As part of our 20th Anniversary celebration we are excited to announce some of TCP’s most ambitious artistic collaborations to date, including projects with the legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp, tabla master Zakir Hussain, GRAMMY®-winning composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery, and boundary-breaking jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan.
This is only the beginning—be on the lookout for more collaborations to be announced in the coming months!
TWYLA THARP DANCE
DIAMOND JUBILEE
Featuring Third Coast Percussion
Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a new dance work set to a reimagining of Philip Glass’s iconic Aguas da Amazonia. The music–arranged by Third Coast Percussion in close collaboration with Tharp–is performed on a unique collection of custom instruments curated and built by TCP. The ensemble will perform live with Tharp’s dance company on tour across the United States in 2025, and create a studio recording of the full suite of colorful new Glass arrangements.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN
Third Coast Percussion has commissioned tabla master Zakir Hussain to compose a major new work that blends the sounds of tabla with a classically-trained percussion ensemble. A shared spirit of collaboration and curiosity reverberates among the five artists who will share the stage as part of a special double bill concert presentation that will tour nationwide in 2025.
JESSIE MONTGOMERY
Composer/performer Jessie Montgomery is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence and a recent GRAMMY® Award winner. TCP is thrilled to collaborate with Jessie in a dynamic program that equally showcases her excellence as visionary creator and virtuosic performer. TCP has commissioned a new work by Jessie that will draw a universe of sounds and characters out of a very compact percussion setup. Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra–a tour de force that draws inspiration from the vibrant sounds of Javanese gamelan features Montgomery as violin soloist.
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan crosses boundaries between jazz, classical, electronic, and Armenian folk music. Hamasyan is composing his first percussion quartet for TCP, set to premiere in Fall 2024 as part of the ensemble's new 20th Anniversary recital program.