Third Coast Percussion

Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy Award-winning American percussion ensemble, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The group, composed of Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore, specializes in new music/contemporary classical music and is known for its touring and recording activities. Third Coast Percussion was the Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center from 2013-2018. They are the first ensemble at the University of Notre Dame to create a permanent and progressive ensemble residency program at the center. The ensemble performs multiple recitals annually as part of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Presenting Series season. Currently they are the ensemble-in-residence at Denison University. The album Third Coast Percussion | Steve Reich won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, becoming the first percussion group to win in a chamber music category. Third Coast Percussion has released albums on the Mode, New Focus, New Amsterdam, and Cedille record labels. The quartet endorses and performs exclusively with Pearl/Adams Musical Instruments, Zildjian Cymbals, Remo Drumheads, and Vic Firth sticks and mallets.

Glass: Aguas da Amazonia - 2025-01-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Currents / Volume 3 - 2024-06-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Accent Clouds: Avantgarde Advertising 1 - 2024-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Third Coast Percussion - Cinematic Marimba - 2024-03-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Between Breaths - 2023-09-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Heaven We Need - 2023-05-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Currents / Volume 2 - 2023-05-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Currents / Volume 1 - 2022-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Perspectives - 2022-05-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Archetypes - 2021-03-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Quartered - 2020-06-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Fields - 2019-10-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Perpetulum: Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars, Third Coast Percussion - 2019-03-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Paddle to the Sea - 2018-02-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Philippe Manoury: The Book of Keyboards - 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Jeff Herriott: The Stone Tapestry - 2017-02-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood - 2016-02-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Unknown Symmetry - 2013-07-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Cage: The Works for Percussion, Vol. 2 - 2012-06-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Sunny X - 2023-01-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Perspective: III. Derivative - 2022-03-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Sonorous Earth: III. Mantra (Live) - 2022-03-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Donnacha Dennehy: Surface Tension & Disposable Dissonance - 2019-06-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Augusta Read Thomas: Qi for Percussion Quartet Playing Two Marimbas - 2017-09-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Resounding Earth - 2013-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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