The Music of Lucia Dlugoszewski: Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Dustin Donahue

Australian percussionist Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and UMBC percussion faculty Dustin Donahue present the enigmatic work of Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000).

A renowned composer for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dlugoszewski spent a lifetime searching for radical new ways of making sound. Her work of the 1950s celebrated the magical sounds of everyday objects. She later invented hundreds of percussion instruments designed to create delicate and color textures of sound and she developed a system of unconventional piano techniques that she referred to as the “timbre piano.” By the time of her death in 2000, Dlugoszewski’s music was largely unpublished and unrecorded, and her invented instruments in disrepair. Lloyd-Jones and Donahue have undertaken a reconstruction process, working through her archives and in collaboration with performers of her music, to bring this historic and evocative music to life again.

The program will feature:
Song for the Poetry of Everyday Sounds (1952)
Everyday Sounds for brIght by e.e. cummings (1953)
Separated Music for Rates of Speed (1958)
Separated Music for Delicate Accidents (1958)
Radical Quidditas for an Unborn Baby (1991)

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones is a multiform musician, passionate about performance, research, and education. Praised as “captivating” (San Diego Union-Tribune), Lloyd-Jones has performed professionally across Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania, presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and held residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada. Active across many genres, Rebecca has performed on the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in conjunction with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight marathon new-music festival, at the BBC Proms, Concertgebouw Concert Hall, and The National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. Lloyd-Jones has performed with the PARTCH ensemble, ensemble red fish blue fish, Hong Kong based percussion quintet Up:Strike Project and is the current Artistic Director of Synergy Percussion. Lloyd-Jones holds the position of Lecturer at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University and is a Marimba One Education Artist.

Dustin Donahue is a percussionist dedicated to chamber music and contemporary music performance. He is a member of the Grammy award-winning Partch Ensemble, a group specializing in the music and instruments of Harry Partch and he co-directs Wasteland, an organization dedicated to fostering experimental chamber music in southern California. He performs across the United States with groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, the Brightwork Ensemble, and ECHOI. He appears on recordings for Decca, Mode, Naxos, New Focus, Populist, and Stradivarius Records. He is assistant professor of percussion at UMBC.

$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students. Tickets will be available late January 2025.

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