UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Transient Canvas, a contemporary, Boston-based bass clarinet and marimba duo, will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in the Recital Hall on Penn State's University Park campus.
Presented by Living Music and the Penn State School of Music, “Transient Canvas: Turn Your Hand” examines artistic resiliency in difficult times and features music written for Transient Canvas by Brittany J. Green, Sid Richardson, Yaz Lancaster, Yi-Ting Lu and Mikhail Johnson.
For more than a decade, Transient Canvas has been thrilling audiences with their “engaging musicality and easy sense of ensemble” (Cleveland Classical) and “superb” performances (Boston Globe).
Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and marimbist Matt Sharrock relish the creative potential of working with living composers, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others” and a commissioned repertoire of more than 90 works.
Since 2017, the duo has hosted an annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages while performing at the Alba Music Festival, Festival of New American Music, Music on the Edge, New Music Miami, and Red Note New Music Festival, among others.
Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Miami, New York University and Longy’s Divergent Studio. The duo’s three albums — “Right now, in a second,” “Sift” and “Wired” — were all released on New Focus Recordings.
For more information, visit the Transient Canvas website.