(GLASSBORO, NJ) -- The Rowan Percussion Ensemble welcomes Rowan graduate and faculty member Mika Godbole’s percussion quartet to its first concert of the new semester on Monday, February 18 at 8:00pm in Pfleeger Concert Hall.
Mobius Percussion, Godbole’s Brooklyn-based group, kicks off the evening with original works by Sleeping Giant Collective’s Jacob Cooper and So Percussion’s Jason Treuting. The program continues with Terry Riley’s landmark improvisational work “In C” featuring Mobius joined by faculty member Matthew Witten, the Percussion Ensemble, and Roberto Pace leading the Rowan Contemporary Music Ensemble, among others.
The quartet - Godbole, Victor Pablo, Nicole Patrick, and Nate Tucker - made its debut at the downtown multimedia art cabaret, (le) Poisson Rouge. They perform throughout the New York tri-state area at venues such as Baby’s All Right, Shapeshifter Lounge, and the Princeton Sound Kitchen. More recently, was featured in performances at New York Live Arts for the Rebecca Lazier/Dan Trueman work There Might Be Others. Among their upcoming projects are an oratorio by composer Wally Gunn and poet Maria Zajkowsi with the celebrated vocal sextet Variant Six and pieces by Princeton composers Gemma Peacocke and Emma O’Halloran in a collaboration with Iarla O’Lionaird of The Gloaming. Mobius recently earned a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant to work with Jacob Cooper on new percussion quartet.
Pfleeger Concert Hall is located in Wilson Hall on the campus of Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road in Glassboro. Tickets are $10, general admission; and $5, seniors/non-Rowan students/alumni/military. Rowan students, faculty and staff are admitted free with valid ID. Purchase tickets online at rowan.tix.com.
