Ferry has been a guest artist at dozens of universities as well as the Zeltsman Marimba Festival in New Brunswick, NJ, and has stepped in as a guest percussionist with acclaimed ensembles Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Dal Niente, and Eighth Blackbird. He is on faculty at The New School and Juilliard Evening Division, and also runs a music school for incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY.Īcclaimed as “the ingenious percussionist Peter Ferry,” ( Chicago Sun-Times), Peter Ferry is a young American percussion soloist re-imagining classical performances around the world through contemporary repertoire projects and innovative artistic collaborations. His percussion music has been performed by over 250 percussion ensembles all over the world. He has performed his music with Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, as well as Alkemie Early Music Ensemble, Projeto Arcomusical, the Lucerne Festival Academy, and as a member of the book-club-band Oracle Hysterical. Here’s a glimpse of the performance!Įlliot Cole is a composer and “charismatic contemporary bard” ( New York Times) whose music “evokes sparkling icicles of sound” ( Rolling Stone). Performances by over two dozen groups from around the United States were live-streamed continuously for 9 hours on June 21st. In 2020, when the original plans for the premiere were upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cole and Ferry created a special online version of the composition. * These performances generously supported by the Music Performance Trust Fund Windsor, Ontario (Willistead Park) – 8:00 PMīalter Mallets for Flowerpot Music generously provided by: