Third Coast Percussion performs at Carnegie Hall, 2025. Photo credit: Stephanie Berger
Grammy Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion reimagines the iconoclastic player piano compositions of architect and self-taught composer Bruce Goff in this special performance inspired by Bruce Goff: Material Worlds.
Third Coast Percussion first debuted a performance of these pieces in 2014. This year, they completed arrangements for all Goff’s works for the player piano and are presenting the full suite in live performance for the very first time at the Art Institute. The performance combines direct transcriptions of Goff’s quirky, beautiful, and at times fiendishly difficult musical works with the ensemble’s expansion and reimagination of the musical fragments and experiments that Goff left behind.
Made possible by the Carol Given Winston Fund for Docent and Patron Education.
About Third Coast Percussion
Third Coast Percussion (TCP) is Chicago’s GRAMMY® Award-winning percussion quartet and GRAMMY®-nominated composer collective that made history as the first percussion ensemble to win the revered music award in the classical genre.
After marking their 20th anniversary in 2025, TCP continues its milestone celebrations with exciting and unexpected performances worldwide that “constantly redefine the classical music experience” (Forbes) and “push percussion in new directions, blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listeners” (NPR), with a brilliantly varied sonic palette and “dazzling rhythmic workouts” (Pitchfork). The four members of Third Coast Percussion, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore, met while studying percussion at Northwestern University and formed the ensemble in 2005.
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