Carlsbad Music Festival Fundraiser

Like rhythmic sounds? Then the 10th Annual Benefit for the Carlsbad Music Festival might just be the perfect thing for you. Percussionist Steve Schick will be performing in the St. Michael’s by the Sea Chapel on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 6:30 PM.

Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and a Consulting Artist in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. He was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002, and from 2000 to 2004 served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, “red fish blue fish,” and in 2007 assumed the post of Music Director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.

Ticket for the performance cost $100 and can be purchased online right here. Following the performance there will be a reception at the Beach Terrace Inn. St. Michael’s by the Sea is located at 2775 Carlsbad Blvd. in Carlsbad.

Follow the jump for the official details or click here for a video of a Schink performance.The performance will be held in the beautiful 19th century
St. Michael’s by the Sea Chapel

followed by a reception at the oceanfront
Beach Terrace Inn.

All proceeds benefit the Festival.
Locations:

St. Michael’s by the Sea
2775 Carlsbad Blvd.
Carlsbad CA, 92008

Beach Terrace Inn
2775 Ocean St.
Carlsbad CA, 92008

Venues are located one block from each other. Click here to view on a map.

About Steven Schick:

Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, by commissioning and premiering more than one hundred new works for percussion.

Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and a Consulting Artist in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. He was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002, and from 2000 to 2004 served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, “red fish blue fish,” and in 2007 assumed the post of Music Director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.

Steven Schick recently released three important publications. His book on solo percussion music, “The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams,” was published by the University of Rochester Press; his recording of “The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies” by John Luther Adams was released by Cantaloupe Music; and, a 3 CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis, made in collaboration with red fish blue fish, was issued by Mode Records.