Third Coast Percussiion & Flutronix Announce First Joint Tour

GRAMMY Award-winning percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore) will kick off a joint tour on February 15th with Flutronix  (flutist-composers Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull). The five tour dates include performances in Glassboro, NJ on February 15; Winchester, VA on February 17; Richmond, VA on February 19; Bethlehem, PA on February 24; and College Park, MD on February 26. The two groups first collaborated on Third Coast Percussions’ 2022 GRAMMY-nominated album, Perspectives.  

Flutronix and Third Coast Percussion are working to redefine classical music for the 21st century. At each of the five concerts, they will perform their composition, “Rubix,” an innovative piece co-composed by the two ensembles and recorded together on TCP’s album Perspectives. “Rubix” was the first time either group co-composed with musicians outside of their respective ensembles. The three-movement piece was inspired by musical games that tie the composers’ sound worlds together. 

“Nathalie and Allison from Flutronix are two of the most inspiring and hard-working composers and performers working in our field today,” Skidmore said. “It’s going to be such a treat to share the stage with them on this tour.” 

The concert program begins with a set from Flutronix and transitions into Third Coast Percussion’s performance of “Perspective” by Jlin, another selection from their 2022 album. The piece, described by Gramophone as “stunning” and “exquisite,” takes the hyper-beat music of up-tempo EDM (electronic dance music) to a new level with Third Coast Percussion performing the piece on over 30 instruments. Jlin “has absorbed footwork, but turned it inside out for her collaboration with Third Coast Percussion.” (NPR) 

Tickets for all performances can be purchased at https://thirdcoastpercussion.com/events/  

Third Coast Percussion Flutronix tour dates 

February 15 at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ 

February 17 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA 

February 19 at Modlin Center For the Arts at University of Richmond in Richmond, VA 

February 24 at Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA 

February 26 at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland in College Park, MD 

ABOUT THIRD COAST PERCUSSION 

Third Coast Percussion (comprised of Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) is a GRAMMY® Award - winning Chicago - based percussion quartet and GRAMMY® - nominated composer collective. For over fifteen years, the ensemble has created exciting and unexpected performances that constantly redefine the classical music experience. The ensemble has been praised around the country for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of its recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star - Tribune). A commission for a new work from composer Augusta Read Thomas in 2012 led to the realization that commissioning new musical works can be — and should be — as collaborative as any other artistic partnership. Through extensive workshopping and close contact with composers, Third Coast Percussion has commissioned and premiered new works by Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli, Clarice Assad, Gemma Peacocke, Flutronix, Jlin, Tyondai Braxton, Augusta Read Thomas, Devonté Hynes, Georg Friedrich Haas, Donnacha Dennehy, Glenn Kotche, Christopher Cerrone, and David T. Little, among others, in addition to many of today’s leading up-and-coming composers through its Currents Creative Partnership program. Third Coast Percussion currently serves as ensemble-in-residence at Denison University. More information on Third Coast Percussion is available HERE. 

ABOUT FLUTRONIX 

Flutronix is Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, two distinguished performers and composers who are paving the way from their classical roots to the future of music.  Founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 2007, the duo have evolved as influential creators and socially conscious changemakers. Their current large-scale projects rooted in this space include Discourse, an evening-length community-centered performance activism initiative, and Black Being, an immersive electro-acoustic song-cycle examining the complexities of black womanhood, featuring newly commissioned text by North Carolina poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green.  In addition to their collaborative creations, the duo support each other regularly on individual projects, and as producers on recorded work, including Joachim’s Grammy-nominated Fanm d’Ayiti.  Flutronix independently publishes their extensive catalog of chamber works, and are dedicated educators who have held appointments at Montclair State University, Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, University of Hartford, The Perlman Music Program and more. Joachim currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at Princeton University, and Loggins-Hull is The Cleveland Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow. 

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