Steven Schick
Psappha, Anvil Chorus and Bone Alphabet
Focus Day Evening Concert
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

For the past thirty years, Steve Schick has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, by commissioning and premiering more than one hundred new works for percussion. He was the percussionist for the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002, and from 2000 to 2004 served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, “red fish blue fish.”  In 2007, he was named Music Director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.  In 2011, he was named the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.  Recent publications include: The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams, a three-CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis (Mode), and a 2012 DVD release of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Steven Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.

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