Red Fish Blue Fish

by Steven Schick

red fish blue fish is the resident ensemble of percussionists of the University of California, San Diego. The group serves as a laboratory for the exploration of new work for percussion and tours this work regularly. red fish blue has played in New York on the Bang on a Can Festival (at Lincoln Center and the Henry Street Settlement), the Agora Festival (Paris), the Centro des Bellas Artes (Mexico City), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and as a regularly featured ensemble on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series, sharing a concert with percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. In 2006 red fish blue fish released a 3 CD set of the percussion music of Iannis Xenkis to great critical acclaim. Two DVDs -- of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and of Roger Reynolds's Sanctuary -- will be released by Mode Records in 2010.

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