New Jersey Percussion Ensemble

The Summit Music Festival

Central Presbyterian Church
70 Maple Street, Summit, New Jersey
July 28 & 29, 2006 8:00PM
Admission $15.00, $10.00 Senior and Student

Program

The Voice of the Rain (2006)* - Robert Maggio
Text by Walt Whitman

Summit Music Festival Chorus
Pianos - Holly Chatham and Thomas Cuffari
Percussion
Peter Jarvis, April McCloskey - Vibraphones
Al Cerulo, Alex Bocchino - Glockenspiels

Jason C. Tramm - Conductor

* = World Premiere

Carmina Burana (1936) - Carl Orff                            

Summit Music Festival Chorus
Percussion
Michael Aberback, April McCloskey, Michael Sperone,
Peter Jarvis, Alex Bocchino
Timpani - Al Cerulo
Soloists
Pianos - Thomas Cuffari and Holly Chatham
Lorraine Ernest - Soprano
Matthew Garrett - Tenor
Anton Belov - Baritone

Jason C. Tramm - Conductor
 

Biographical Information

    The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble directed by Peter Jarvis was founded in 1968 by Raymond DesRoches, who co-directed the group with Peter Jarvis and Gary Van Dyke until 2004. The highly acclaimed ensemble is made up of professionals and students from William Paterson University, where it has been in residence since 1972. Because of an ongoing commitment to the proliferation of percussion repertoire, numerous pieces have been written for, premiered by and recorded by the ensemble. The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble has appeared in the United States and Europe as guests of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Group for Contemporary Music, the Composers Guild of New Jersey, the San Francisco Symphony, the Gaudeamus Foundation, Radio Denmark, and countless others. The group can be heard on Nonesuch, Composer's Recording Inc., Music and Arts, Koch International, Desoto, New World, NAXOS, the Composers Guild of New Jersey and Capstone recording labels.

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