About Todd Doug Repertoire

Duo Repertoire

• Courtney Brown
  Losing Love in Magnetic Time marimba, vibraphone, and electronics
• Nathan Davis
  Diving Bell multiple amplified triangles
• Suzanne Farrin
  only was night two vibraphones and crotales
• Suzanne Farrin
  this mind made war two vibraphones
• Mauricio Kagel
  Rrrrrr….. theater percussion
• David Lang
  Table of Contents bells, shakers, woodblocks
• Paul Lansky
  Travel Diary marimba, vibraphone, crotales, glockenspiel, found items
• Matt McBane
  Binary marimba, vibraphone, drumsets
• Andy Pape
  CaDance multiple percussion set-ups
• Steve Reich
  Clapping Music clapping hands
• Steve Reich
  Nagoya Marimbas two marimbas
• Steve Reich
  Piano Phase two marimbas
• Stuart Saunders Smith
  When Music is Missing, Music Sings assorted, found items
• John Supko
  Straits marimba, vibraphone, flowerpots, drums, toys, almglocken
• John Fitz Rogers
  Once Removed two marimbas

Solo Repertoire

• Nathan Davis
  Simple Songs of Birth and Return mbira and live processing
• Michael Gordon
  XY multiple percussion
• David Lang
  String of Pearls two marimba
• David Lang
  Unchained Melody multiple percussion
• Michio Kitazume
  Side by Side multiple percussion
• Lukas Ligeti
  Thinking Songs marimba
• Tokuhide Niimi
  For Marimba 1 marimba
• Alejandro Viñao
  Khan Variations marimba
• Iannis Xenakis
  Rebonds multiple percussion

Todd Meehan

Todd Meehan currently serves as Associate Professor of Percussion at the Baylor University School of Music. He joined the faculty in 2003 and was recently honored with Baylor University’s 2010-2011 Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching. His performance endeavors are focused on the creation of new music for percussion. In this capacity he has commissioned works from Paul Lansky, David Lang, Charles Wuorinen, Alejandro Viñao, Tristan Perich, John Supko, Matt McBane, and Jonathan Leshnoff, among others, and has presented numerous premieres for solo and chamber percussion.

Todd began his professional life as a founding member of So Percussion, a group called “consistently impressive” by the New York Times and “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard. During his tenure with the group, Todd worked with composers Steve Reich, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn, and James Wood, among others. He can be heard on So Percussion’s debut, self-titled album released on Cantaloupe Records in 2003.

As an orchestral musician, Todd has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including performances under conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gunther Schuller, Robert Spano, Myung Whung Chung, and Peter Oundjian. He has performed with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Austin Lyric Opera, and is an alumnus of the Pacific Music Festival and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. He currently serves as Principal Timpanist of the Waco Symphony Orchestra.

Notable performance credits include multiple appearances at the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, Miller Theater’s Composer Portrait Series, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, and several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. Additionally, Todd has performed live on WNYC’s New Sounds Live hosted by John Schaefer. As a chamber musician he has performed alongside members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Todd has recorded on Cantaloupe Music, New World Records, Bridge Records, and Arizona University Recording’s Contemporary Composer and Performer Series.

Todd received his Doctor of Musical Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Master of Music degree from Yale University. He also pursued non-degree studies at DePaul University. His principal teachers include Robert van Sice, George Frock, James Ross, and Michael Green.

Todd Meehan plays Pearl Drums/Adams Musical Instruments, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, and Black Swamp accessories.

Todd’s website here

Douglas Perkins

Doug Perkins specializes in new works for percussion as a chamber musician and soloist. His performances have been described as “terrific, wide-awake and strikingly entertaining” by the Boston Globe and he has been declared a “percussion virtuoso ” by the New York Times. He has appeared at countless venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Spoleto USA Festival, the Ojai Festival, and the World Expo in Lisbon, Portugal.

Commissioning and collaborating to create new works is important to Doug. He has commissioned and premiered nearly 100 pieces and regularly works with composers David Lang, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, John Luther Adams, Christian Wolff, Nathan Davis, Larry Polansky, and Tristan Perich. He founded the percussion quartet So Percussion and the Meehan/ Perkins Duo and performs regularly with groups like Signal, eighth blackbird, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. He has also had the privilege to work with artists like Glenn Kotche, Matmos, Max Roach’s M’Boom, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and pianist Jeremy Denk.

Doug’s critically acclaimed recordings as a soloist, conductor, producer, and member of the Meehan/ Perkins Duo and So Percussion can be heard on the Bridge, Cantaloupe, New Focus, and New World labels. They have been called “brilliant” by the New York Times, named to numerous Top 10 of the Year lists, and the recording that he produced and performed with the Meehan/ Perkins Duo, “Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music”, was hailed as “immaculately played by the duo” by the BBC Music Magazine and “an engaging experience” by Gramophone. Fanfare Magazine perhaps best sums up the recording by stating “This is a must-hear for anyone remotely interested in the development of music in the past century and is strongly recommended.” Doug’s solo record, Simple Songs was just released in October on New Focus Recordings.

Lately, Doug has been organizing large-scale percussion events that encourage a sense of community and new ways of experiencing live music. His production of Iannis Xenakis’ Persephassa in and around Central Park Lake and John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit in New York City were named Top Ten Performances in 2010 and 2011 by the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Time Out NY. Alex Ross called Inuksuit at the Park Avenue Armory, “one of the most rapturous listening experiences of my life”.

Doug is the Director of the Chosen Vale International Percussion Seminar at the Center for Advanced Musical Studies and serves with eighth blackbird as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago. Additionally, he served on the faculty of Dartmouth College where he taught percussion and directed the Contemporary Music Lab and the concert series The Way to Go Out.

Doug received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees from Yale University, and his Doctorate from Stony Brook University. His principal percussion teachers were Jack DiIanni, Jim Culley, and Robert Van Sice.

He performs with Vic Firth Drumsticks and Mallets, Pearl/ Adams Musical Instruments, and Black Swamp Percussion accessories, Remo Drumheads, and Zildjian Cymbals.

http://www.dougperkins.com