Pathos Trio Releases Their Debut Album,
When Dark Sounds Collide,
on March 18th, 2022 on 
Panoramic Recordings,
an Imprint of New Focus Recordings

Each of the five compositions on the album was commissioned and premiered exclusively by Pathos Trio as part of their initiative to create a strong, cross-genre program of music that combines contemporary classical aesthetics with the ensemble's interests in dark, heavy, dense sounds drawn from other genres of music such as alternative rock, cathedral music, minimalist music, electronic synth-wave, and more.

To enhance the experience, all the works on the album have an accompanying music video produced by Grammy-nominated film company Four/Ten Media. Anticipating that the future of the entertainment industry will be centered around media presentation and that the attention of today’s audiences are increasingly more tuned into visual-based media, these videos also make the album's works available to a much wider range of listeners spanning across multiple genres of music. Pathos Trio aims to create music videos for each newly commissioned work going forward.

The music videos for each piece have been released on Vic Firth and I Care If You Listen.

This album is a part of an over two-year-long project that started in early 2019, shortly after the formation of the ensemble in late 2018, and has involved close collaborations with each composer involved. The product of these works has been a result of countless workshop sessions in Brooklyn, NY and residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and has been supported in part by musical and cultural institutions such as New Music USA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chamber Music America, and the New York State Council of the Arts.

Pathos is set to tour throughout the East Coast starting in Spring 2022 to promote the album, beginning with an album release concert at the New World Center in Miami Beach, FL on Monday, March 14th, 2022, at 7:30pm EST.

The tour continues at MISE-EN Place Greenpoint in Brooklyn, NY in May/June 2022 (exact date TBA), the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY in December 2022 (exact date TBA), and virtual release concerts to be held shortly after their Miami show on both March 20th and March 27th at 7pm EST through Musicivic.

TRACKLISTING

oblivious/oblivion by Finola Merivale

Delirious Phenomena by Alyssa Weinberg

COMPOSER NOTES

ABOUT PATHOS TRIO

"Elevated themselves into those elite ranks alongside Yarn/Wire, So Percussion, Tigue, Iktus and Ensemble Et Al", as described by the New York Music Daily, Pathos Trio (percussionists Marcelina Suchocka, Felix Reyes, and pianist/composer Alan Hankers) is a two percussion and piano trio committed to combining aesthetics of contemporary classical music with their interests in dark, heavy, dense sounds drawn from various genres of music such as alternative rock, progressive/black metal, cathedral music, minimalist music, electronic synth-wave, and more, while also aiming to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living, new-music composers.

Whether performing at major venues across the U.S., giving masterclasses and educational workshops, or creating exciting collaborative chamber music projects with musicians across New York City, when brought together Pathos Trio creates a tour de force to be reckoned with.

Marcelina Suchocka is a fourth-year Percussion Fellow at the New World Symphony. Her diverse career spans from performing in professional orchestras, to playing chamber/new music concerts and doing solo performances.

Felix Reyes is a freelance percussionist living in Brooklyn, NY and has performed all over the United States and abroad, including various countries such as El Salvador, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Japan.

A native to the world of contemporary music, Alan Hankers is a composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. As an active pianist, he frequently performs as a soloist and collaborator.