April 14, 2012

7:00pm - Concert Talk
7:30pm - Performance

The voices of Masterworks join with Gary Gibson’s steel drum band to perform the newly commissioned In the Shadows of the Forest. Based in the folklore of Trinidad, the nine-movement work premiered to glowing reviews in Houston in 2010, and in Virginia at the PANorama Steel Band Festival in May of 2010. Musical forms including classical, soca, samba, calypso, ska, and cha cha, challenge the choir to sing in classical, gospel and jazz styles for a unique musical experience.

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Guest Artists: Gary Gibson, Seattle composer and his 8-piece steel drum band

Gary Gibson is known internationally as a performer and composer of progressive music for the steel pan, and is one few musicians who have brought the steel pan successfully into traditional music environments. He both honors the steel pan’s origins and carries its instrumental potential well outside its Caribbean identity.

A percussionist since age 5, Gary has broad musical experience as performer, producer, and recording artist. He has been drummer/percussionist in Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater orchestra, section percussionist with musicians of the Seattle Symphony for film-score recording, and jazz performer on drum set and vibraphone. On the jazz faculty at Cornish College of the Arts for 8 years, Gary continues as a music educator in workshops and clinics at college programs throughout the U.S.

Website: www.twotreesmusic.com

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Family Support Center of South Sound is a nonprofit family & child service agency  located in the heart of historic downtown Olympia.  Their mission: “Working Together to Strengthen all Families.”  Since 1992, Family Support Center’s programs and innovative partnerships have helped build strong, healthy, self sufficient families.   Programs include Parent Education, Family Resource Services, Supervised Visitation & Foster Child Support, Homeless Family Services, and a 30-bed Family Support Shelter for homeless children and families. 

Website: www.fscss.org

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