The Performing Arts Trail series, presented by Trail & District Arts Council, brings you Percussiano 3.
Percussiano 3 is a veritable pageant for the eye and the ear bringing together a panoply of percussion instruments with one piano. The two hands of percussionist Rod Thomas Squance and the four hands of Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann join to perform a six-handed musical marvel. With their dazzling array of instruments and brilliant display of virtuosity, Percussiano3 deliver all of the excitement of a percussion ensemble without losing the classical touch of a traditional concert, presenting great masterpieces and unique transcriptions for percussion and piano. Their repertoire spans across musical styles and periods and includes works by composers like Bach, Schubert, Ravel, Chabrier, Copland, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Brubeck, Saint Saëns as well as their own original compositions.
Get a taste of the show in these video performances. bit.ly/3vbFRep
The Bergmanns have performed in recital and in orchestral concerts, as well in music festivals, internationally for over two decades. The duo’s love for music covers a wide range, including many of their own arrangements and compositions. Recent tours have seen the Bergmanns onstage with two-piano performances on grand piano. The Bergmann Duo have recorded for CBC, the ARD in Germany and for National Public Radio. Their own CDs have been recorded on labels for Koch International Classics, CordAria, Arktos, Naxos, and Brilliant Classics (including two releases featuring Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, arr. Marcel Bergman, plus highlighting pieces composed by Marcel for multiple pianos.) The duo performed with the International Piano Quartet (as founding members) and recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces, directed by Robert Craft, at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
Recipients of many international awards, both Elizabeth and Marcel devote time to other aspects of the music industry. Teaching credits include Mount Royal University, Calgary and University of Calgary, and The Banff Centre for the Arts. The Bergmanns are Artistic Directors of a music series in White Rock, Surrey as well as for the concert series at the Langley Community School.
The Bergmanns are joined on tour by percussionist Rod Thomas Squance, who has dazzled audiences across Canada and worldwide. He has received rave reviews for his exciting technique and captivating musicianship. Whether it be in the style of jazz, world music, classical, or contemporary Rod performs internationally as a soloist and as a freelance percussionist in a variety of settings, including chamber and orchestral.
Rod Squance has performed with many stellar artists including Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project; Paquito de Rivera, clarinetist; Dong-Won Kim, Korean traditional percussionist; Kojiro Umezaki, erhuist Yu Hongmei (shakuhachi players), and Prafulla Athalye, Sandeep Das and Abbas Janmohammed (tabla players). Rod performs for CBC Radio often, on both national radio and television broadcasts, and is as ‘at home’ with jazz (playing a jazz vibraphone) as he is with classical music.
Rod holds his doctoral degree from the University of Miami and is a scholar of Balinese gender wayang music, having studied and researched Balinese music (gender wayang) with I Ketut Sukayana in Sukawati village, Bali. Performance of Indian classical music is top-ranked among Squance’s talents – Hindustani raga, using the marimba, with Prafulla Athalye (Mumbai tabla player). Other music styles studied include Afro-Cuban, Chinese and Brazilian music. For many years, Squance studied with Canadian pedagogue and renowned violinist, Thomas Rolston.
Mr. Squance teaches at The University of Calgary (ethnomusicology and percussion) and has served on the faculty of The Banff Centre for the Arts.
The Performing Arts Trail series is sponsored by Teck Trail Operations. With funding support from the BC Arts Council, the Government of British Columbia, and the BC Touring Council. This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada. / Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
2 x 45 min sets + intermission
3 Show Series Pass: $75 **Don't miss out on this great offer. Limited numbers. Works out at only $25 a ticket! **
Individual Adult Ticket: $30.00
Individual Ticket for Student: $15
Reserved Seating.
Series passes are only available by phone and in person. Individual tickets available at thebailey.ca , by calling 250-368-9669 or dropping into the Bailey Box Office at 1501 Cedar Ave., Trail.
Shows in the Performing Arts Trail series include:
Redsky: Trace on Thursday Feb 24, 2022, 7:30 pm, Bailey Theatre
Montreal Guitar Trio and California Guitar Trio on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 7:30 pm, Bailey Theatre
Please be aware:
Covid-19 Safety Protocols
- All shows are capped at 50% capacity to allow for distancing and safer conditions.
- Anyone must prove full vaccination with of an approved COVID-19 vaccine to enter the venue. We will only accept the Vaccine Passport (with QR code and name) as proof of vaccination in either digital or printed format.
- We also require a piece of valid government photo ID to be presented, such as a B.C. driver's licence or BC Services Card, a Passport, or Photo ID issued by another province or territory.
- Those aged 18 years of age or under are not required to show government photo ID but are required to present proof of vaccination.
- Masks required at all times in the building.
- All the above is subject to change depending on the COVID Climate, BC Provincial Health Orders and Interior Health Orders.