Critical Acclaim...
“Zigurat Exterior” features the Youngstown Percussion Collective and Saxophone Quartet, Glenn Schaft, music director, and they sure sound like they’re having a great time. Hartford Courant, 8/19/09
The Youngstown Percussion Collective (YPC) is proud to announce the world premiere recording of Ziggurat (exterior) which appears on the 2008 release Rainbow Jimmies by New York based percussionist/composer John Hollenbeck.
YPC is a student organization dedicated to the advancement of the percussive arts and is advised by Dr. Glenn Schaft, Director of Percussion Studies at Youngstown State University.
In 2007 the YPC, in collaboration with the YSU Saxophone Studio (Dr. James Umble - director) and the YSU Jazz Society, commissioned John Hollenbeck to compose a work; for four saxophonists and five percussionists. Ziggurat received its world premiere by the YSU student ensemble for the John Hollenbeck Showcase Concert at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in October 2007.
The Youngstown premiere was presented at the DeYor Center for the Performing Arts and subsequently recorded at Tune Town Studios in Newton Falls, OH. The entire project, which included a John Hollenbeck clinic, was made possible by YSU student fundraising.
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