Bang on a Can

Steven Schick has championed contemporary percussion music for the past thirty years as a performer and teacher and commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works. He has performed on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival. He has recorded on SONY Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI, Neuma and Cantaloupe Records and is a Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2006 Schick had three important releases: the book, “The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams;”