Author: nicholaspapador

PASIC 2024

I’m honoured to be presenting at PASIC 2024, sharing the stage with the incredible Heartland Marimba Quartet. During this session I’ll be talking about historical performers and the role of pitched percussion instruments in klezmer music from the early 1800s through the “Immigration Era.” We’ll be performing segments of all five suites from my new book, Vessels of Song. We’ll have copies at the convention expo, of course. These suites sound great, are really fun to play, and have some important stories to tell!

The Space Between III in Nova Scotia!

I’m looking forward to another great conference with the wonderful Canadian Percussion Network! I will be giving a follow up poster presentation about the performance practice and ornamentation in klezmer music performed on keyboard percussion instruments.

4th Wall Music – Elements of Percussion Concert

Thank you to Amy and the whole 4th Wall Music team for hosting RELA Percussion and myself to present The Elements of Percussion concert. I had a great time. RELA’s repertoire was fantastic and really fun to play; I’m so appreciative that they joined me to present the Canadian premiere of my work Djed (The Pillar) for marimba and percussion trio.

Conference Appearances in spring 2022

In May and June I presented works by Jordan Nobles at conferences where I facilitated performances of pieces from the Marimba Collage album with conference participants.

Percussionists from across Canada perform Jordan Nobles’ Quickening, Grace, Æther, and Stasis at the April 2022 percussion and research conference, The Space Between hosted by Dr. Michael Schutz and Dr. Fabrice Marandola at McMaster University.

The Bowling Green State University Percussion (Dr. Dan Piccolo, director) and conference participants performed a suite of works from Marimba Collage at the 8th International Conference on Music and Minimalism in May 2022.