Lee Hinkle - Modern American Percussion Concerti (2024)

Owing to the collaboration and performance of hundreds of students, faculty, and staff collaborators, the Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra, the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra, and the Penn State University Wind Ensemble perform alongside Lee Hinkle to acclaim the percussion concerti of three modern American composers. Hinkle meets the evolving modal complexity of Maurice Wright’s Concertpiece for Marimba and Orchestra with the same central drumset vivacity that breathes life into Evan Ziporyn’s Impulse Control, while still saving space for the solemn anthem layered in the rich solo instrumentation of Steven Stucky’s Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra. Whether on marimba, drumset, or any percussive tool between, Hinkle shines solo in the seven-year cumulation of a monumental musical undertaking, coming together as MODERN AMERICAN PERCUSSION CONCERTI. This project was made possible in part by a Faculty Research Grant from the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture.

Tracklist
Wright, Maurice: Concertpiece for Marimba and Orchestra
01 - Concertpiece for Marimba and Orchestra_ I. Vivo
02 - Concertpiece for Marimba and Orchestra_ II. Adagio
03 - Concertpiece for Marimba and Orchestra_ III. Brillante
Stucky: Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra
04 - Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra_ I. Energico
05 - Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra_ II. Moderato delicato, quasi senza tempo
06 - Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra_ III. Vivace
07 - Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra_ IV. Grave (To the Victims of September 11, 2001)
08 - Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra_ V. Gioioso
Ziporyn: Impulse Control (Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble)
09 - Impulse Control_ 1
10 - Impulse Control_ 2