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Steven Schick Residency 2: Touch

When

Thursday 18 September
7pm

Where

Rosina Auditorium

Cost

A Little Extra $60
Standard $40
A Little Less $20

Website

anam.com.au/whats-on/events/steve-schick-residency-2-touch

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When

Thursday 18 September
7pm

Where

Rosina Auditorium

Cost

A Little Extra $60
Standard $40
A Little Less $20

Website

anam.com.au/whats-on/events/steve-schick-residency-2-touch

Contact Details

Email

Book Now

Evolving musicians of all ages are asking themselves how the music they make might engage with, inform, and respond to the lives they live. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: how does life respond to music?

In his essay, The Externally Facing Artist, percussionist, conductor and author Steven Schick proposes three important relationships at the core of a healthy artistic practice: between an artist and the materials of their craft, between an artist and the natural world, and between an artist and their community.

To unpack these ideas and crucial relationships, ANAM and Schick will combine forces in a residency of three performances in 2025.

The second gathering of the residency – Touch – will bring together musicians, faculty, and audience to explore the nature of community and collaboration. From the organic improvisation Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros, through to the Australian premiere of the powerful TOUCH:TRACE by Zosha di Castri, this concert will conclude with a performance of Iannis Xenakis’s percussion sextet Persephassa.
Pauline OLIVEROS Tuning Meditation
Zosha DI CASTRINGS TOUCH:TRACE
Sarah HENNIES Settle
Iannis XENAKIS Persephassa / Steven Schick director/percussion
Peter Neville (ANAM Faculty) percussion
ANAM Musicians
ANAM Percussion

About

Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. Hailed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as, “one of our supreme living virtuosos, not just of percussion but of any instrument,” he has championed contemporary percussion music by commissioning or premiering more than one hundred-fifty new works. The most important of these have become core repertory for solo percussion. Schick was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2014.