Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw will kick off ýƵ’s 2024-25 Performing Arts Series on Oct. 18.
The performance, at 7:30 p.m. in ýƵ Memorial Chapel, features Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.
Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century over the past two decades. The ensemble brings to life a vibrant percussion repertoire—for an extravagant array of collaborations in classical music, pop, indie rock, contemporary dance, and theater, and for their work in education and community, creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the possibilities of art.
Sō continues its collaboration with Shaw with a new collection of songs. The new songs will be featured alongside music from the Grammy Award-winning song cycle Narrow Sea, and the co-composed album of songs Let the Soil Play its Simple Part.
Shaw brings with her a long list of collaborations as she moves among roles, genres, and mediums—working as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. She was the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music for the a cappella piece, Partita for 8 Voices. She received a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Narrow Sea, her fourth Grammy Award. She has written and produced for Rosalía, Nas, Renée Fleming, and Yo-Yo Ma, among others.
This is the first performance in ýƵ’s 2024-25 Performing Arts Series, which will feature music ranging from chamber music to jazz and will include a return performance on April 4, 2025, from the two-time Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, which features ýƵ voice professor Estelí Gomez.
Tickets for Memorial Chapel performances are $30/adults, $25/seniors; tickets for Harper Hall performances are $15/adults, $10/seniors; all are free for students with a school ID. Season tickets are "create your own" series of four or more concerts, with a 15% discount. All performances are open to the public. ýƵ’s box office is reachable at 920-832-6749 or by email at boxoffice@lawrence.edu.