is represented as an evolution of electronic synthesis, for eight percussion and electronica, according to Gartner.

Australian composer Nigel Westlake's oeuvre will be represented twice in the program: "Moving Air," for a quartet of battery percussion with CD audio track; and "Invisible Men," an original percussion ensemble score set to the 1906 silent film "Les Invisibles." The film was originally produced by Pathe Freres and is made available by "ScreenSound Australia," the National Screen and Sound Archive of Australia.

K-State Percussion Ensemble members include:

Michael Sturd, sophomore in music, Arkansas City; Blake Vignery, senior in music education, Concordia; Kelsie Yarbrough, junior in music education, Gardner; Jaimie Shores, sophomore in music education, Haven.

Elliot Arpin, freshman in music, Hutchinson; Adam Watson, junior in music, Junction City; Collin Hosek, senior in applied music-instrumental performance, Lawrence; Erin Schuberth, freshman in music education, Lenexa; Josh Brantl, freshman in music education, and Dean Linton, senior in applied music-instrumental performance, both of Manhattan; Brian Anderson, senior in music education and mathematics, Salina; and Alex Seiwert, freshman in music education, Wichita.

From out of state: Josh Heath, sophomore in architectural engineering, Kansas City, Mo.; and Ryan Smallwood, freshman in music education, Lino Lakes, Minn.